On 27/06/2013 16:16, Baz wrote:
It seems to me that in order to have fresh homegrown fruit and vegetables
on the table it is sometimes neccessary to use some chemical control.
This has been interpreted as pesticide, and yes I use pesticide when I have
to but not by any means my first line.
I would like to know how others in this group go about getting rid of
insects. For example my 2 cherry trees have been infested with blackfly
and I dowsed them with liquid soap to no avail and had to use Provaro in
the end. Problem solved. Likewise with whitefly on the brassicas and moth
on the peas.
In a nutshell, nothing seems to work. Just pesticide. That works.

Baz

I just use insecticides when I have to, at present we have loads of lady
birds around so I am busy moving them around the place.
Things like red spider I do spray as soon as I see them, I can't wait
for biological thingies to arrive as they can take up to 10 days.
In the "Old days" we sprayed everything every 2 weeks, one week for
pests and the other with fungicide.
It gets me you have all these "Holier than thou" who would never(So they
say) spray with anything, but if they so much as find an aphid on a
lettuce they bought in a supermarket they are the first to complain.
David @ a damp side of Swansea Bay