"Ashley Hunt" wrote in message
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Well you can also use insecticide soap.


In hot dry weather and drought conditions these soaps can harm the plants as
can the light summer ag oils.

Marie Dodge said:



"Ashley Hunt" wrote in
message
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Well you can also use insecticide soap.


In hot dry weather and drought conditions these soaps can harm the
plants as
can the light summer ag oils.

Which is why my practice when I use a soap spray is to do it in the coolest
part of the day, then rinse the plants with fresh water afterwards.

Soap kills very quickly. Hit the pests with a good soaking spray of soap
solution, then come back to the start of your spray circuit and do a rinse,
and the pest will have died and the foliage damage should be minimal.

I can absolutely vouch for this with earwigs, aphids, and leaf beetles.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

After enlightenment, the laundry.

"Marie Dodge" wrote in message
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"Ashley Hunt" wrote in message
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Well you can also use insecticide soap.


In hot dry weather and drought conditions these soaps can harm the plants
as can the light summer ag oils.

Reading these posts I can see how lucky we've been all these years. Seldom
had to spray for anything. Gardens thrived. Plants produced abundantly.
Almost no "pest" problems. All I had to was plant them, mulch and water
them.... and pick baskets full of clean almost free veggies. By the time
blight was getting a good start on some of the tomatoes, frost finished
them off.

Yes you are right every insecticide must be use with care.