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Good Bug Power Meal Garden Size 1/2 lb

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Good Bug Power Meal Garden Size 1/2 lb

Good Bug Power Meal - Garden Size - 1/2 lb Good Bug Power Meal – Garden Size – 1/2 lb

“Keep your Beneficial insects fed and at home… AND attract native bugs to your garden or farm with ARBICO’s Good Bug Power Meal! ARBICO’s Good Bug Power Meal is a food supplement that contains proteins, fats, calcium, phosphorus, fiber, 14 amino acids, 8 vitamins, nitrogen free extract, lactose, and sucrose for your beneficials. Apply it as a sprayable powder on flowers and crops, either indoors or outdoors. Can also be used directly as a dry powder or as the nectar source in butterfly feeders. Application rate: 8 oz. size is enough to treat 3,000 sq. ft. when mixed with 1 gallon of water or mix 1 tablespoon with 1 quart water for smaller quantities. For an acre, mix a ½ lb of meal in 5-10 gallons of water and apply to one half of the acreage being fed.”


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July 1st, 2009 at 6:09 pm

18,000 Ladybug Beetles Hippodamia convergens Large Garden

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18,000 Ladybug Beetles Hippodamia convergens Large Garden

“18,000 Ladybug Beetles, Hippodamia convergens – Large Garden”

“Large Garden Size: 18,000 LadybugsTreats up to 10,000 sq ft Preferred food: The most common of all beneficial insects, these voracious predators feed on aphids, chinch bugs, asparagus beetle larvae, thrips, alfalfa weevils, bean thrips, grape root worms, Colorado potato beetle larvae, whitefly, and mites, as well as many other soft-bodied insects and eggs. Extremely cost effective, too! Method of shipment, biology and release rates: Ladybugs are shipped to you in the adult stage. Each adult consumes about 5,000 aphids. Within 8 to 10 days of release, each female ladybug lays 10-50 eggs daily on the underside of leaves. In 2-5 days the larvae emerge as dark alligator-like flightless creatures with orange spots. The larvae eat 50-60 aphids per day. After 21 days they pupate and adults emerge in 2-5 days, completing the cycle. Under ideal conditions (temperature 61-82 degrees F; ladybugs won’t fly when 55 degrees F or lower) several generations may be produced. If not released imme”


9,000 Live Ladybug Beetles Hippodamia convergens Medium Garden

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9,000 Live Ladybug Beetles Hippodamia convergens Medium Garden

“9,000 Live Ladybug Beetles Hippodamia convergens – Medium Garden”

“Medium Garden Size: 9,000 LadybugsTreats up to 5,000 sq ft Preferred food: The most common of all beneficial insects, these voracious predators feed on aphids, chinch bugs, asparagus beetle larvae, thrips, alfalfa weevils, bean thrips, grape root worms, Colorado potato beetle larvae, whitefly, and mites, as well as many other soft-bodied insects and eggs. Extremely cost effective, too! Method of shipment, biology and release rates: Ladybugs are shipped to you in the adult stage. Each adult consumes about 5,000 aphids. Within 8 to 10 days of release, each female ladybug lays 10-50 eggs daily on the underside of leaves. In 2-5 days the larvae emerge as dark alligator-like flightless creatures with orange spots. The larvae eat 50-60 aphids per day. After 21 days they pupate and adults emerge in 2-5 days, completing the cycle. Under ideal conditions (temperature 61-82 degrees F; ladybugs won’t fly when 55 degrees F or lower) several generations may be produced. If not released immed”


Dustin Mizer Garden Duster – Extension and Deflector

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Dustin Mizer Garden Duster – Extension and Deflector

Dustin Mizer Garden Duster - Extension and Deflector Dustin Mizer Garden Duster – Extension and Deflector“This hand-held crank applicator is the most popular on the market today for good reasons. The Dustin-Mizer spreader is made of high-impact resistant plastic with internal steel parts that last for years. The Dustin-Mizer is easy to clean, too. The smooth flowing hand crank gives the Dustin-Mizer the power of a 72 rpm blower without the pollution of an engine. A built-in 1/8 inch metal screen sifts powders for even application. The Dustin Mizer may be used to apply diatomaceous earth, garden dusts, and dry powder fertilizers or soil mixtures. Its design, which includes a special deflector, applies an even surface coating to vegetation in gardens, lawns, and trees, ensuring full coverage and a correct distribution of material over and under the treated areas. This duster is a great answer to applying treatments in greenhouses where it may be difficult or too time consuming to reach all the plants. The Dustin Mizer can also be used to apply diatomaceous earth or other pesticide dusts”

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June 4th, 2009 at 10:29 am

Finding White Mold In Your Gardens

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If you are a lover of houseplants or just like to grow all kinds of plants, then you need to know of some things that can hurt these plants. They might be wilt, white mold, or other kinds of viruses that could attack your plants and kill them.

If you have had a lot of rainy weather or hot humid weather, you will begin to notice that your plants will appear to be sick or wilted over. They might even stop growing, and this could mean that they are becoming sick or might die. You might even get a fluffy white mold to appear on the stems of your herbaceous plants as well. If this happens, you can tell if the plant is beyond help by slicing the stem of the plant and check for signs of irregular sizes of hard black sclerotic that will be found in the tan area of the stem. If this plant has this tan area on the stem, the white mold will also be there. These two things on your plants will most definitely kill this plant.

You can also have a viral disease show up that will look like ring spots, mosaic, or leaf curl. If this plant has a virus, its leaves will be light or dark green in color. If you water these plants too much or too often, you can cause these problems to show up and you will know it by the way your plants react. This white mold can sometimes look pretty to some, but it will be a killer of your plants.

When you go to plant your flower bed or your garden, you will want to check the landscape to make sure that your flowers won’t be left standing in water if it rains. You will need to run water on this ground to make sure that the excess water will run off, leaving the ground just damp. When you plant flowers, you will want to plant them with enough room in between each of them so that your flowers aren’t fighting for their food and water, and nature will be feeding them.

You can have a very beautiful garden that will be the envy of your neighbors and friends, and all it will take is a little of your time. You will want to make sure to check your plants everyday to make sure that nothing is there to hurt these plants. If there is any threat, take care of it right away.

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November 7th, 2008 at 2:39 am