Garden Dust
When I first planted my vegetable garden, I had my Dad come over and check it out. He is the Garden Doctor, as far as I’m concerned. He was thrilled with my new garden and gave some pieces of advice for the season.
One of those pieces of advice concerned garden pests and diseases that can hurt my plants. Mostly such insects as aphids, cabbage worms, harlequin bugs, bean beetles, Japanese beetles, stink bugs, thrips, and more. And diseases like bacterial spot, blights, and powdery mildew.
My natural question was, “Well, Garden Doctor Dad – how do I control these things?? Can I?”
He told me about a product called “Garden Dust” that he uses on his plants (and flowers) every year to keep the insects and diseases at bay. He told me to apply the garden dust the very MINUTE I start seeing holes in the leaves of my plants – - because that generally means there is some bug.. or two or three.. munching away at my precious vegetables and flowers!
Today, in my vegetable garden – I noticed that my pole bean plants had quite a few little holes munched in the leaves – - so, luckily, I had followed my Dad’s advice and purchased a few containers of Garden Dust. I went to the garage and got the container and ‘dusted’ all my plants in the garden.
Hopefully, this will now keep the little munchers at bay and AWAY from my plants!
June 1, 2006 - 3:30 pm
Interesting — I’m curious to find out how this stuff works for you. If it does work, we might get some for our garden, too!
Genie
The Inadvertent Gardener
June 1, 2006 - 6:04 pm
Hi Genie – thanks for stopping by!
It’s been a day since I used the garden dust, and I’m not seeing any new munchy holes in the leaves.
Interesting – I ‘dusted’ my hibiscus plant, too… when I looked at it, the leaves had a BUNCH of ants on them… right after I applied teh dust to the leaves – - those ants high tailed it off those leaves like Superman away from kryptonite lool
Good luck!
June 1, 2006 - 6:40 pm
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June 10, 2006 - 10:10 am
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