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I have used the pressurized fogger pesticides in the garage, but does anyone make one for the garden?
My patch has developed an aphid problem and I cant get to EVERY leaf, especially all the undersides of the leaves.
A couple bug grenades I could toss out into the middle of the patch would sure make things easier.

9/19/2003 12:43:15 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Not that I'm aware of. The bombs for interior use would work BUT DON'T USE THEM. The inert carriers will destroy the leaves.

Try a systemic (Imidaclopriode) comined with a pyrethroid (permethrin) with a really good surfactant to speed things up.

Steve

9/19/2003 2:07:04 PM

Oz

i used a yard fogger.burgess type.

9/19/2003 3:44:26 PM

Garden

Thanks Tremor, but I think you may have mistaken me for a chemist. Smaller words and maybe a picture hahaha.
That yard fogger- does it really produce a fog, or is it like a mist? Would it be effective in contacting all surfaces of the plant (nooks/crannies/undersides of leaves?)

9/19/2003 4:19:18 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

An electric fogger would be cool. It's the aerosol cans that concern me. The proplellant will hurt the plants.
MCP, What are you putting in the Burgess? 1% Permethrin?

9/19/2003 11:13:11 PM

Wood River, Nebraska

Steve, do you recommend a surfactant be used with everything including foliar fertilizers? What is a "good" one to use?
dave

9/25/2003 7:12:00 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

The best I've ever used is the new Hawkeye we're selling. It's a true Organo-silicone surfactant. Helena Chemical has a similar offering called Silwet 77. Those are the only 2 I've used or know of. Hawkeye isn't cheap though. Like $34.00 for a 2 quart bottle. YIKES!

Regular non-ionic Spreader Sticker works well enough in most cases though. In volume it can be had for only $17.00 a gallon. Even a single gallon is only like $20.00 I think.

Since we use so very little (teaspoon per gallon) to make our sprays lay out a LOT better, I recommend some sort of surfactant with every spray. It's just good cheap insurance. Plus it can make a sloppy spray job work just well enough to save your butt. And I believe there are at least a few world record wanna be pumpkins out there that never reached their full potential because a foliar disease halted growth too soon.

Steve

9/25/2003 9:28:41 PM

Wood River, Nebraska

Thanks again Steve, I don't know what we'd do without you.
dave

10/3/2003 2:52:17 PM

Oz

burgess sells a premix. it works by propane flames heating a coil of tubing. a trigger pump pushes the fluid up into the hot coil. the fluid flash steams.

10/4/2003 10:09:29 AM