Hungry pests can quickly damage your garden or landscape. In our area, rabbits and deer are the most common culprits. Alsip Home & Nursery carries a wide variety of effective products to sway these pesky animals along with insects and pests. Find these brands and more at Alsip Home & Nursery:
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Rodent Control
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Rabbit & Deer Bonide Repels-All® uses all natural ingredients to repel a variety of garden pests, including rabbits and deer. Among the most comprehensive animal repellents on the market, Repels-All® works in three ways: by sense of touch, taste and smell. It protects plants and property, including structures, for up to two months per application, and is rain fast after six hours. This product is not available at our St. John location due to restrictions from Indiana’s state chemist office. |
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Rabbit & Deer Continued Liquid Fence® Deer & Rabbit Repellent is another all natural repellent designed to stop deer and rabbits from eating your flowers, shrubs, plants, trees and vines. Liquid Fence is an environmentally safe and biodegradable solution to your deer and rabbit problems. This easy-to-use, long lasting spray is family and pet friendly so you can use it worry-free. And because it’s all natural, it doesn’t hurt the deer or rabbits. Using predator urines to repel garden pests is another effective alternative. All animals are born with an instinctive fear of their predators. Alsip Home & Nursery has a selection of coyote, bobcat and fox urines in liquid or granular form designed to exploit the survival instinct of these pests and drive them from the treated areas. |
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Humane Traps Alsip Home & Nursery also has a selection of humane traps to curb rabbit, squirrel and raccoon populations around your landscape. Using these traps enable you to safely capture the pest and release it unharmed at another location. Don’t forget to make sure that local ordinances permit the use of humane traps in your community. |
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Rats & MIce If you are bothered by mice or rats inside or outside your home, Alsip Home & Nursery has effective traps and baits to rid them from your property. |
Pest Control
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Japanese Beetles - Post Emergent
Japanese Beetles arrive in summer time and eat mostly roses but a lot of other deciduous shrubbery and are the adult form of lawn grubs. Alsip HOme & Nursery recommends to use the following:
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Slugs
Slugs are found in moist and dark areas, under leaves and generally affect hostas.
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Spider Mites
Use of broad-spectrum insecticides such as carbaryl (Sevin) may eliminate mite predators, allowing a rapid increase of mite numbers. Selective control of mites is available with miticides such as abamectin (Avid), bifenthrin (Talstar), dicofol (Kelthane), or Neem oil, insecticidal soap or a high purity horticultural oil. If you use a miticide, frequent chemical applications may be necessary and not very effective if plants are not also washed with water. When hosing off the plant, make sure to rinse the entire plant, top to bottom, as well as the undersides of the leaves using a hard spray of water. Once spider mites are knocked off of the plant, they can’t crawl back. The watering should be done in the morning or early evening so that the leaves can dry before nightfall. You don’t want to trade one scourge for another!
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Thrips Keep growing areas as weed-free as possible by pulling and bagging weeds that may harbor pests. Use of herbicides is not recommended because pests may survive and relocate to other crop plants. Develop a weed-free zone around the perimeter of the greenhouse to discourage thrips and other pests. Avoid wearing brightly colored clothing that may attract thrips and give them a free ride to uninfected locations. Neem oil, horticultural oil, hot pepper wax, insecticidal soaps, and garlic extracts are biorational pesticides that may provide some relief from thrips. Consult your local distributor to see which products are recommended for your situation and whether they are compatible with biological agents.
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Powdery Mildew
Powdery Mildew is a fungus that commonly affects roses, ninebark and other deciduous shrubs and perennials such as garden phlox.
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White Flies
Begin chemical control treatments in the garden as soon as you notice an infestation. Because insecticides are not effective against immature stages of whiteflies, applications need to be made every four days to kill adults before they begin to lay eggs for the next generation. Up to 7 applications may be needed to bring well-established infestations under control. Also, eliminate weeds in and around the garden that may harbor infestations. Malathion is the most readily available insecticide for whitefly control, but rotenone and nicotine sulfate may also be used.
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Mealy Bugs
Flushing mealybugs off leaves with water can provide some immediate relief, but rubbing off colonies with a cloth is recommended so crawlers are removed and/or crushed and not merely displaced. Insecticidal soaps and horticultural oils (when not phytotoxic) are most effective if they are applied underneath leaves, on pots, as well as areas surrounding plants where crawlers could migrate. Pesticides can provide short-term control, but mealybugs persist in hard-to-reach places so they are not recommended as a long-term solution. If pesticides are used, waiting at least two weeks before releasing biological control agents is advised.
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Aphids
Small numbers of individual colonies of Aphids on small plants can be crushed by hand or removed by pruning as they are found. In some cases, this may provide adequate control. Fatty acid salts or insecticidal soaps are very good against aphids. As with summer oils, they apparently work to disrupt insect cell membranes. They require direct contact with the insects and leave no residual effect. The aphids must be hit directly with spray droplets so that they can be absorbed into the insect's body.
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Tent Caterpillars & Bag Worms
Tent Caterpillars (pictures) come out mid-late summer. They usually affect deciduous trees and shrubs.
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Chlorosis
Chlorosis is essentially an iron deficiency within the plant. The symptoms are yellowing of the leaves and an overall sickly appearance.In shrubs & trees it is commonly found on birch and in annuals it is commonly found in petunias and calibrachoa.
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