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July 5, 2012 - GrowOrganic
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New organic gardeners are often most enthusiastic about and most worried about organic pest control. These gardeners want to stop using chemical sprays on their plants—on the other hand, they’re afraid insects and diseases will run amok if they can’t blast away with the conventional poisons. Organic pest control One of the major differences between organic gardening and conventional gardening is in pest control. Conventional gardeners often wait until an insect, animal or disease…
With Integrated Pest Management or IPM, pest control does not  mean waiting until June and then grabbing the most toxic spray around to wipe out the summer pests in your garden. You’d probably wipe out the honeybees, ladybugs, and all the other beneficial insects too. IPM is a system of pest control. Learn how you can use some easy preventive methods to keep diseases and pests at the lowest levels, with the least toxic methods. In our latest video, Tricia explains how Integrated Pest Management…

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Peggy Wells Says:
Jul 7th, 2012 at 3:01 pm

Perhaps you can help me with contact information for Young Industries, maker of the MP-5, which you featured in a recent video on fertilization.  I need to order bags for my MP-5, but none of the phone numbers I have are good.  How do you order bags?

Thank you,
Peggy Wells
Desert Spring Nursery
Albuquerque, NM

Charlotte from Peaceful Valley Says:
Jul 18th, 2012 at 3:51 pm

Peggy, We carry both the 5 gal. and 2 gal. replacement bags for the Young Mixer Proportioner http://www.groworganic.com/irrigation/fertilizer-injector.html Is that what you are looking for?

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