How To Safely Spray Insecticide

If you are a novice to raising fruit trees or bushes, you will have to learn how to protect them from pests. Lots of people do not like the notion of using insecticides, but it is fairly problematic to prevent substantial numbers of bugs descending on your crops without using them.

There are various concerns about the use of pesticides ranging from worrying about killing non-harmful insects to poisoning oneself with the insecticide that may remain on the fruit. In the rest of this piece, we will endeavour to deal with your worries whether they be altruistic or selfish.

Firstly, we will dispense with your concerns concerning poisoning yourself with the insecticide on your fruit. There is practically no danger of poisoning yourself with modern pesticides, if you follow the instructions on the label. 

The pesticide will have a short to medium term life in the open air, so that if you spray at the time you are told to, it will have dissipated by the time you come to eat the fruit. You ought to always wash fruit immediately before eating it anyway.

Hand-held spray guns are simple to fill with the right concentration of insecticide and, normally, water. They are easy to use and you can direct the spray precisely where you would like to. However, this is solely good for use on bushes and dwarf trees. It is not a good idea to climb trees with one hand holding a sprayer.

Therefore, if you spray mature fruit trees, you will have to use either a hose pipe or a power spray to dispense the pesticide. In the majority of these systems, you attach a bottle of the pesticide to the end of the hose and the water passing over the top of the bottle sucks up some pesticide.

This is a fairly good system, but is rather haphazard with regards to the concentration of the pesticide solution that you dispense to your fruit trees. These systems work best with a high water pressure, but in some regions water pressure is not constant and so neither is the concentration of pesticide.

Therefore, you have to pay particular attention to the insecticide as you may not warranty the water pressure from mains water pipes. Professional growers use power hoses to get around this problem. The amateur has to use wits in the kind of research into the properties of the chemicals, especially if the water pressure varies greatly..

In essence, you will need  a pesticide that has a quite wide tolerance of safety and effectiveness. These details will be on the container and so it is crucial to read the directions carefully and follow them to the letter. You need to pay attention to the recommendations for your own safety too, because the concentration might rise and fall without notice.

The thing to concentrate on when spraying is to cover the whole tree but without spraying any area two times, because that increases the chances of drip. Dripping not just wastes insecticide but it covers the region under the tree killing insects that may not be harming your tree – collateral damage. This is very difficult to do and will take practice.

A few last suggestions. Dripping might also cause the insecticide to get drawn up into the tree by the roots. Be attentive to the direction of the wind, so attempt to spray on a calm day. Most pesticides are lethal to fish, which is another reason to take the direction of the wind into account.

Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on a number of topics, but is currently concerned with the Home Ant Infestation.. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bugs Infestation.