Episode: Ten
Air Date: 1st November 2008
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane
Story Title: Vegetable Project

There is nothing better than having your very own veggie patch to supply your family with fresh, nutritious vegetables all year round. With enriched soil and a good water supply, there’s only one thing that can stop your vegetables growing healthily, and that is pests – eating holes through the foliage of your vegetables. Trevor shows you the best ay to control the pests, without using harmful chemicals.

Featured Product

Yates Derris Vegetable Dust

• Controls certain leaf chewing and sucking insects (aphids, thrips and caterpillars) on leafy vegetables, flowers and vines.
• Based on a natural plant root extract.
• Withholding period on edible crops only 1 day.
• Almost non-toxic to humans, bees and wildlife (except fish).
• Handy easy to use shaker pack.
• Easy to use shaker pack – no mixing or spraying required.
• Contains Rotenone (derris), which is a contact and stomach poison which paralyses the heart and respiratory system of the insect.
• Dust at 7-10 day intervals on upper and lower surfaces of foliage, commencing at seedling stage. Do not apply if rain is expected or on windy days.
• The product usually remains effective for 7 days except that after rain it is necessary to dust again.
• Do not apply near dams, ponds or water supplies. Do not apply later than 1 day before harvest. Toxic to fish.

Contact
Yates Australia
1 Gow Street,
Padstow, 2211
NSW Australia
Phone: 1800 224 428
Website: http://www.yates.com.au/