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Originally Posted by Gardeneer
Thanks Bill.
The other day that I was at Lowes, I asked for Permethrin. But they didn't have it.
They had DE ( powder ? )in a bag. I read the active ingredients : It was mostly silica.
The I googled and here is what I learned:
My Stink Bug problem, is not that bad I cannot even find one. But they keep sucking the juice from couple of beefsteak variety that is ripening.
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Lowes is not the best place to find some things. I just went out a couple of days ago to a farm supply store and got a quart of 10% Permethrin by Hi Yield that is for livestock and vegetable gardens. It only cost me 18 dollars and should last for a few years unless I have another summer of spider mites like last year.
You can get food grade DE online fairly cheaply if you shop a bit. I bought a 50 lb bag of high quality food grade DE several years ago for a very reasonable price and the supplier had lots of different sizes available. I went with the large bag because I use it around all my structures for fleas and roaches and have been using it as a dust and as a spray in the garden. I think you really want to get the food grade because it is so fine and goes into solution in water very easily and is very low in silica content.
Bill