Episode: Ten
Date: 10th May 2008
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane
Story Title: Mitre 10 Plan- Control Common Garden Pests

Winter is all about the rugs and uggs but it also means that the garden nasties want to join in on the fun too with the colder months attracting bugs and insects into your home. Keep those winter nasties at bay as The Garden Gurus show you how to effectively keep them away for good!
Identifying and controlling garden pests – with a little help from Mitre 10.

The Mitre10 Plans are an easy to follow guide to achieving a 10/10 result, outlining all the tools you will need for the job, including a material checklist.
All dedicated gardeners no doubt long for a garden free of pests so that carefully nurtured flowers and vegetables survive without blemish.  That’s where this MitrePlan can help by enabling you to more easily identify and treat a range
of pest problems.

For more information visit your local Mitre10 store or download a detailed MitrePlan by the link below;
‘Control Common Garden Pests’.
For more great home and garden ideas visit you local Mitre10 store or visit their website:
www.mitre10.com.au

Featured Product: Yates Success Naturalyte Insect Control
Controls various caterpillars on fruit and vegetables.
Features

• Low toxic formulation.
• Contains spinosad, which is derived from naturally occurring beneficial soil bacteria.
• Spinosad has translaminar movement, which means it moves into the leaf, making the active resistant to rain and sunlight once the spray has dried.
• Spinosad is effective through both contact and stomach action where the pest is killed via spraying directly or where they ingest the plants foliage that has been sprayed.
• Controls a wide range of caterpillars plus pear and cherry slug.
• Controls insects that may have become resistant to other insecticides.
• Non-residual, broken down by sunlight and soil microbes into carbon dioxide and water.
• Winner of 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Award for its favourable environmental human and health profile.
• Child resistant cap.
• Easy-to-use measure bottle.

How It Works
Natural insecticide, with efficacy equivalent to synthetic products. It has activity by both contact and ingestion. Affects the nervous system of the insect.

Directions for use
Ensure that all foliage, including undersides of leaves is sprayed. Apply in the cool of the early morning or late evening. Insects will stop feeding immediately but may take up to three days to die.

Precautions
Do not spray when shade temperatures are near 28°C. Do not spray if rain is expected within 6 hours. Do not spray when bees are foraging. Do not apply when soil is dry or to moisture stressed plants.

Contact
Yates
A Division of Orica Australia Ltd Pty
Locked Bag 6504,
Milperra NSW 1891
Ph: 1800 224 428
Website: www.yates.com.au