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Show Growing Your Own Vegetables flowers and shrubs. To control con-trol such pests as cutworms and wireworms before planting your carrots, tomatoes, toma-toes, peppers and many You should have little trouble making a list of vegetables veg-etables for your garden. Just be sure to remember that the location of your vegetable vegeta-ble garden should be chosen from the standpoints of soil, 1 drainage, sunlight and freedom free-dom from debris. Remember, too, that your garden should never be located lo-cated too close to the north side of buildings or too near shade trees or tall growing hedges. Growing your own vegetables vege-tables will not only give you - a sense of accomplishment, but you'll find that it's extremely ex-tremely satisfying to taste the fruits of your own labors. la-bors. But your efforts can easily be destroyed by such pesky insect pests as thrips, mites, army worms, aphids, leafhoppers, whiteflies, and many others. ' In order to achieve con trol of these insects you can use an insecticide such as Spectracide Garden Insect Dust with Diazinon. This dust is effective in control- ling many chewing and sucking insect pests that attack at-tack vegetables, fruits, roses, other vegetables apply evenly even-ly as a broadcast treatment over the surface of the soil. Immediately after spreading, spread-ing, mix thoroughly with the soil to a depth of six to eight inches. The application is a half pound per 225 square feet. For foliage application, apply dust at first signs of insects and repeat as necessary. nec-essary. Growing your own vegetables vege-tables is a good way to keep rising food costs down, and preventing pests from nibbling nib-bling away at the money you save is certainly something some-thing you can control. |