PLANT PROTECTION
INTRODUCTION
The assignment is based on the following;
• Pest and disease control measures and legislative control practices.
• The effects, reproduction and control of weeds.
1 Describe five specific situations where pest and disease control measures are required.
• Red Spider Mite; Red spider mites infest a wide range of plants. These small mites are a sap sucking insect, found mainly on the underside of leaves and will spin very fine webs. Leaves will wilt and curl in at the edges.
• Leather Jackets; these are the larvae of the daddy long legs, live just below the soil surface destroying the root systems of grass. Yellowish or brown dying round patches will appear in the grass.
• Potato Blight; brown spots will appear on …show more content…
There are few chemical solutions to the blight control but Copper Sulphate is one sprayed on the leaves. Disease resistant crops planting out late in the season or early. Crop rotation and good hygiene around beds. Maximum spacing when planting and earthling up stems to reduce the attack to the tubers. If you have are attacked remove the foliage and burn or bury well away from the site. Same if the tubers are hit dig out burn or bury do not compost the plants.
• Slugs; the controls for slugs can be the use of copper wire strips around the tops of raised beds, salt granules sea salts, course sand around the base of plants, beer traps, watering with a solution of nematodes, chemically impregnated mats that are placed around the base of the plants, picking of and destroying.
• Club Foot; disease free sources, give plants head start by planting on to large containers before planting out, crop rotation, raising soil pH by liming will reduce the risk, good drainage in raised beds, good housekeeping on weed control, and also on all equipment used in the garden. Club root is a fungal infection there are no chemical treatment’s the infection can attack when the soil is warm and moist mid-summer to late autumn. The spores can contaminate the soil for up to 20
INTRODUCTION
The assignment is based on the following;
• Pest and disease control measures and legislative control practices.
• The effects, reproduction and control of weeds.
1 Describe five specific situations where pest and disease control measures are required.
• Red Spider Mite; Red spider mites infest a wide range of plants. These small mites are a sap sucking insect, found mainly on the underside of leaves and will spin very fine webs. Leaves will wilt and curl in at the edges.
• Leather Jackets; these are the larvae of the daddy long legs, live just below the soil surface destroying the root systems of grass. Yellowish or brown dying round patches will appear in the grass.
• Potato Blight; brown spots will appear on …show more content…
There are few chemical solutions to the blight control but Copper Sulphate is one sprayed on the leaves. Disease resistant crops planting out late in the season or early. Crop rotation and good hygiene around beds. Maximum spacing when planting and earthling up stems to reduce the attack to the tubers. If you have are attacked remove the foliage and burn or bury well away from the site. Same if the tubers are hit dig out burn or bury do not compost the plants.
• Slugs; the controls for slugs can be the use of copper wire strips around the tops of raised beds, salt granules sea salts, course sand around the base of plants, beer traps, watering with a solution of nematodes, chemically impregnated mats that are placed around the base of the plants, picking of and destroying.
• Club Foot; disease free sources, give plants head start by planting on to large containers before planting out, crop rotation, raising soil pH by liming will reduce the risk, good drainage in raised beds, good housekeeping on weed control, and also on all equipment used in the garden. Club root is a fungal infection there are no chemical treatment’s the infection can attack when the soil is warm and moist mid-summer to late autumn. The spores can contaminate the soil for up to 20