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Pest Control
Integrated Pest Management Program
Soil Preparation:Landscapers give their plants and gardens a head start on pest problems by choosing the proper site, testing the soil, creating raised beds where necessary, and providing sufficient organic matter.
Planting:Landscapers plant plants that tolerate common problems, altering planting time and spacing to discourage certain diseases and insects.
Forecasting:Weather data is consulted to predict if and when pest outbreaks will occur. Treatments can then be properly timed, preventing garden damage and saving sprays.
Pest Trapping:Traps that are attractive to insects are used so that landscapers can pinpoint when the pest has arrived and decide whether control is justified.
Monitoring:Landscapers inspect representative areas of the grounds regularly to determine whether pests are approaching a damaging level.
Thresholds:Before treating, landscapers wait until pest populations reach a scientifically determined level that could cause economic damage. Until that threshold is reached, the cost of yield and quality loss will be less than the cost for control.
Cultural Controls:The pest's environment it then disrupted by turning under beds residues, sterilizing garden tools.
Biological Controls:It is necessary for landscapers to conserve the many beneficial natural enemies already at work. They import and use additional biologicals where effective.
Chemical Control:Landscapers select the most effective and appropriate pesticide and properly calibrate sprayers. They then verify that weather conditions will permit good coverage without undue drift.
Recordkeeping:Records of pest traps, weather and treatment are kept for use in pest management decisions.
-Copyrighted by Cornell University and the NYS IPM Program.
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Dave Greene Estate Care, Inc.
37 Ocean View Parkway - Southampton, NY 11968
phone (631)283-8085 - fax (631)287-8741 - info@dgec.net
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