Topic: anti cabbage root fly powder

[tartonterro]

can you still get the powder you used to dip your cabbage/Brussels sprouts etc into, remember my dad using it when i was a kid?
or is this another of the things that have been banned from use?

[Tee Gee]

The powder was Calomel dust and no you can't get it now. Its been banned too much mercury in it as I recall.

I started using Armillatox after it was banned

[RobinOfTheHood]

Would Jeye's fluid have the same effect?

I did notice that the cabbage whites weren't settling on mine after I'd watered them in with it - got it on the leaves too.

[PurpleHeather]

Cabbage pests do not like the smell of marigolds.

[Ishard]

Which marigolds please  Purple?

[glow777]

put rhubarb leaves in a tub of water, leave for a few weeks then water your cabbage etc with the water - cabbage whites wont go near it

[Ishard]

I would if I could  :) but no rhubarb  :(

[manicscousers]

try a garlic spray, boil up a couple of old garlic bulbs, water it down a bit and spray , keeps greenfly off, not sure about cabbage whites but it stinks  ;D
oh, I think it's the french marigolds, that's what I use  ;D

[shirlton]

I also use french marigolds inside the Gh and outside. Tagetes are also very good. the foxes don't seem to like them either.

[tartonterro]

The powder was Calomel dust and no you can't get it now. Its been banned too much mercury in it as I recall.

I started using Armillatox after it was banned

what dilution rate do you use with the armilatox?

[Lost in France]

I use Derris powder, think it's quite harmless to most things...except the ones you want rid of...fly-beetles and caterpillers!

Judi ;)

[Tee Gee]

what dilution rate do you use with the armilatox?

The same as I described before 1 measure to two gallons of water.

Perhaps I had better explain that I use armillatox for its versatility as it works for me with many gardening chores.

The dose I give at planting out time caters for; root fly, cabbage whites I think the smell is the deterrent here. It is also used as a club root control and I have to say it works for me.

It also works for cleaning algae of green house glass, cleaning moss off footpaths, cleaning pots.

All in all  its a good all round product.

One might think it a bit pricey but when you consider I treat about 150 brassicas, wash around 800 pots, 100 trays, and keep the glass clean on four greenhouses every year and a bottle does me at least two years I don't find it at all pricey.

Plus it works!!. which is more than I can say for some products supposedly designed to do the same things, so that doubles the reason for me to use it.

By the way; I don't have a vested interest in the product, and I don't think it is organic  but who cares I don't  8)

Edit;

By the way I never spray plants with it I only use it as a soil treatment.

[RobinOfTheHood]

Is the edit for legal reasons Tee Gee?  8)


And by other products do you include Jeye's?

[peasmad]

The powder was Calomel dust and no you can't get it now. Its been banned too much mercury in it as I recall.

I started using Armillatox after it was banned

Glad to see i'm not the only one using Armillatox. It's good for vine weevil eggs. I'm so pleased it was marketed under a new heading, garden cleaner, but i have been assured by the company that it hasn't been altered at all.