Naturally-occurring to biopesticides
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June 24, 2020

Naturally-occurring to biopesticides

For as long as we have been growers, we have been trying to find ways to keep pests from our plants. One naturally-occurring product used as a pesticide was nicotine sulfate (for years marketed as Black Leaf 40), lethal to most crawling things that chewed in the garden. It has been banned for garden

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