THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, July 2, 1995 TAG: 9506290190
SECTION: HOME PAGE: G1 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: REMINDERS
SOURCE: ROBERT STIFFLER
LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
JAPANESE BEETLES have arrived. Those dreadful harbingers of summer eat roses and more than 200 other plants.
Traps are ineffective. The only pesticides that really help are Sevin dust or spray with Sevin liquid or malathion. Those products kill the beetles on contact, but more will be back the next day. The makers of Sevin say that you can spread a tarp on the ground around a small tree or shrub and then vigorously shake it early in the morning, when beetles are sluggish. The beetles will fall into the tarp and can be drowned in gasoline or soapy water.
Garden America News Service reports that geraniums, particularly white ones, attract Japanese beetles but the beetles die when they eat the geranium foliage. Thus, if geraniums are planted near roses, they may help keep these pests from damaging roses. ILLUSTRATION: Color photo
STARK BROS.
APPLES IN A POT
The new Colonnade apple tree from Stark Bros. can be grown in a
container or the ground. This columnar tree was bred in Japan to fit
small spaces. Available at Atlantic Garden Centers and other
outlets.
by CNB