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  • From: "dave@owensfarm.com" <dave@owensfarm.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Organic
  • Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:34:37 -0400


I have used Surround WP for several years but I stopped using it on peaches. My pest problems were not too bad and the surround is almost impossible to wash off the fuzz. Surround does stop apple maggot, plum curculio and many other pests but you must apply it after a hard rain and keep a good coating from June drop on, i.e. a lot of work.

I order Surround from Fedco, for my small 8 tree orchard, the 25# bag will last me 2 years. Seems the Gardens Alive is the same version only with more expensive packaging. Surround is trademarked so there is really only one place that makes it. It is kaolin clay spun in a high speed centrifuge so that only very fine particles remain.

Fedco: 8831: (25.0#) $32.50 Gardens Alive (25.0#) $79.95

- Dave Owens
Sunbury, PA





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