Home gardener

The development of malathion in 1950 was an important milestone in the emergence of selective insecticides. Malathion is from one-half to one-twentieth as toxic to insects as parathion but is only about one two-hundredths as toxic to mammals. Its worldwide usage in quantities of thousands of metric tons in the home, garden, field, orchard, woodland, on animals, and in pubHc health programs has demonstrated substantial safety coupled with pest control effectiveness. The biochemical basis for the selectivity of malathion is its rapid detoxication in the mammalian Hver, but not in the insect, through the attack of carboxyesterase enzymes on the aUphatic ester moieties of the molecule. 

Endosulfan is a pesticide used in commercial agriculture and home gardening. Endosulfan has... 

Kurtz, D.A. and Bode, W.M., Application exposure to the home gardener, in Dermal Exposure Related to Pesticide Use Discussion of Risk Assessment, ACS Symposium Series 273, Honeycutt, R.C., Zweig, G., and Ragsdale, N.N., Eds., American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 1985, pp. 139-161. 

A typical homestead or Bari consists of different sites. Hussain and Miah (2004) have categorized it into five micro-sites approach road - a passage or gateway leading to the homestead front yard - the place connected to the approach road or the outer part of the homestead connected with the approach road home yard - the open place in front of the living room backyard - the site behind the household or interior place of the homestead boundary - the borderlines or demarcation lines of a homestead. These micro-sites represent the smallest production units of the home gardens that provide the opportunity to produce diversified products needed for the households for its own consumption and for cash income. However, a homestead may not have all micro-sites and the number of micro-sites usually depends on the size and location of the homestead. 

Most insects are neither particularly harmful nor beneficial to home gardens. It is important to identify the insects present in a garden to determine whether or not controls are needed. It is also important to... 

Several commercial brands of soap are especially formulated and labeled for use on garden vegetables. Some of these may be mixed with other pesticides to increase the effectiveness of both. Commercially labeled soaps are the only soaps recommended for use in the home garden. Be sure to use them only as recommended on the label. 

This information is directed at home gardeners rather than production for sale. State and federal regulations may regulate commercial production and should be consulted before considering commercial production of organic vegetables. 

Hofmeisteria schaffneri (A. Gray) R. M. King H. Robinson (Asteraceae) is a rare perennial medicinal herb known as ambar. It grows naturally in the oak and pine oak forested mountains of the central Mexican states of Jalisco and San Luis Potosi. It is cultivated in home gardens in the valley... 

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Other workers have examined the use of insects to consume troublesome weeds. Again there are problems associated with the selection of an insect that is specific to the weed and has no other disadvantages such as the sensitivity of some people. Such systems are unlikely to become widely used in agriculture but do find small niche markets, especially with the home gardener. Workers in South Africa have evaluated several insects for the control of the invasive weed Lantana camara and the aquatic fern Salvinia molesta with encouraging results.9 The grass carp has also been recommended for control of a number of submerged aquatic weeds. 

In addition to its presence in the ambient atmosphere, diazinon also has been monitored in both outdoor and indoor air associated with its use in a variety of domestic, commercial, and occupational exposure situations. Exposure to diazinon from its use in lawn and home garden applications was evaluated by Davis et al. (1983). Diazinon was mixed with water and sprayed using compressed air sprayers or hose-end sprayers, and potential respiratory and dermal exposures were estimated from residues collected from respirator filters, body pads, and hand rinsings. These authors reported mean respiratory exposures of 1.9,... 

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