Natural Guard Spinosad Soap RTU

DIRECTIONS FOR USE

For outdoor residential use in home gardens, lawns, and ornamentals and greenhouses (non-commercial).

Not for use on plants being grown for sale or other commercial use, or for commercial seed production, or for research purposes.

Shake container before use. Apply when listed insects are present. Thoroughly spray all plant parts to wetting, including undersides of leaves. Repeat applications may be made as indicated in the Use Restrictions section.

Apply when the first signs of powdery mildew appear and repeat at 7-10 day intervals. Do not exceed restrictions listed in the Use Restrictions section. This product must come into contact with powdery mildew to be effective. Complete coverage is essential for maximum control.

Do not use on sweet peas, nasturtiums, or delicate ferns. Use with care on new seedlings, transplants, and blooms. Do not spray during full sun. If concerned about the sensitivity of plants, apply to individual plants or small areas of plants and wait 2 days to determine if plant damage occurs prior to treatment of larger areas.

Insects:

This will control insects such as: adelgids (woolly aphids), ants (excluding fire ants, harvester ants, Pharaoh’s ants and carpenter ants), aphids, armyworms, beetles (including Colorado potato beetle), borers, caterpillars, chinch bugs, codling moth, earwigs, fruit flies (including spotted wing Drosophila), gypsy moth, lace bugs, leafhoppers, leafminers, leafrollers, loopers, mealybugs, mites, mole crickets, plant bugs, psyllids, sawfly larvae (e.g. pear and rose slugs), scale insects, spider mites, tent caterpillars, thrips, webworms, weevils (including black vine weevil), and whiteflies.

Powdery Mildew: This provides curative control of powdery mildew.

USE SITES

Vegetables:

artichokes (globe), asparagus, beans, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, cauliflower, corn, cucumbers, eggplants, garlic, lettuce, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, squash, Swiss chard, tomatoes and turnips Fruits, including: apples, avocados, apricots, cherries, grapes, melons, peaches, plums, citrus, pears Berries, including: strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, loganberries, raspberries Herbs, including: angelica, balm, basil, borage, burnet, chamomile, catnip, chervil (dried), chive, clary, coriander, costmary, cilantro, curry, dillweed, horehound, hyssop, lavender, lemongrass, lovage, marigold, marjoram, mint, nasturtium, parsley, pennyroyal, rosemary, rue, sage, savory, sweet bay, tansy, tarragon, thyme, wintergreen, Woodruff and wormwood Peanuts, Pistachios, Tree Nuts, including almond, cashew, chestnut, filbert, macadamia nut, pecan, walnut.

Outdoor Ornamentals; Greenhouses (NonCommercial); Outdoor Container Grown Plants; Lawns.

USE RESTRICTIONS

BERRIES

• 1 Day PHI
  • Caneberries (blackberry, loganberry, raspberry)
  • 5 days
  • 6/year
  • Strawberry - 5/year
• 3 Days PHI
  • Bushberries (blueberry, currant, elderberry, gooseberry, huckleberry)
  • 6 days
  • 3/crop or 6/year
• 21 Days PHI
  • Cranberry
  • 7 days
  • 6/year

FRUITS

• 1-day PHI
  • Citrus (grapefruit, lemons, limes, oranges, tangerines)
  • 6 days
  • 3/year
  • Tropical tree fruits (avocado, guava, mango, papaya, passion fruit)
  • 7 days
  • 2/year
  • Stone fruits (nectarines, peaches)
  • 7 Days
  • N/A
• 7 days PHI
  • Grape
  • 5 days
  • 5/year
  • Stone fruits (cherries, plums, prunes)
  • 7 days
  • N/A
  • Fig
  • 7 days
  • 4/year
  • Dates
  • 7 days
  • N/A
  • Pome fruits (apples, crabapples, pears, mayhaw, quince)
  • 10 days
  • 4/year
  • Pomegranate
  • N/A
  • N/A
  • Pineapple (only for use in Hawaii)
  • 7 days
  • 6/year
• 14 days PHI
  • Apricots
  • 7 days
  • N/A
• 8 weeks PHI
  • Banana and plantain (California, Florida, Hawaii, and Texas only)
  • 7 days
  • 4/crop or 6/year

VEGETABLES

• 1 day PHI
  • Bulb vegetables (onion, garlic, green onion, leek, shallot)
  • 4 days
  • 5/year
  • Brassica (cole) crops (bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale)
  • 4 days
  • 6/year
  • Corn (sweet corn, popcorn, seed corn)
  • N/A
  • 6/year
  • Cucumber
  • N/A
  • 6/crop
  • Fruiting vegetables (eggplant, pepper, tomato) and okra
  • 4 days
  • 6/year
  • Leafy vegetables (except Brassica; arugula, celery, lettuce, dock, endive, fennel, parsley, rhubarb, spinach, Swiss chard); watercress
  • 4 days
  • 6 year
• 2 days PHI
  • Artichoke
  • 7 days
  • 4/crop
• 3 days PHI
  • Legume vegetables (beans, peas, blackeyed peas)
  • 5 days
  • 6/crop
  • Cucurbits (melons, cantaloupe, pumpkin, squash, watermelon)
  • 5 days
  • 6/crop
  • Leaves of root, tuber and legume vegetables
  • 4 days
  • 6/year
  • Root vegetables – Carrot, ginseng, parsnip
  • 5 days
  • 4/year
  • Root vegetables – Radish, rutabaga, turnip
  • 5 days
  • 3/year
  • Tuberous and Corm Vegetables (beets, sugarbeets)
  • 7 days
  • 4/crop
• 7 days PHI
  • Potatoes, ginger, sweet potatoes, yams
  • 7 days
  • 4/crop
• 60 days PHI
  • Asparagus
  • 4 days
  • 3/crop

TREE NUTS, PEANUTS, AND PISTACHIOS

• 1-day PHI
  • Tree nuts (almond, cashew, chestnut, filbert, macadamia nut, pecan, walnut); Pistachios
  • 7 days
  • N/A
• 3 days PHI
  • Peanut (not for use in California)
  • 7 days
  • 3/year

HERBS

• 1-day PHI
  • Herbs (angelica, balm, basil, borage, burnet, chamomile, catnip, chervil (dried), chive, clary, coriander, costmary, cilantro, curry, dillweed, horehound, hyssop, lavender, lemongrass, lovage, marigold, marjoram, nasturtium, parsley, pennyroyal, rosemary, rue, sage, savory, sweet bay, tansy, tarragon, thyme, wintergreen, Woodruff and wormwood)
  • 5 days
  • 3/crop or 5/year
• 7 days PHI
  • Mint
  • 4 days
  • 3/crop or 4/year

Lawns, Turf, Outdoor Container-Grown Plants and Ornamentals (Herbaceous and Woody)

Uniformly spray foliage to point of runoff. Uniform coverage of upper and lower leaf surfaces is essential for effective insect control. Do not make applications less than 7 days apart.

Greenhouses (non-commercial)

Make localized area treatments of ornamental plants where pest problems are anticipated to occur rather than general area-wide broadcast treatments. Do not apply this product more than 10 times per year inside a greenhouse. If this product is being used for thrips, leafminer, spider mite and/or diamondback moth control, do not apply more than 6 times per year inside a greenhouse.