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  • Aeration: prune plants to allow air flow through them to prevent build-up of diseases

  • Baking soda: often used in diluted form to control diseases

  • Beer traps: stale beer attracts slugs and snails

  • Bordeaux: mixture of copper sulphate and lime that mainly controls bacterial diseases

  • Beat-a-Bug: a product combining pyrethrum, garlic and capsicum, useful for controlling most insects

  • Basal watering: water around the base of plants instead of on stem or foliage to prevent fungal and bacterial diseases

  • Copper tape: around plants to stop slug and snail attack

  • Crop rotation: planting different plant family groups in individual garden plots each year for four years in a crop rotation system to avoid build-up of pests and diseases specific to one plant family group

  • Derris dust: dust made from plant material; controls several insects

  • Dipel: biological bacteria that attack larvae of several insect species including cabbage white butterfly and light brown apple moth

  • Enviromat mulch collars: placed around plants for weed control

  • Fruit fly traps: attract and kill fruit fly adults to prevent them breeding

  • Hydronurture igloo: water-filled cellular ribbed igloo used to protect plants and give extra warmth to boost growth, especially during cooler conditions

  • Insect predators (including mites, wasps, and eelworms): can be purchased and released in the garden

  • Jiffy pots: compressed peat moss plugs suitable for seed germination and propagation

  • Liquid seaweed: provides minute quantities of nutrients for plants and seems to help build-up of pest and disease resistance in plants; used as soil drench and foliar spray

  • Lime dust / powder: used for making Bordeaux and mixed with water, used to control apple scab disease; dust puffed on leaves will also control apple and pear slug

  • Lime sulphur: corrosive liquid used as a fungicide; will control some bacterial and fungal diseases

  • Milk: as a spray on leaves, can control powdery mildew infections

  • Mineral oil: controls insects and their eggs

  • Mulch: organic material that attracts worms and suppresses weeds

  • Multiguard Slug and Snail Pellets: contains an iron compound that breaks down into harmless organic products and is non-polluting

  • Neem: plant extract acting on insects by making them starve

  • Netting: prevents bird and animal predation

  • Citrus oil: controls some insects and their eggs

  • Paper bags: placed over fruits before ripe, to prevent birds and insects from eating them

  • Pestoil: a useful oil product that controls many insects like scale, citrus leaf miner and aphids

  • Pheromone traps: attracts male codling moth insects to prevent them breeding

  • Pyrethrum: broad spectrum spray that will kill all insects, so use with care and read the label

  • Quassia chips: steep in boiling water and use on plants to discourage possums

  • Soapy water: smothers insects and scale

  • Sticky traps: glue on the trap's surface traps insects like white fly

  • Tea tree oil: an antiseptic, cleaning agent and disease control

  • Vitec fish food emulsion: fertiliser used as a foliar spray or liquid root drench; seems to build up disease resistance in some plants

    — Tips from Allen Gilbert's "All About Apples"

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