Pesticide Alternatives & Natural Solutions

Challenge & Problem

Ants Aphids Blackspot Chinch Bugs Clover
Crabgrass (prevention)

Natural or Home Made Solution

Pour boiling water over anthills

Permitted Products ***

Active Ingredient

Common Name
Diatomceous Earth, Borax

Chemfree Insectigone Crawling Insect Killer, Green Earth Bio Bug Silicon Dioxide, & Slug Killer, Raid Earthblends Ant & Earwig Dust, Wilson Liquid Boric Acid Antex, Raid Liquid Ant Killer, Safers Attack Ant Killer, Ortho Ant-B -Gone Max

Ladybugs have a voracious appetite for aphids! Or, spray solution (2 tbsp. of mild dish soap to 1 quart luke warm water) to affected areas

Safer's Trounce Yard & Garden Insecticide, Green Earth InsectiSoap, Fatty Acid, Insecticidal Soap, cide Soap, Wilson Pro Insecticidal Soap Concentrate, Environmen- Pyrethrum or other tal Factor Zap Insecticidal Soap, Scott's EcoSense Insecticidal Pyrethrins Soap, Raid Earthblends Vegetable Bug Fogger, Safer's Vegetable Garden Insecticide Sulphur Sulphur

On lawn: overseed with good Safer's Defender Garden Fungicide, Green Earth Garden Sulpher quality grass seed mix Fungicide, Later's Garden Sulphur Fungicide On plants: prune Maintain a healthy lawn and dethatch Green Earth Insecticide Soap, Wilson Pro Insecticidal Soap Concentrate, Environmental Factor Zap Insecticidal Soap, Scotts EcoSense Insecticidal Soap

Soap

Insecticidal Soap

Clover is good for your lawn and provides nitrogen Mulch in gardens, overseed and raise mover blades on lawn Environmental Factor Turf Maize, WOW Without Weeds Corn Gluten Meal

*** This is not a complete or exhaustive list of products nor does the City of Port Coquitlam endorse any product or brand listed in this table. Use any product at your own risk and always read and follow the instructions on the label.

Pesticide Alternatives & Natural Solutions

Challenge & Problem
Crabgrass (established) Creeping Charlie Dandelions Dandelions (prevention) (established) Earwigs Grubs (i.e. European Chafer Grubs)

Natural or Home Made Solution

Overseed, raise mower blades and pull out by hand and/or cut before they go to seed Overseed, raise mower blades and pull out by hand

Permitted Products ***

Presidents Choice Weed Controller Herbicide, Scotts EcoSense Non-Selective Weed Control, EcoClear Fast Acting Weed & Grass Killer

Active Ingredient
Acetic Acid

Common Name
Horticultural Vinegar

Scott's EcoSense Non-Selective Weed Control, EcoClear Fast Acting Weed & Grass Killer

Acetic Acid

Horticultural Vinegar

Mulch in gardens, overseed and raise mover blades on lawn Overseed, raise mower blades and pull out by hand and/or cut before they go to seed Trap using rolled up newspaper filled with peanut butter

Environmental Factor Turf Maize, WOW Without Weeds

Corn Gluten Meal

Presidents Choice Weed Controller Herbicide, Scotts EcoSense Non-Selective Weed Control, EcoClear Fast Acting Weed & Grass Killer

Acetic Acid

Horticultural Vinegar

Chemfree Insectigone Crawling Insect Killer, Green Earth Bio Bug & Slug Killer, Raid Earthblends Ant & Earwig Dust, Earthblends Vegetable Bug Fogger, Safers Vegetable Garden Insecticide

Silicon Dioxide, Diatomaceous Pyrethrum or Py- Earth, other rethrins Bacillus thurinBt, Nematodes giensis (Bt), Nematodes

Maintain a healthy lawn Safers BTK Biological insecticide, Environmental Factor Grub through green yard care tech- Busters, Natural Insect Control Lawn Guard, Nematodes niques, consider alternative (Roundworm or Heterorhabditis bacteriophora) groundcover (such as mulch, paving stones or Dutch White Clover)

*** This is not a complete or exhaustive list of products nor does the City of Port Coquitlam endorse any product or brand listed in this table. Use any product at your own risk and always read and follow the instructions on the label.

Pesticide Alternatives & Natural Solutions

Challenge & Problem
Leaf chewer (gypsy moths, caterpillars) Leatherjackets Mealy Bugs Moss Powder Mildew

Natural or Home Made Solution

Physically remove

Permitted Products ***

Safers Trounce Yard & Garden Insecticide, Green Earth Insecticide Soap, Wilson Pro Insecticidal Soap Concentrate, Environmental Factor Zap Insecticidal Soap, Scotts EcoSense Insecticidal Soap, Chemfree Insectigone Crawling Insect Killer, Green Earth Bio Bug & Slug Killer, Raid Earthblends Ant & Earwig Dust, Safers BTK Biological insecticide, Bioprotec Eco Environmental Factor Grub Busters, Environmental Factor Leatherjacket Control

Active Ingredient

Common Name

Soap, Fatty Insecticidal Soap, Acide, Silicon Diatomaceous Earth, Dioxide, Bacillus Bt thuringiensis (Bt)

Maintain a healthy lawn through green yard care techniques, consider alternative groundcover (such as mulch, paving stones or Dutch White Clover)

Nematodes

Nematodes

Dab with rubbing alcohol Safer's Trounce Yard & Garden Insecticide, Green Earth InsectiSoap, Fatty Acid on a cotton swab cide Soap, Wilson Pro Insecticidal Soap Concentrate, Environmental Factor Zap Insecticidal Soap, Scott's EcoSense Insecticidal Soap

Insecticidal Soap, other

Dig out and aerate lawn, Safers De-Moss, Presidents Choice Weed Controller Herbicide, maintain a healthy lawn Scotts EcoSense Non-Selective Weed Control, EcoClear Fast through green yard care Acting Weed & Grass Killer techniques

Soap, Fatty Acid, Acetic Acid

Insecticidal Soap, Horticultural Vinegar, other

On lawn: overseed with good quality grass seed mix On plants: prune

Safer's Defender Garden Fungicide, Green Earth Garden Sulpher Fungicide, Later's Garden Sulphur Fungicide

Sulphur

Sulphur

*** This is not a complete or exhaustive list of products nor does the City of Port Coquitlam endorse any product or brand listed in this table. Use any product at your own risk and always read and follow the instructions on the label.

Pesticide Alternatives & Natural Solutions

Challenge & Problem Natural or Home Made Solution
On lawn: overseed with good quality grass seed mix On plants: prune

Permitted Products ***

Safer's Defender Garden Fungicide, Green Earth Garden Sulpher Fungicide, Later's Garden Sulphur Fungicide

Active Ingredient
Sulphur

Common Name
Sulphur

*** This is not a complete or exhaustive list of products nor does the City of Port Coquitlam endorse any product or brand listed in this table. Use any product at your own risk and always read and follow the instructions on the label.

Rust Scale Insects Snails & Slugs Weeds in Inter- Other Weeds in Lawn locking/patio

Scrape off stem, prune infected branches

Safer's Trounce Yard & Garden Insecticide, Green Earth InsectiSoap, Fatty Acid cide Soap, Wilson Pro Insecticidal Soap Concentrate, Environmen- (in early stages), tal Factor Zap Insecticidal Soap, Scott's EcoSense Insecticidal Mineral Oil Soap, Plant Products Dorman Oil, Green Earth Horticultural Oil Insect Spray, Later's Dormant Oil Spray

Insecticidal Soap, Dormant or Horticultural Oil

Trap by placing a small Chemfree Insectigone Crawling Insect Killer, Green Earth Bio Bug container filled with honey & Slug Killer, Raid Earthblends Ant & Earwig Dust, Sluggo Slug & on the ground Snail Bait for Gardens, Scott's Ecosense Slug & Snail Bait, Safer's Slug & Snail Bait

Silicon Dioxide, Ferric Phosphate

Diatomaceous Earth, other

Pull out by hand and/or pour boiling water over

Presidents Choice Weed Controller Herbicide, Scotts EcoSense Non-Selective Weed Control, EcoClear Fast Acting Weed & Grass Killer

Acetic Acid

Horticultural Vinegar

Overseed, raise mower blades and pull out by hand

Presidents Choice Weed Controller Herbicide, Scotts EcoSense Non-Selective Weed Control, EcoClear Fast Acting Weed & Grass Killer

Acetic Acid

Horticultural Vinegar