Take Down Garden Spray

Take Down Garden Spray is a blend of natural pyrethrin and canola oil. The pyrethrin gives excellent insect knockdown and quick control. The canola oil acts like a horticultural oil and controls insects by suffocation. It will also control insect eggs. This product combines the useful characteristics of both ingredients into one very effective insecticide combination.

Take Down Garden Spray is .5% pyrethrin and 89.5% canola oil. The concentrate is available in pints and quarts. Take Down Garden Spray RTU is the Ready-To-Use formulation of these products, designed to be used directly out of the container. It is packaged in a 22 oz spray bottle.

It can be used indoors, outdoors, and in greenhouses, on fruit and nut trees, vegetables, grapes, strawberries, citrus, houseplants and all forms of bedding plants, flowers, trees, and shrubs.

Most garden pest such as aphid, japanese beetle, colorado potato beetle, caterpillars, leaf roller, mealy bug, leafhopper, scale, whitefly, plant bugs, thrips, psyllid, mites, and many others.

For the concentrate, mix water and apply at 2½-5 Tbsp per gallon of water. Apply thoroughly to the area to be sprayed to the point of runoff. With the RTU, apply directly out of the container, and thoroughly cover the area to be treated.

Yes, right up to the day of harvest.

Use the higher rate (5 Tbsp) with the first application, then apply weekly until the insect cycle is broken with the lower rate (2½ Tbsp) Thorough coverage is necessary. Shake well before using.

Apply the higher rate (5 Tbsp) when the plants are dormant to control such insects and scales, mealybugs, mites and also to control the eggs of various insects.

Oils remove the blue blooms on certain evergreens, so do not use if this is a problem. Some plants are oil-sensitive. Test by spraying just a small area before using weekly. Do not combine Take Down Garden Spray with sulfurs, and do not apply sulfur 30 days before or after applying Take Down Spray. Sulfur and oil are a bad combination. Do not apply when temperatures are about 90° F (except for dormant usage). If the temperature is expected to be about 90° F, apply early in the morning or late evening after it has cooled off. Applications to citrus after October 1 may increase the tree’s susceptibility to cold damage during the winter.