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  When I was a kid during Saturday lawn chores you’d hear my dad yell “Get me the Chlordane,” or “Someone didn’t put the “Paraquat away,” and “Go to the hardware store and buy some sodium methyldithiocarbamate (actually he said Vapam).” These are either hardcore insect sprays, weed killers and soil fumigants that have been taken off the market for years. And, let’s not forget the neighbors used to lend this stuff to each other over the fence while eating a sandwich. Today it’s a different story. Insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides, molluscicides and all the “cides” are ever changing in this...

Did you know that many things gardening typically begins on the farm? Farmers are usually the trailblazers in bringing products we use for our garden to the consumer marketplace. Or, at the very least inspiring the inventors of the world to make something better and easier to use. For instance, in the 1850’s an insect called the Colorado Beetle was devastating the potato industry. A gravity fed leather knapsack, (think of a bota bag backpack on steroids – which probably leaked all over you), oozed a chemical solution out of a sprinkler head as the farmer painstakingly walked every inch...

    Sprayers are essential tools for completing various tasks around your land and home, and Chapin Professional Farm & Field Sprayers help you get the job done.  This Chapin Proseries Sprayer line includes our 21240XP, (2 gallon), and 21250XP, (3 gallon), hand compression tank sprayers.  These sprayers are easy to use and designed for application of weed and pest control products, fungicides and fertilizers.  Translucent poly tanks allow monitoring of fluid levels and wide 4 inch openings make them easy to fill.  Brass extension wands, brass shut-offs, brass nozzles, fluoropolymer elastomer seals, and reinforced hoses will hold up to...

Chapin named Best Overall Chemical Sprayer: Tree/Turf Pro Commercial Backpack Sprayer and Best Value Chemical Sprayer: Home & Garden 1-gallon Sprayer   Check it out Here! 

Beneficial nematodes: the good bugs. Beneficial nematodes rank with ladybugs, earthworms, and other insects you want in your garden. These microscopic, unsegmented roundworms prey on more than 200 species of insects. Spraying beneficial nematodes on your lawn and garden is a natural and effective way to combat the harmful insects that wreak havoc with your landscape. While these are roundworms, there is no evidence to support the idea that beneficial nematodes harm humans, pets, or other animals. Three main beneficial nematodes species: Steinernema Carpocapsae, Steinernema Feltiae, Heterohabditis Bacteriophora. Chapin's G362D Hose End Sprayer makes application easy. Soil temperature ranges from...