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NJCher

(37,743 posts) Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:46 PM Jul 2012

Need Help with Sprayer

One of our fellow gardeners mentioned Mosquito Barrier, so I ordered it. I've had it sitting around for a month or more and it hasn't been applied because of my inability to use a spray container.

I have no luck whatsoever with sprayers. I have a lot of these but I think my hand might get kind of tired, not to mention that it won't cover much of an area.

A couple years ago I went out and bought one of these, but I've never been able to figure out how to spray it. It seems to require way too much pumping for just a little output. I don't know if I'm using it wrong or if this is just the nature of the beast.

Hose-end sprayers are easier to use, but the mfr of this product doesn't recommend them for dispersing the Mosquito Barrier.

Any help or suggestions for me? If any of you have used this second type of sprayer, do you, too, find it labor-intensive for the amount of spray you're able to get from it?

Cher

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Need Help with Sprayer (Original Post) NJCher Jul 2012 OP

Those yellow sprayers will save your hand from getting tired. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #1

We use the big pump sprayer to spray our vegetable garden plants. Kolesar Jul 2012 #2

If you can locate the puddles where the mosquito larvae live, you can use "dunks" to kill them. Kolesar Jul 2012 #3

Mosquito Barrier is also all natural. beac Jul 2012 #4

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

1. Those yellow sprayers will save your hand from getting tired.

Reply to NJCher (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 10:51 PM

Jul 2012

You pump them up with maybe six to ten strokes and then have pressure for several square feet of coverage, maybe two or three minutes of spraying, a LOT more than with that little bottle.

A hose end sprayer is what I use for my 1/3 acre, and requires no pumping at all.

If the substance is concentrated and water base, then it should work fine in a hose sprayer.

Good models have an adjustment for concentration, the black dial at the top:

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)

2. We use the big pump sprayer to spray our vegetable garden plants.

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 07:22 AM

Jul 2012

It works as you described and we are happy with it. We spray about a gallon of liquid in a month, that's all. I don't know what the rate for mosquito barrier is.

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)

3. If you can locate the puddles where the mosquito larvae live, you can use "dunks" to kill them.

Reply to NJCher (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 07:26 AM

Jul 2012

Mosquito dunks are what my environmental activist friend recommend instead of spraying the whole neighborhood to prevent West Nile Virus.*

http://www.planetnatural.com/site/mosquito-dunks.html

*a mosquito-borne human disease

beac

(9,992 posts)

4. Mosquito Barrier is also all natural.

Reply to Kolesar (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 29, 2012, 08:58 PM

Jul 2012

It's made from super-concentrated garlic. Works great to deter other garden pests and discourages leaf-chewing.

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