Raspberries Spraying required

Raspberries Spraying required.

This is what they recommend but I am going to spray with Ortho's new spray called "Garden Disease Control" that is extremely effective. It stops and prevents over 130 different diseases. I spray all my garden and flowering plants, my vegetables, and my trees with it. The results are fantastic. Tip #1A is spray with Ortho "Garden Disease Control" often. I do it once every 2 weeks. For insects I will be using Ortho's new Bug Be Gone spray.

Raspberries and blackberries
Spray period	Pest/Disease	Material	Comments
DELAYED DORMANT SPRAYS
Apply when tips of buds show green.	cane borers		Characteristic injury is a swelling of the cane, about 3 inches long, with a splitting of the bark. Infested canes are weakened and often die. Remove and burn infested canes.
Apply when tips of buds show green.	anthracnose, orange rust	liquid lime sulfur	Apply to canes when buds break in the spring and again when fruiting canes are about 1 foot tall and before the blossoms open.
PREBLOOM SPRAYS
Apply when blossom buds first appear through when flowers show white.	cane borers	methoxychlor, or diazinon	Adult beetles typically appear when flowers show white. Apply insecticide and repeat application 7-14 days later.
	raspberry crown borer	diazinon	Infested canes become spindly, lack vigor and often break off at ground level. Remove and destroy weakened or infested canes. Drench crown and lower 2 feet of cane with insecticide.
	raspberry fruitworm	diazinon, or rotenone	Tunneling in the fruit may cause premature fruit drop. Leaf skeletonization may also occur. Apply insecticide when blossom buds separate and just before bloom.
	psylla	malathion	Feeding damage causes tightly curled leaf clusters. Such leaf clusters should be removed and destroyed immediately. Apply insecticide when adults first appear.
POSTBLOOM THROUGH HARVEST SPRAYS
Apply every 14 days after petal-fall as needed.	Japanese beetle, sap beetles	carbaryl, or malathion, or rotenone	Adult beetles feeding on ripening fruit and foliage. Do not apply carbaryl within 7 days of harvest.
Apply every 14 days after petal-fall as needed.	orange rust	sulfur	After early spring remove and destroy any canes infested with orange rust

For more information on go to http://honeycreek.us/spray.htm or http://ohioline.osu.edu/b861/b861_33.html

Here is another good guide http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/Insects/g292.htm#spray

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