Plants

Question 1

Bitting insects

Answer 1

Chew through the entire leaf, skeletonize the leaf (eating the underside of the leaf) , leaf miners eat the layer between upper and lower leaf - unaffected by surface poisons.

Question 2

Fertilizer weight of 50lb bag 5-10-5

Answer 2

.05 x 50 = 2.5 nitrogen

Question 3

Nitrogen

Answer 3

Keeps plants green, promotes growth leaves, stems, roots

Nitrate - fastest acting
Ammonic - slowest

Question 4

Phosphorus

Answer 4

Promotes flowers , reproductive structures

Question 5

Potassium

Answer 5

Strengthens roots and stems and increases resistance against disease