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Who We Are
Pharm Solutions Approach
to Gardening
 Welcome to the “Next Generation
of Pesticides,” including insecticides, miticides,
fungicides and foliar feeders. We say “next
generation” because the enormous ground swell of
opinion among gardeners and growers is to move away
from toxic chemicals, their exposure, dangers and
difficulty of use, to more natural alternatives for
use in the home, private gardens, minor use farm and
commercial growers alike. As organic growers for over
20 years, we encountered a constant challenge to find
natural products that actually worked. After years of
frustration we simply took matters into our own hands
and did the necessary research to develop solutions
for our most difficult challenges in growing. Since
the summer of 2004, we have been committed to finding
the best total solutions for our customers, so we used
as our guideline, some of our own most pressing
concerns. Thus, one of our goals was to create an
insecticidal soap that did not contain alcohol. What
a surprise it was to find that the most common
insecticidal soaps at your favorite garden center are
96% alcohol in ready to use form! We know that alcohol
will frequently cause leaf burn or leaf drop - a crime
for those of us that show roses. We also hoped to
capture, in a single bottle, as many of the benefits
of some historically well-known remedies and
treatments for plant disease, mites and fungus. It
was an exciting evolutionary process, as we combined
ingredients first to create a natural, environmentally
friendly insecticide, then decided to see just how
“big” a product we could create, and began adding
other ingredients to address mites and fungus. Leaning
heavily on University studies, our thinking about
treatment options shifted from a single product
approach to a treatment “system” as we began to
consider the possible stages of treatment. For
instance, in our test gardens, we wanted to give our
healthy plants every opportunity to continue to be
healthy on their own without any (or minimal)
treatment. Thus, we applied only our Garlic
Pharm repellant
(with fungicidal properties) in an effort to
prevent insect infestation and control fungus. If a
plant did become infested or infected, we would then
use our insecticidal soaps where the pure essential
oils (also containing miticides and fungicides)
eliminate the pests. Finally, we would routinely
fertilize and nourish our garden twice monthly using
our fish fertilizer, with fungicidal properties. We found that this treatment regimen -
frequent application of repellant (with fungicide),
application of insecticidal soap product (with
fungicide) upon infestation, and regular fertilizing(
with fungicide ) to nourish and control fungus - gave
us excellent results without the use of any harsh
chemicals, and our plants loved it!
That is the story of how the line
of Pharm Solutions products was born, and we are happy
to say that if you use our products according to
directions, you too will be able to manage insects,
mites and control fungus in your growing endeavors,
however large or small.
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