A guide to using mint oil for sprout control in potatoes

摘要

Spearmint oil has the potential to play a more prominent role in sprout control programmes post-CIPC, but users must prepare stores adequately to ensure success.Marketed by Kent-based Juno Plant Protection, Biox-M - a 100% spearmint oil product applied as a hot fog - first made it to the UK back in 2012.Initial interest was in the fresh sector, organics and in new stores, where managers feared for CIPC's [chlorpropham's] future and wanted to avoid long-term contamination of buildings.