Awwww Mr M & P....  sure it will be Ok this time...  Will keep my fingers crossed for you.

Of course you won't fail it Mr M & P Pie.
But getting over-anxious won't help.
Thousands of people fail something once, then pass the next time.
Stay calm and you'll be fine.

You'll be fine Meaty. Get a good night's sleep and go sock it to them tomorrow

None of the males in my house would pass a spraying exam, either!

Good luck.

This is a link to a page of sample questions from the PA1 test if you haven't already seen this. You'll be fine.

Good luck Meaty.


Got mine in July mostly computer ones so strangely looking forward to getting them out of the way.

Good luck 

good luck meaty

Good luck with the exam, Meaty.

Good luck.....

Good luck with the exam today Mr Meat fingerscrossedsmiley.

PASSED.


01 Legislation 4/4
02 Interpreting product label info 6/6
03 personal safety and contamination 7/8
04 Pesticide and container storage 3/3
05 Disposals 3/5
06 Record keeping 3/3
07 Environmental 2/4

Total: 28/33

Now I can do my PA6 exam and then get my license.

Congrats, Meaty.  What are you training towards?

Yay! Well done!

Congratulations and well done. We knew you could do it.

Congratulations Mr Meat!  

Meaty's going to be able to spray us all legally.

Well im currently a Horticulturalist and im doing a ND Horticulture course which also involves NPTC tractor driving and NPTC PA1/PA6 which is spraying pesticides. You can legally spray in your own garden without a license, but to do so anywhere else you have to get the spraying license. Getting this just makes me more employable, at some places where I may work they will ask if I have a spraying license.

That sounds great, Meaty 
Glad it's all going according to plan.
Loro, you're as rood as Lizzie

Well done Meaty.
I'm very pleased for you.

Although I have to say, I wouldn't allow any pesticide spraying in my garden. I like leaving the mini beasties to get on with their lives

Thank you - I try to please

Congratulations and well done Meaty!  

Well done Meaty

Well done Meaty, congratulations.

Well Done......

Great news Mr MaPP!

I grow my own veg etc,totally organic,no pesticdes used,well apart from some soapy water  for the aphids.

Im very much the same, all my veg is grown organic, found growing coventional you don't get as good as taste as you do organic, just organic perhaps requires more work but thats what I enjoy about it... if there is an aphids problem katty I use a biological method and use ladybugs, I just spread them over the area and they eat away on the aphids, they don't eat any of the veg.

The only spraying that im likely to use it on is probably lawns. Golf courses and botanical gardens usually spray herbicides to keep the weeds out.

Well done on the exam Meaty

I'm growing loads of veg this year ...I never use a spray but I'm not sure I could do it without slug pellets

Well done on the exam

Way to go Mr M & P..... Congratulations

I know what you mean, last year I did use slug pellets. If you don't have the time or if you don't want to be out there every day having to keep the slugs/snails off your veg then stick to it. Feels much easier just sprinkling blue pellets then going out there in evening with a torch and having to get rid of each one.

Then you see the snail slime on the soil in the morning and a big bite in the leaf, basically sending the message saying "You missed me".

I don't dare tell my Organic Hort. tutor that I have used any chemicals on my plots, he would flip. Another bar-steward are rabbits I usually have to go over and maintain my parents veg plots and behind the house is a forest. They were always at the veg and when I would drive round and head over on a sunday they would shoot off when I approach. Now got that sorted though, just stuck chicken wire around so they can no longer get in.

phew - I feel like I have been given dispensation!!

Beer for the slugs! you set little traps that they fall into and drown happy.Slug pellets are dangerous at this time of year,the slugs die and lie on the the surface of the ground,blackbirds, thrushes etc are feeding their young just now and can pick them up,poisoned slugs for their babies.

Don't katty ... I did kindof know that ... but had tried to forget about it

If you have to use slug pellets,I think there are more bird friendly etc ones on the market now,maybe check the labels.Another thing you can do is put chicken wire over your crops to keep the birds off.

Oh alright .... I will go have a look in B&Q or somewhere at the weekend.

I know you are right because when I got home from work today I picked a slug off the cucumbers and it was still fizzing where it had got to the pellets ... but we have an almost tame blackbird and a thrush. I'd be soooo upset if they picked  up a poisoned snail