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Did you know that many things gardening typically begins on the farm? Farmers are usually the trailblazers in bringing products we use for our garden to the consumer marketplace. Or, at the very least inspiring the inventors of the world to make something better and easier to use. For instance, in the 1850’s an insect called the Colorado Beetle was devastating the potato industry. A gravity fed leather knapsack, (think of a bota bag backpack on steroids – which probably leaked all over you), oozed a chemical solution out of a sprinkler head as the farmer painstakingly walked every inch...

Featured on Man vs. Yard Chapin's Mixes on Exit system Take the "praying" out of spraying. While traditional lawn and garden sprayers require you to premix your chemicals, there's no need with the Mixes on Exit (MOE) backpack and ATV sprayer. MOE takes the guesswork out of mixed because you full, set and spray. TV Schedule June 12  KYTV - Springfield, MO @ 11 a.m. June 12 WRDW - Augusta, GA @ 12 p.m. June 26 WRDW - Augusta, GA @ 12:30 p.m. July 16 KPTV - Portland, OR @ 3.30 p.m. August 6 KPTV - Portland, OR @ 2 p.m.   TV...

A tradition of quality Building upon its long history of manufacturing excellence, Chapin Manufacturing, Inc. aims to become a market leader in the retail and industrial sprayers and spreaders space. Chapin Manufacturing, Inc. is able to trace its roots back to the 1880s, when it started as a hardware store in Oakfield, New York. Following a move and an evolution into compressed air and hand sprayers, over the next 100+ years the company continued to grow its business, until today, where we find it as a manufacturer of backpack, hand, deck and wallpaper, pest control, industrial, construction, cleaning and degreasing,...

Chapin named Best Overall Chemical Sprayer: Tree/Turf Pro Commercial Backpack Sprayer and Best Value Chemical Sprayer: Home & Garden 1-gallon Sprayer   Check it out Here! 

Beneficial nematodes: the good bugs. Beneficial nematodes rank with ladybugs, earthworms, and other insects you want in your garden. These microscopic, unsegmented roundworms prey on more than 200 species of insects. Spraying beneficial nematodes on your lawn and garden is a natural and effective way to combat the harmful insects that wreak havoc with your landscape. While these are roundworms, there is no evidence to support the idea that beneficial nematodes harm humans, pets, or other animals. Three main beneficial nematodes species: Steinernema Carpocapsae, Steinernema Feltiae, Heterohabditis Bacteriophora. Chapin's G362D Hose End Sprayer makes application easy. Soil temperature ranges from...