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9/7/2021 – Sprayed Mancozeb on: Tomatoes for the small amount of Late Blight that is appearing Hydrangeas for the black spot fungus that is beginning to appear on the new growth Roses that has a little black spot and a few have yellowing leaves.
Continue Reading8/22/2021 – The hydrangeas, particularly in the backyard, have gotten large brown areas that are anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides per Clemson Cooperative Extension here. Sprayed them with Mancozeb made up a few days ago. Ran out of the mix of mancozeb before could spray the ones in the front yard. Mixed up Daconil that […]
Continue Reading8/11/2021 – Despite efforts since last fall the Azalea on the east side of the path to the barn has died of Crown Rot. We chopped and dug out around it and Fergie jerked it out of the ground. The hole and about a foot beyond was drenched with water plus hydrogen peroxide at 3:1 […]
Continue Reading7/13/2021 – The oldest knockout on the west side of the front porch has a cane with wilting leaves like the former rose behind it had. We are concerned that it is again root rot as discussed here. Poured 1.5 gallons of 3:1 water to hydrogen peroxide all around the rose stump out about 18″ from […]
Continue Reading6/9/2021 – Sprayed the tomatoes with liquid copper for blight that is rising from the bottom. It is worse on the Celebrity than on the Best Boys. There is very little on the Super Sweet 100 Cherry tomatoes.
Continue Reading5/19/2021 – Mixed about 0.88 oz. of Mancozeb into a half-gallon of water then added 1 tbsp. of Liquid Copper and added the second half-gallon of water. Sprayed the tomatoes in the big garden and those in Mary’s Garden. The gallon barely covered them. If the upper limbs/leaves had been sprayed thoroughly it would have […]
Continue Reading5/?/2021 – Mary found leaves with raised, round, brown spots on one of the magnolias in the pond yard. We are confident they are algal leaf spots and today we treated all three trees.
Continue Reading5/12/2021 – The pink roses are blooming profusely and some are starting to either be at the end of life or being attacked by botritus. Sprayed them with Mancozeb. Also sprayed the white roses in front of them although there are no signs of an issue there. The aspidistra we cut back are coming back […]
Continue Reading5/10/2021 – We could get more rain tonight and tomorrow but I doubt it will be much. Sprayed Mancozeb on the tomatoes in both gardens. There were only a few lower leaves that were yellow with black spots. Removed them while spraying. We have had a lot of blooms but only a few tomatoes. The […]
Continue Reading4/17/2021 – This will be the first fungicide treatment for daylily rust and uses a combination spray of a contact and a systemic product. Our 2020 post here has a lot of great info and was the guide for this treatment using Propiconazole 14.3 (the systemic) and Daconil (the contact fungicide). We repeated what was […]
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