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11/1/2020 – After the wind from Hurricane Zeta blew the south side of the large Knock Out rose immediately west of the front porch the blackened stalks in the center and dead canes were more visible. Cut them out. Research into why the azalea in the backyard row has dead stalks lead to understanding about […]
Continue Reading10/25/2020 – The azalea on the east side of the gap between the back yard and the barnyard has had limbs dying. Diagnosis of it having Crown rot or wilt – (Phytophthora) and the treatment was with the help of the following. Diagnosis is based on “Scraping away the bark with a knife revealed discolored wood […]
Continue Reading8/20/2020, cloudy afternoon – For the first time, sprayed all roses with sulfur for black spot on other fungal diseases. 8/21/2020, 8 AM – Drenched all roses to wash off the sulfur and prevent sunlight damage to leaves. Also to wash the sulfur into the soil to help prevent issues there.
Continue Reading8/11/2020 – Sprayed Spinosad On Citrus Trees as the new leaves are curling and there is some leafminer damage. 8/12/2020 – Sprayed Daconil on the citrus trees due to black sooty spots and white powdery place on some leaves.
Continue Reading8/11/2020 – Sprayed mancozeb on the blue and jack-o-lantern pumpkins and the zuchinni as there are a few white spots and a little downy mildew. Also sprayed lightly the seedlings that have come up in the winter squash rows on the east side.
Continue Reading8/1/2020 – 8/1/2020 – Given the almost daily rains for the past week, sprayed Mancozeb on all the Floribunda roses.
Continue Reading8/1/2020 – 8/1/2020 – Given the almost daily rains for the past week, sprayed Mancozeb on the pumpkins and white scalloped squash in Row 5. Small white spots are appearing on the leaves and hopefully, this will stop it.
Continue Reading7/3/2020 – The late blight continues to kill leaves/stems that we have removed as they appear. The tomatoes seem to be doing better without the energy spent trying to deal with the diseased parts. Still having a few tomatoes with the rotten spots but not as many as before we began spraying. Sprayed them almost […]
Continue Reading6/27/2020 – The concept to mix a contact and a systemic fungicide seems smart. Found a recommendation that sounded well conceived–at the end of this post–and this spray and the followup plan below is based on that advice.
Continue Reading6/23/2020, 4 pm – Sprayed Tomatoes with Daconil Fungicide and lightly sprayed peppers that are not bearing. 6/24/2020, 7 am – Sprayed them with Bifenthrin as a preventative for stink bugs although have seen only one or two and killed them.
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