Pintas, Snapdragons, & Basil in the Greenhouse
5/26/2021 – Mary sowed Pintas, Snapdragons, & Basil seeds in the greenhouse in trays.
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Sprayed Camellias for Tea Scale
4/25/2021 – The old leaves on all the camellias have some to a lot of Tea Scale. Sprayed the top and bottom of the old and new leaves to drip with Spinosad. References for this action were: https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/camellia-diseases-insect-pests/ https://www.americancamellias.com/care-culture-resources/insects-and-diseases/tea-scale
Continue ReadingDrenched Fruit Trees with Imidacloprid
4/25/2021 – Drenched Fruit Trees with Imidacloprid to hopefully prevent leaf miners. Mixed 4 oz. per gallon and poured around each smaller tree about 3 qts. and the larger one about 5 qts. The trees in the yard’s Fruit Tree Grove and the Satsuma in the orchard are listed below. Blood Orange Meyer Lemons Peach […]
Continue ReadingTransplanted Azaleas to Pond Yard
4/22/2021 – The largest of the small azaleas from the large concrete foundation for Mom’s clothesline was planted in the space where the Hamilin Orange froze this past winter. The other four, that came apart cleanly, were planted where the oleanders did not make it through the cold winter and in the SW corner of […]
Continue ReadingTrimmed the Azaleas & Camellia
4/22/2021 – Yesterday we pruned the row of azaleas between the backyard and the barnyard. Today, pruned the camellia and azalea outside the dressing and bedroom room window and the one south of the blueberries. The limbs, piled high, filled the truck and were hauled to the burn pile. We trimmed them a bit lower […]
Continue ReadingCleanup & Planting in the Pond Yard
4/20/2021 – The volunteer Beach Sunflowers in the garden need to be moved and only a few have come up in the crepe myrtle beds and rose bed along the rail fence of the pond yard. We transplanted them into the crepe beds in the pond yard after turning over the soil with the garden […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Weeds in the Yard
4/20/2021 – Last year’s spraying the lawn with Weed Free Zone worked well but we have a lot of Florida Betony, Spider Wort, and more back this year. We did not spray before the greening of the grass so will do so now that it is more mature. The plans below begin with calibrating the […]
Continue ReadingFirst 2021 Daylily Treatment for Rust
4/17/2021 – 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 […]
Continue ReadingFed the Only Surviving Hibiscus
4/17/2021 – Year before last we had four Hibiscus along the meter/switch-box wall and that winter three of them were killed by the cold temperatures. One survived, came back, and did ok last year. This winter again almost killed it but it has leaves coming up out of the mulch. Researching what to feed a […]
Continue ReadingRe-fertilizing after 4.87″ rain in 3 days
4/12/2021 – The heavy rains at the end of last week surely washed out some of the fertilizer—especially the nitrogen and potassium—we have placed in the past month or two. The roses, daylilies, grass, i.e. everything else is/was setting buds and on the way to being the best yard we ever achieved. To preserve that […]
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