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7/3/2020 – 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.
Continue Reading6/17/2020 – Late afternoon, sprayed tomatoes with Spinosad. Only saw one stink bug. The green tomatoes do not have the many stink bug punctures like last year…so far. The next morning, before leaving for Houston, sprayed them with Dakonil fungicide for the continuing Late Blight. The Roma’s and Beef Stakes have it worse than any […]
Continue Reading6/10/2020 – After 7 inches of rain over three days from TS Cristobal, sprayed the tomatoes with Daconil fungicide (Active Ingredient Chlorothalonil) at 1 Tbsp per gallon. Sprayed 2 gallons. This was the first time to use Daconil in the garden. Daconil was recommended for vegetables that are close to harvest as Mancozeb has a […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Propiconazole 14.3 at 2 oz./gal on all daylilies. Those that have little if any Rust only got lighter spraying.
Continue Reading5/16/2020 – Sprayed all the roses. Some black spot is showing up on the Knock Outs and a lot on the white floribundas outside the guest room window. Blooms this year have been great with the little-pink vining roses at the gate lasting far longer than last year when botrytis ruined them.
Continue Reading5/5/2020 – When watering and weeding this morning we found black spots on the 1st PEPH peas (Alternaria leaf blight) and white/tan spots and decayed areas on the yellow squash and a few on the Zucchini. Sprayed 1.5 gallons on them with the last of the Bonide and a little Southern Ag Copper based fungicide […]
Continue Reading4/24/2020 – Sprayed about a gallon of Mancozeb+Spreader Sticker on all roses for black spot and botrytis blight. Sprayed the daylilies that have some rust but did not drench them as we will very soon hit them with Dawn and Incinclopedia (sp?). Per the ARS here, we should repeat this in 5 days and that […]
Continue Reading4/9/2020 – Sprayed Mancozeb on all roses for black spot and botrytis. Fed them the same as done in January as they are blooming and looking more healthy than ever before. The small pink vining roses either side of the gate have very small buds. Hopefully, this spraying will prevent bloom loss from botrytis.
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