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6/8/2021 – Mary noticed some and when I looked to see what we sprayed last year this post last June told the story; i.e. Imidacloprid is good for 12 months and that is what we got. Last year and the year before we had a far worse infestation than this year. Sprayed all of them […]
Continue Reading4/25/2021 – 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 Reading4/25/2021 – 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 Reading4/19/2021 – Because termites were a problem with the firewood last year we treated the dirt before placing the pecan firewood from the recent tree removals. Poured a 2% solution of Bifintren-IT 7.9% between the log supports after digging out the leaves and debris to create trenches. Poured a total of 12 gallons mixed in […]
Continue Reading4/15/2021 – On a cloudy afternoon sprayed the satsumas, orange and lemon trees with Spinosad to hopefully prevent leaf miners for damaging the leaves.
Continue Reading3/7/2021 – Using the first planning for this application of fertilizer and ant killer here, we: mixed 8 ounces by weight of Extinguish (that filled a Ball quart wide mouth jar almost up to the top of the “B” in Ball) into one 50 lb. bag of 15-0-15+3% iron from AGFA in the wheelbarrow with […]
Continue Reading11/27/2020 – Both gardens are infested with very small dark flies whose wings stick straight out, fly away fast and are knocked down by the Spinosad. There are many small round holes in the leaves of the mustards and some in the cabbage, radish, bok choy, and chard leaves. This plants were wet from the […]
Continue Reading11/20/2020 – The mustards, bok choy, and to some extent the cabbage have bug holes occurring again so sprayed them with Spinosad in both gardens.
Continue Reading11/9/2020 – The greens and Bak Choi have bug eaten holes more prevalent and so sprayed them all with Spinosad. The cabbage also had a few holes so sprayed them lightly overall and heavier on the plants with the holes.
Continue Reading10/20/2020 – Flea beetles are eating her plants so sprayed all plants other than the peppers, Tia Basil, and onions with the last of the Spinosad bought at Hurley F&S.
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