Sprayed and Fed Mary’s Garden
9/24/2020 – The flea beetles are also on the small plants. Sprayed everything except the peppers with Spinosad. She fed most with fish emulsion including the tomatoes.
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Sprayed Flea Beetles, Cut Out Damage, & Fed
9/23/2020 – Mary picked swiss chard but it all had some dead and live flea beetles. All leaves were speckled with their damage as they were everywhere. Threw it in the compost. Sprayed Bug-No-More on: Chard Cabbages Broccoli new little Tendergreen mustard radishes mustard 9/24/2020 – Cut off all leaves of the chard and saw […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Squash, Pumpkins, & Satsuma in Garden
9/11/2020 – Sprayed Spinosad for: Found three large (1/2″ dia.) whitish worms on the satsuma Found flea beetles and the usual gnats on the pumpkins and squash.
Continue ReadingPumpkins & Squash still have gnat-type flying bugs and more little black eggs
9/2/2020 – Despite two sprayings of malathion the little black flying bugs are still all over the pumpkin and squash blooms and there appears to be more of the small shiny black eggs clustered on the leaves. Mixed Bug-No-More at 5 oz/gallon and sprayed them. Within 15 minutes or so they were moving a lot […]
Continue ReadingSprayed all older pumpkins and squash for flea beetles and stink bugs
8/30/2020 – Seeing fresh little black eggs clustered on the leaves and more leaf damage. Saw one shield bug and stomped him. Sprayed malathion on everything in the garden’s new plants that are not sprouting seedlings; i.e. the first two rows from the east and the pumpkin/squash row.
Continue ReadingSprayed Pumpkins and Squash for leaf damage and little black eggs
8/26/2020 – Sprayed malathion on the pumpkins and the squash as there is some leaf damage and a lot of clustered small black eggs.
Continue ReadingSprayed Malathion in the Garden for flea beetles
8/13/2020 – There is leaf damage on the Jack-o-lantern pumpkins and zucchini. Also spray lightly the seedlings in the squash rows.
Continue ReadingSprayed Spinosad On Citrus Trees
8/11/2020 – 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 ReadingSprayed Tomatoes with Bifenthrin
7/14/2020 – Seeing a couple of stink bugs and their damage, and it has been a little over a week since the last spraying, sprayed well the indeterminate tomatoes with Bifenthrin. The determinates are about done and have few tomatoes.
Continue ReadingSprayed Tomatoes with Bifenthrin
7/4/2020 – Did the “weekly” spraying of the tomatoes with bifenthrin because of stink bugs. Since beginning the regular spraying there have been very few. It also had to help to remove the spent squash plants. Note this is the second part of the weekly spraying routine as the first part is with a fungicide […]
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