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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 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 Reading3/4/2021 – The Jacks Citrus FeED 20-10-20 by JR Peters arrived today. Mixed it per the instructions at 1 tbsp per gallon; i.e. 2 tbsp in the 2-gallon watering cans. Poured one can—2 gallons—on each of the lemon, satsuma trees, and the blood orange tree; including the one at the garden. The Meyer lemon was […]
Continue Reading3/3/2021 – Fertilized lightly with 8-8-8+sulfur the citrus trees in the yard and the satsuma next to the garden.
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11/8/2020 – This is the second year for the two Meyer Lemons and both have borne a good crop. The west one is really loaded. Winter of 2020-21 we had three extended freezes into the low to mid 20°. The Meyer lemon that bore profusely last season tried to come back but did not and […]
Continue Reading10/8/2020 – Sprayed the lemons and satsumas with Spinosad for the second time in this series to stop the leaf miners.
Continue Reading9/27/2020 – Mixed 2 gallons of Monterey Spinosad (from the new 1-gallon jug delivered last week) at 2 oz/gallon plus non-ionic surfactant. Sprayed the following. All plants in the garden that again have flea beetles. mustard butternut squash white scalloped squash beets broccoli radish did not spray the peppers or flowers All plants in Mary’s […]
Continue Reading5/16/2020 – Spread 13-13-13 to just beyond the leaf line on: all citrus and fruit trees in their small orchard the satsuma and sand pear tree at the garden Threw some into the aspidistra hoping that will make them start growing.
Continue Reading1/27/2020 – Fed the following 13-13-13 spread by throwing handfuls around the trees. All citrus in the yard citrus grove and the satsuma in the big garden. The peach and pear trees in the grove and the old Sand Pear next to the big garden
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