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10/30/2019 – Fed: Superbloom + fish emulsion to: the Knockout Roses in the kitchen yard and around the front porch, the white & pink roses in the long bed along the driveway the Julia Child yellow roses in the pots and in the Bay Tree bed, the pink rose at the bird feeder/end of the […]
Continue ReadingFed with Miracle Grow and chelated iron. MG was 1T/gallon and poured about 2 T iron in the 2-gallon watering can. Climbing roses at the gate – 2 gallons to each side Julia Child roses and Grandiflora in bay tree bed Pink rose at bird feeder bay leaf tree Sunset Magic crepes white roses outside […]
Continue ReadingMixed 2T of Miracle Grow and about 2T of fish emulsion per gallon and poured it on all the roses.
Continue ReadingPer the advice being followed I sprayed the peppers for the second time with a solution of a rounded tablespoon of Epsom Salts to one gallon of water and added about a tablespoon of Dawn Ultra per gallon. They have a few blooms but not at all what they should. I sprayed all roses with […]
Continue ReadingSprayed: roses with Propiconazole 14.3 for black spot; squash with Liquid Copper Fungicide for Downey mildew on leaves; tomatoes with Epsom salts to improve the flavor and health; bell peppers with new Sevin as cabbage loopers are still eating holes in the new leaves. Several plants now have a few blooms. Maybe the Epsom salts […]
Continue ReadingSprayed Daylilies for Rust and Roses for black spot and botrytis. The frequency of the Rust on the daylilies is much less than when we started spraying…but there is still some. The roses’ botrytis that was/is destroying blooms on the little pink roses at the gate and the hybrid teas at the Bay Tree bed […]
Continue ReadingThe little pink climbing roses on either side of the front gate bloomed heavy for weeks then all of a sudden most blooms turned blackish, shriveled and fell apart over the past 2 days. For the past 3-4 days, some of the blooms on the two white hybrid tea roses in the Bay Tree bed […]
Continue Reading5/15/2019 – As it rained all last weekend, and we forgot to spray them Monday & Tuesday, the daylilies were sprayed today that was __ days since the last spraying. Sprayed them with Mancozeb. Every morning they are deadheaded and the worst of the Rust infected leaves are removed. There is still a lot of […]
Continue Reading4/30/2019 – The black spot has become worse on especially one of the Knock Outs in front to the Guest Room Window. But, I had sprayed it with Spectracide Systemic Fungicide last week. As the Rust is already looking like it is far less on the daylilies, Mary wanted to spray the roses with Mancozeb. […]
Continue Reading4/17/2019 – Mary is calling the feeding dilution blend of fish emulsion, iron chelate, and Miracle Grow–this time it was with Super Bloom–Tom’s Concoction. The blend was 1 Tbs of each per gallon of water as we made the bulk blend put on the roses, daylilies, and other plants last week. This concoction came from […]
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