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Young mealy bugs
So, I inspected my bay laurel today on a whim. It appears that I brought mealy bugs in on my bay laurel. 😑 I can't see adults yet. I picked off what I could see & wiped all leaves & stems down with rubbing alcohol. I inspected the pot (which I transplanted it into) and the top of the soil, which was newer, topped up with…
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Wooly Aphids Any Experience With Them
Another pest problem for me. 😢 I looked it up and am pretty sure this is a Wooly Aphid. There are spider like webs on the plant as well. I read that they don't kill the plant but flicked several in soapy water and sprayed some neem oil solution on it. They've made a home in my pomegranate bush. Sigh...I think I'm going to…
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Pests on my cucumbers.
There’s a bunch of bugs along my cucumber vines. I’m very new to growing food and am trying to gain knowledge as I go. I took a couple of pictures, but so far my search results haven’t been very helpful. They always scurry to the other side of the stems when I get close. I was hoping someone could tell me what I’m dealing…
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Is Dawn better?
I often see recipes for garden solutions that say to use "Dawn dish soap". Is Dawn any better than the other brands, or are we just used to saying "Dawn" for dishwashing liquid, like we say "Kleenex" for tissues? Has anyone used Dawn for a garden solution that worked, when the same solution made with a different brand of…
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Jerusalem artichoke vs. pests
I see claims that Jerusalem artichoke has no natural enemies, and can produce a lot of food tubers with little issue. This has not been the case for me. I now wonder if the writers who report no pests on Jerusalem artichoke (also known as sunchoke) were planting it outside its wild range. In the past, most of my sunchoke…
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Blueberry flowers are drying up or have been eaten
Hello fellow gardeners. I am fairly new to blueberry plant and have a couple of questions. My blueberry bushes are just in their second season. The one plant got all kinds of white flowers but now they look like they are drying up or have been eaten. Why would this happen? MY other blueberry bush did not flower this year…
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Snail and slug season
After an unusually hot and dry May, the weather has cooled off and a lot of rain has fallen in the past week. And suddenly, the snails and slugs have returned. Every year, my garden gets large numbers of tiny snails smaller than the fingernail on a pinky finger. Slugs are less common, but larger. This morning I walked…
