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Post by fallkniven on Jul 31, 2012 10:31:19 GMT -7
Does anyone have a way to exterminate aphids? They're like the bloody plague! Constantly brushing them and the crap they leave on my plants each week. Oddly enough, only the ones on a window cill with the window constantly open are infected. Ones on a cill that is never open are fine. I've tried diluting washing up liquid with water and applying it to the leaves primarily to kill the little buggers, but the design of the plant, it's very difficult to get them all without damaging it. For the record, the plants are Sempervivum and they grow in rosettes. They mostly congregate on the bottom of the leaves and in the narrow gap between leaves right near the centre, so it's extremely difficult to get them. A Semper;
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Post by ccove on Aug 1, 2012 8:44:47 GMT -7
Does anyone have a way to exterminate aphids? They're like the bloody plague! Constantly brushing them and the crap they leave on my plants each week. Oddly enough, only the ones on a window cill with the window constantly open are infected. Ones on a cill that is never open are fine. I've tried diluting washing up liquid with water and applying it to the leaves primarily to kill the little buggers, but the design of the plant, it's very difficult to get them all without damaging it. For the record, the plants are Sempervivum and they grow in rosettes. They mostly congregate on the bottom of the leaves and in the narrow gap between leaves right near the centre, so it's extremely difficult to get them. A Semper; I have never seen aphids on hen and chicks, that is interesting. I use insectidial soap. it is great and after two sprays they are usually gone for about two weeks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 10:05:39 GMT -7
When planting tomatoes...dig a trench and aly the plant in it with all but the very tip sticking out. They will grow roots all along the buried stalk, and the tip will grow to be a very bushy plant and produce lots of maters. This helps to keep indeterminate plants from getting so long and spindly before setting on, making them more manageable and less apt to break off.
When setting out a garden, try to run your rows east to west with the tallest plants to the northern side. This will help all the plants to get the most sunlight available. This will also keep the main winds (runnign esat to weat) from damaging the rows that would otherwise be crossways...IE: corn rows won't get laid down, etc.
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Post by thywar on Aug 1, 2012 10:34:14 GMT -7
When planting tomatoes...dig a trench and aly the plant in it with all but the very tip sticking out. They will grow roots all along the buried stalk, and the tip will grow to be a very bushy plant and produce lots of maters. This helps to keep indeterminate plants from getting so long and spindly before setting on, making them more manageable and less apt to break off. When setting out a garden, try to run your rows east to west with the tallest plants to the northern side. This will help all the plants to get the most sunlight available. This will also keep the main winds (runnign esat to weat) from damaging the rows that would otherwise be crossways...IE: corn rows won't get laid down, etc. Those are some great tips Dink. I should have done it that way when I built my raised garden.. I did in fact have my corn blown over this year (in my North South garden..) My next raised garden will be E to W. Thanks
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Post by cowgirlup on Jul 17, 2013 5:21:27 GMT -7
This year I tried some tips to keep pests off various plants.
One was to plant mint near cabbage type plants to repel pests. It did nothing for the green cabbage worms. The other was to plant nasturtiums in with beans to repel pests. So far I haven't seen any bean beetles on the beans in those rows. Although I planted 2 short rows (baby lima and a soup bean) without and they don't have any beetles either. It obviously doesn't work on Japanese beetles because I've picked them right off the nasturtiums. The rows look pretty too.
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Post by insaneh on Jul 17, 2013 7:16:36 GMT -7
Here's one I figure most people know but if not it does work. To keep slugs off your plants, save your egg shells. Rinse them out, let them dry and crush them coarsely. Sprinkle around the plants that are getting attacked by slugs. The slugs don't want to cross the eggshells because their bodies are soft so it cuts them to cross it. If you have raised beds, you can add a strip of copper around the base. Slugs won't cross it because it shocks them.
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Post by cowgirlup on Aug 10, 2014 10:22:15 GMT -7
I tried a new remedy I found online for powdery mildew on squash. So far it's not gotten worse and looks a little better. I trimmed off the worst leaves and then sprayed them with:
1 part nonfat or skim milk to 9 parts water. I added a pinch of baking soda. Mix in a spray bottle and spray the leaves and stems in the morning.
The sites I read this on say no one is sure why the milk helps and that a higher concentration of milk in the mix can cause some other type of mildew. The baking soda helps with the PH level on the plants.
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