Stickfigure Gardening with Leonardo de Stickfigure

Stickfigure Gardening with Leonardo de Stickfigure
The Stickfigure Family

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Spider Mites are hungry

The spider mites are wreaking havoc later than their usual time during the hot summer months here in Oklahoma.  I made up a high pressure sprayer to attack them from underneath the leaves.  Seven dust is just not doing it.  They seem to adapt to it quite readily.  My yard-long beans have been hit by both spider mites and aphids.  And so they are pretty much spent except for gathering seed for next year.   The tomato  plant seemed to respond well to the treatment and so did the Chinese cabbage.  My starts on the potting bench have also been hit hard, probably because I have not been repoting   them as they grow.  If they are allowed to remain in small pots they tend to dry out faster than I can keep them watered.  Also, despite the ad on the label, they needed fertilizing too.

I did set out the 2nd set of broccoli starts and they seem to be doing well.

Set out the pansies starts I bought from Lowe's in two patches on the front bed after preparing the soil with plenty of compost.  I use rough compost to mulch them.

Trimmed the potted moss rose and fertilized them and they are responding well and starting to bloom again.








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