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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Southwest Florida
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Central Florida
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Thank you so much Marsha. Somehow I must have signed off. I didn't get any emails for a long time, then I discovred I wasn;t logged in. Anyway I'm cutting my gardens down quite a bit. Hate the thought of eating more store bought food, but I guess I will get used to it.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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I foliar fed my broccoli last year with Neptune's Harvest products like seaweed, fish, and the combined one. I saw a big difference. The broccoli is planted in raised beds covered with weed barrier and holes cut out for the broccoli. The weed barrier allows water, etc to go through so it is possible that the benefit comes b/c the moisture is getting to the roots.
I use a hose end sprayer that I LOVE so it's not like I am misting the leaves. I can do the entire garden in 10 minutes. ---- I started FF the tomatoes as an insect (Tomato Russet mite) deterrent. I started with plants I didn't care about and then graduated to all plants but the seedlings. It's not that I think kelp is a bug spray, but the mites like it dry, so if I'm going to wet it, I might as well try to give them some benefit. I spray UP the plant. For tomatoes, I definitely see more benefit with the ones in the root pouches (ie uncovered) than the ones in the EB. And the ones in wide root pouches see the most benefit. I think because more of the solution will fall into the Root Pouch. ---- This year for foliar feeding, I'm using soluble kelp or extreme blend (both from Kelp 4 less). I think extreme blend is what really works on the broccoli. I think the kelp is better for the mites on the tomato plant. Another thing, I have these small spiders that make webs between cages etc. The spraying water or anything really deters them. |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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Have you thought about growing MicroGreens? Really nutritious and EASY PEASY. No garden space required. The mix I use to grow the MG, I save and use for tomatoes, so no waste. |
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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---- Is everyone seeing a lot of moths/butterflies/ tiny caterpillars on their leaves? |
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Southwest Florida
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I've also started seeing these tiny beetles the size of a pin point on some of my peppers. They have black bodies with a red head. Bigger than a mite, smaller than a typical beetle. Not sure what they are, but I did catch an assasin bug on one of my tomatoes, which I thought was pretty cool. |
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#3203 |
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Still trying to figure out what a root aphid is.
Whiteflies appear as tiny black flies on the yellow sticky traps, because they dry and turn color, and shrink. Maybe they are there? |
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Southwest Florida
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Could be, but the flies on my traps are typically larger leafminer types and fungus gnats, but bc the tanglefoot is smeared on a little thicker it may obscure a lot of the details of the insects that are caught. Where did you order your traps from? I got mine on Amazon from DCS solutions, the shipping is taking forever.
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Homestead,Everglades City Fl.
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What ever it is ,a soil drench pesticide application in successive generation drenches(life cycle of the critter your are targeting) will knock down the ever emerging eggs,larvae’s,pupae that seem to crawl out and up the plants.Keeping in mind the flowering stage,vegetative,harvest etc.Almost a crapshoot if you will.Nothing a bottle of 20 plus years of a Glennfeddich single malt cant handle!Its a race.Remember you are battling multiple insects at a time.Taking a dream now....sip.
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Watch the price, it fluctuates. This Is the most expensive I have seen them. I am so glad you are getting the Seabright brand. So much safer for wildlife. Your yellow homemade traps can be made safely and effectively with vaseline. |
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Southwest Florida
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They arrived today but the order is wrong. I ordered 30 of them for $38 shipped which I thought was a little pricey for what they are, but only 5 arrived. Now I have to wait for the company to get back to me on how to proceed. If they try to tell me the offer was for 5 I'm returning them. I thought eBay was bad but I guess it can happen on Amazon too. Those traps look an awful lot like the ones I made out of a folder. I took a pic today of the trap on my cucumber plant. Can you see any whiteflies? The bugs I zoomed in on were the only ones that were similar in size to a whitefly, the rest are much bigger.
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NJ, zone 7
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About Root aphids.
https://gardening.which.co.uk/hc/en-...29-Root-aphids https://freemygreenpdx.com/topic/148...t-root-aphids/ I had them last year on two of my tomato plants. Plants were not growing and getting wilted easily. I knew something was eating their roots. I dug it out and there were small things like the once on the pictures on the roots. I washed roots and covered with lots DE and replanted. One survived but production was not as good and the other did not. I poured hot water in the area they were growing. Hope the bugs did not survive and spread. Now I am thinking, it was first year I started composting. It is possible that they came with composted parts of fruits or vegetables. O, boy.
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Did you go to my link for the 15? Even at $17 there's still a lot better price if you ordered two packs you don't even have to pay for the shipping I believe. Course if your Amazon Prime you don't pay the shipping anyway. |
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Southwest Florida
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