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Dave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
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Cosmos covered with powdery stuff after rain, help :(
Comments (9)first ... get over the guilt/unhappiness .. every flower has its season .. and sometimes that season is not long.. you wouldnt complain.. that a tulip only blooms for a week.. would you??? so be happy for your success .. and move on ... crimminey.. you grew them from an embryo ... aka .. a seed ... second.. it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SPOT .. meaning the soil ... see PS ...... its a cultural problem.. most mildews.. occur and thrive during hot, humid NIGHTS [perhaps they are the vampires of the garden] ... my PM does anyway ... and i will yell.. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SOIL .... CULTURE is how the plant is treated above ground .. as in heat.. sun.. humid nights.. etc ... though the spores.. if that is the right term.. can be on the soil surface i suppose .... but once disturbed.. that should not be an issue ... and probably solved simply with a mulch ... [and rhiz can correct me again.. if i am wrong.. lol] ... amending planting holes.. ONLY .. can lead to problems.. you really should NOT throw things ONLY in holes.. just because you have it laying around ... a little perlite.. is NOT going to change the drainage capacity of a clay soil ... especially not a hole dug into a poor soil ... BTW .. if you are growing.. and succeeding with rose.. what i consider one of the most foo.. of the foo foo ... you really shouldnt be all wrapped up in problems with cosmos ... you really are.. much further ahead.. than you consider yourself ... ken ps: i said it has nothing to do with the spot.. but one thing that reduces it.. is night air movement.. when things are too jammed together.. and air movement is restricted.. that culture.. can make a problem explode.. PM is endemic in monarda also ... it was a nightmare for me way back.. so i dug it up and set it in full sun ... by itself.. and the problem was reduced significantly .. and the biggest thing.. culture again.. was that i learned not to come home from work.. and in the late evening.. give everything a shower with the hose.. if your plants go into dark.. DRY!!! ... again.. you reduce the 'potential' greatly ... darn.. the PS is getting longer than the reply.. lol ... reducing potential.. would be part of IPM .. integrated pest management.. and should be next on your learning curve.. so as to reduce the need to run to the chemical bin.. and getting out the sprayer.. every time something is not perfect ... [PM is not a pest.. per se .. but it would be within the concept of such.. wouldnt it???] PPS: .. if i were to be thinking of spraying the roses.. i would have cut the cosmos to the first or second buds.. down near 6 inches.. and then sprayed those with the the roses.. and with severe canopy reduction.. removal of the PM.. and an intact mature root system.. they probably would have been back to 3 feet in weeks ... it would have been a neat experiment ... and would have increased your learning curve.. had you not had the chicken little complex of utter destruction ... based on fear .. there is a mixed metaphor for you .. lol...See Morewhite powdery stuff on the dirt after rain fall
Comments (5)Mildew? Fungus? Get down really close and get a good look at it. Does it have a sort of spider-webby appearance? Is it fuzzy like mold? Just from your description, of it showing up after rain and under plants (like squash, that do a good job of shading), I'd guess it's fungus or mildew in spots where the ground is slow to dry out....See MoreStuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff!
Comments (61)"Just wait until you have to pack up all that crap and move it." My SIL just bought a retirement home so they are decluttering their current house as a preparation for selling it--she keeps telling me she can't believe how much STUFF she's got to get rid of. When I go to their house I always admire how it looks nicely organized and without extraneous things all over. However, I also admire her tons of closets and storage space which she says leads to keeping, you guessed it, all that stuff LOL. I've decided I will play a mental game this summer and pretend we have to move; maybe that will be my motivation to get rid of much unnecessary and unused stuff in our house! I use the holidays and shopping for gifts to satisfy any yen I may have to be a retail hunter/gatherer. The past few years I increasingly feel as if I am gorging myself after staying on a careful and healthy diet; by the time January comes I feel so psychically bloated from all the shopping /buying that I need another year to rest up and recover! It's interesting to me to watch my young adult daughter who is setting up her first home. She loveslovesloves Home Goods, Marshalls, Pier 1 etc. And when I go with her I usually find stuff I could easily buy. I have a rule that I can't take anything from those places home the day I see it. That usually short circuits the purchase, I'm rarely motivated enough to fight the traffic and crowds to go back a second time!...See MoreAnything I can do about these berries raining down from the tree?
Comments (6)That's either a strangler fig or a banyan tree. The berries are not the worst of your problems. It's way too close to your house, and their roots can destroy your foundation. If you're not attached to it, take it out & have the stump killed and ground out....See Morerhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
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