Winter Pest Frustrations
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Comments (19)Wow, Particentral that is a fantastic, amazing link besides just the wilt beetle reference with great explanatory photos of various rose problems. Thanks very much!!! for sharing it. I am actually forwarding your link to Jim1961, for other rose disease issues that he is wondering about. Particentral you do have a point that certain beetles do have a tendency to leave very-hard-to-detect scars (when they just pierce and then suck out the juices of a plant. My roses will often get tiny freckle marks from that darn cucumber beetle and if they were to suck out a large dark stem, instead of the lighter colored blooms it'd be very hard to detect because the freckle marks would be covered up by the camouflage of the bruising mark that always accompanies the bent stem. Also the ruined stem are not any more soft than my normal stems-only 2 are new growth stems anyway and two are mature older stems. I only use Gardenville Sea Tea as my fertilizer right now (no previous change in the dose except for maybe a few days'longer stretch because of the heavy rains). But it can't hurt to cut down on the fertilizer dose and watch for more beetles at the same time. Maybe just too many factors--rain, needing less fertilizer for the fall season, a beetle that got greedy on the new stems, a stray frisbee on one of my roses. I'd love to see photos or photo links of the beetles that get to your Dahlias too, to see if I've got any similar looking pests. But yeah, that wilt beetle damage does look like my damage to a tee. If New_York_Rose hadn't said South Africa, I would have said aha! there's my culprit....See MorePests, diseases, & other frustrations
Comments (2)Welcome to the FN forum impatientgardener! You live in Cochrane, lucky you! I love that area of AB! We were just talking about Spittle Bugs a week or so ago, give them a good blast of water from the hose to knock them off your plants. For Rose Weevils, I had a real problem last year, they seem to be more attracted to white or light pink roses.... knock on wood but I haven't seen any this year so far, the best control method is to keep on top of it by removing and destroying affected flowerbuds on a daily basis, tedious I know, but it works. Hope you enjoy it here & Happy Gardening! Sharon...See Morelow hoop for winter brassica bed...pests from summer a problem?
Comments (2)I have had mixed results growing winter brassicas organically in a 7 climate . The City garden , which is regularly patrolled by a flock of habituated tiny birds , does not get aphids etc any more except on the bottom leaves where the birds don't land . The Island garden has seen the leaves eaten down to the very STALKS by crickets . I have personally never tried growing them under cover except in the very earliest spring when I dig and plant lettuce and broccoli seeds right after the first frost and cover with remay to keep birds off and provide a bit of insulation against harsh weather . My kale and broccoli , gorgeous blue cabbage and brussels sprouts and leeks seem to do JUST FINE coverless over the winter . As soon as the increased sunlight hits in Febuary I can start harvesting tender new leaves and even flowers ....See Morewinter jasmine frustrations
Comments (2)I have no experience with bonzai winter jasmine but there are a couple of thoughts which spring to mind. Firstly is to establish exactly what the plant is. Is this Jasminum nudiflorum? If so, my second thought is to wonder how an enormous sprawling shrub capable of covering many square yards can be kept as a bonzai for very long. I have seen these on offer but I think that keeping them dwarf AND getting flowers is bound to be difficult. And that leads me to the third point. In order to keep the plant small has it been pruned? If so it is possible that the flower buds have been cut off. Winter jasmine should be pruned immediately after flowering if it is pruned at all. Keeping it clipped back will almost certainly result in loss of flowers unless done very skillfully at the right time. Do you think that is what has happened to yours?...See Moresunshine (zone 6a, Ontario,Canada)
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