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Kara 9b SF Bay Area CA
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Yikes, scale!
Comments (16)You do not need to rinse the oils from your plants. Just follow the label directions and all should be fine. The horticultural oils are hardly 'oily', not so that you would notice.... the critters will. The rubbing alcohol is perfectly safe to use on most plants....with NO worry of dessication or leaf damage. After all, think of how it's used (straight) on humans. Mixing up a solution of one part RA to three or four parts water and applying it with a plant mister is a very efficient method of controlling a wide variety of indoor plant pests. Can't help with the orange oil cleaner. Seems to me that it would be ever so much more successful to use one of the wide variety of horticultural oils that are expressly made to control insects. Murphy's (so called) Oil Soaps and similiar don't have one drop of oil in them, by the way, so don't get talked into using something like that. By the way, fish emulsion only works if it has an oil base. It is the oil that is doing the job, not anything else in the emulsion....See MoreScale problems. Again.
Comments (7)I just used Windex on my Haworthia glomerata today, and waited 2 minutes and washed it off, then took a soft brush to finish up the job. I have never had a problem with bugs, insects, scale, mites, whatever with the Sansevieria, I grow mine very hard, they look like African plants, Mr. Clean will kill ants, and they don't come back. I have used good Whisky when out of Alcohol, and it works, Vodka is too strong. I do a check every morning so nothing like mealies get ahead of me. Tomorrow morning I will check the Haworthia again, it will not be returned to the bench for at least a week. Norma...See MoreScale (cottony maple?) attacking preziosas. How hard can I prune?
Comments (4)It's a cottony maple scale, indeed, and for the last 2-3 years we have a severe infestation here in New England. Due to their life cycle they are very hard to get rid of completely. As far as I know (from my own experience) only Safari (Dinotefuran) if applied twice a year (at the right time) AND for two years on a row could give you complete freedom from the beast. Re: as far as hydrangeas concerns. If you cut them to the ground now then by the next year you'll have a nice healthy rejuvenated shrubs. P.S. Every leaf and branch from infected plants must be burned, not composted....See MoreLayout experts..help! Gut redo, remove walls, etc?
Comments (39)So here's my train of thought on this one. Move the TV to the right of the fireplace (closing up that window), Change the french doors to a 6' wide fixed casement picture window, and add a full-lite swinging door to the short wall to the deck. The goals being 1) your view will actually be much better through a giant picture window than french doors 2) make full use of that former mudroom by fully incorporating it into the kitchen 3) direct traffic around kitchen. We have a mountain view and the house used to have a sliding glass door in the living room. The center frame of the slider went right through the middle of my mountain, so I changed the slider to a big 6' picture window; it frames the mountain perfectly now. We added a full-lite swinging exterior door for access to the deck in a location that doesn't impede view as much. My kitchen isn't much bigger than your mudroom, so I don't exactly know what one would do with approximately 24'x10' worth of designated kitchen space. That's huge. Don't pay too much attention to where I put kitchen fixtures as I just kind of threw them in there. I just wanted to toss out the idea of changing the doors. Also, it's nice to be able to see the fire and the TV at the same time, right? :-)...See Moreewwmayo
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