GARDEN COACH
with Jennifer Brennan
June 24, 2021
TOPICS:
- Summary of Univ of Illinois Plant Clinic
- WATER, WATER, WATER!!! We are now short of rain by 8.5 inches for the year.
- Use the “Divide root area into quarters, count to 5 in each quarter and repeat 3 times”
- Time to weed – Dutch Hoe
- Seen at Diagnostic Desk –
- Magnolia Scale with “honeydew” and black sooty mold
- Immature potato beetle devouring eggplant leaves
- 4-Lined Plant Bug – lots of evidence of damage in the past 2 weeks – got first sample of an insect – solid proof!
- Rose slugs – larva of Rose Sawfly
- Japanese Yew with yellow needles
- Drought damage on foliage
- More 2,4-D damage
- Nipple Gall on Witchhazel
- Powdery Mildew on Roses, Peonies, Honeysuckle, tomatoes, Japanese Maple
- Annual Bluegrass and Rough Bluegrass going dormant in lawns due to high soil temperatures
- Upcoming lawn care – get the summer fertilizer application applied May 31 to June 15 – Summer fertilizer – Espoma (20# BAG, 15-0-5) and Bio-Advanced Weed & Feed - $44.99
- Rabbit (enemy #1) – repel adults and “babies” (seen in my yard!); Start with Liquid Fence Dual Action Rabbit Repellent Rotate PlantSkydd liquid spray and PlantSkydd granular Also add in rotation – Bonide Repels-All liquid and granular
- Fungal disease protection NOW – but due to drought there has been low pressure this year (except for powdery mildew) - it may change with the new heat and humidity
- Weed prevention – use Preen in all garden beds where not planting seeds
- What the horticulturist is doing in her garden:
- Watering every other day since we are technically in a drought – to save all the garden plants and to keep the grass seed that I applied consistently moist.
- Tools for Success(products) that I love to use – Dr. Earth Vegetable Planting Mix, Rat Magic, BioAdvanced Rose & Flower All In One, Preen and GrubEX
- I am having success with Bonide Rat Magic used as a perimeter band around my raised bed vegetable garden for the rodents but not the rabbits
- All my vine seeds germinated – Purple Hyacinth Bean, Moon Vine and Morning Glory!
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