MaisieD
1984 is not fiction.
I've about given up gardening! My butterfly garden is riddled every undesirable pestilence there is. There are spider mites, aphids, white fly, small moths, the soil has a variety of ants, some kind of small gray bugs, white scale, and powder mildew. There are probably some things I missed.
Since it's my butterfly garden I don't use chemicals. I use a mix of Dr. Woods castile tea tree oil and peppermint soap, alcohol, peroxide, and water. It works for a day or two.
My Roma tomatoes are barely hanging on. I ended up using Seven dust on them. I lost my squash and cucumbers.
Gardening in east central Florida has its challenges. Last year I didn't have all of this trouble, it wasn't perfect but I was able to keep everything alive.
I'm thinking it may be that our weather has been really dry or really rainy. Right now we are real dry with no rain.
I'm going to do some more research. I'm thinking I need to buy seeds that are indigenous to Florida.
I'm not giving up even though yesterday I wanted to yank every blasted plant I own and toss the whole mess.
Since it's my butterfly garden I don't use chemicals. I use a mix of Dr. Woods castile tea tree oil and peppermint soap, alcohol, peroxide, and water. It works for a day or two.
My Roma tomatoes are barely hanging on. I ended up using Seven dust on them. I lost my squash and cucumbers.
Gardening in east central Florida has its challenges. Last year I didn't have all of this trouble, it wasn't perfect but I was able to keep everything alive.
I'm thinking it may be that our weather has been really dry or really rainy. Right now we are real dry with no rain.
I'm going to do some more research. I'm thinking I need to buy seeds that are indigenous to Florida.
I'm not giving up even though yesterday I wanted to yank every blasted plant I own and toss the whole mess.