-Thrips are under control for the most part. Combo of yellow flowered "pull" plants and deltamethrin seems to have done the trick. The local population of
Frankliniella occidentalis plaguing my garden is resistant to diazinone. Monitoring progress with sticky traps in yellow and blue, fingers crossed I'm over the hump.
-Next week I'll return to my usual Neem/food grade DE and Copper.
-Mammoth Microbials (samples)and Harpin proteins are contributing, as is Sea Green Foliar (I really dig this stuff).
-Compost-alfalfa tea brewing as I type this and will be twice a week for the next couple of months.
-Planted 6 types of marigolds, Pincushion-Sweet Scabious, and lots of Alyssum. These will be my ongoing "pull" plants, they'll live right under the citrus trees and at the end of the tube runs.
-Chem-Gro/cal nitrate/mag-sulfate is easy. Some plants really like it, others turn purple and cry. We'll keep the ones that say
"more please."
Here are the replacements for the felled plants:
Overall views. The runs in the opposite direction have a trellis set up to receive the cukes (Excelsior, Sweet Success, Super Zagross, Neva Bride, Calypso, Lemon, Delikatesse). The 2nd pic you can see some of the youngins.
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Elgin Pink
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Delicious Larisa Vorlon
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Cowlick's and Polish Linguisa
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Cowlick's and Larisa
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Kiss the Sky and Dora
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Larisa and Cascade Lava
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Larisa
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Grandma Oliver's Chocolate
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Terhune and Odoriko
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TN Heirloom and Dester
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Koroleva and Pink Rafaello
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Current "pull" plants for thrips
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Fred's TD, one of my favorites
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