gardening help, please

**iwishiwasthere** · 05-20-2006, 07:44 PM

I just noticed the flowers in my cutting garden have spots on the leaves.

Researching suggested spraying with a milk solution. ANy other suggestions? I also planted a hydrangea there and now am concerned about it getting whatever is on my plants. Okay, I am not so plant savvy so guide me in the right direction.

**Allifunn** · 05-20-2006, 07:46 PM

can't help you girl...gum thumb...but I wish you luck!

**Rita** · 05-20-2006, 07:48 PM

Can you post a pic of the spots? If they are bacterial or fungal leaf spots, NEEM Oil should help. Natural oil from Neem tree. What plants are they on?

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**Mermaid** · 05-20-2006, 07:56 PM

What do the spots look like? Green, brown, black? In clusters or here and there?
Here's a website to get you started in identifying what might be the problem
http://www.cdcg.org/pests.html (though there are lots of other helpful gardening websites out there in addition to this one). You might want to call your county extension agency and describe the specific problem because garden pest differ from region to region. What plagues my plants might not do the same to yours!

**Beach Crazy** · 05-20-2006, 07:57 PM

Ohhhh Merrrrrmaiddddd!!! IWIWT needs your assistance in the lounge please

**Mermaid** · 05-20-2006, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Beach Crazy

Ohhhh Merrrrrmaiddddd!!! IWIWT needs your assistance in the lounge please

Beach Crazy! How is your garden growing these days?? Is everything nicely planted and looking pretty for you?

**Beach Crazy** · 05-20-2006, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by Mermaid

Beach Crazy! How is your garden growing these days?? Is everything nicely planted and looking pretty for you?

Well actually I planted 3 elephant ear bulbs and then went to SoWal

**InletBchDweller** · 05-20-2006, 08:38 PM

I am also having black spots on the underside of my lemon tree...and also these crazy white bugs that jump and put stuff that looks like cotton on some of my other plants...arrrrrrrrrrrrggggg!!!!

**audie** · 05-20-2006, 09:31 PM

i am waiting for the landscapers to come and do my yard - does that tell you anything besides the fact that i am lazy ??

**iwishiwasthere** · 05-21-2006, 09:05 AM

Not lazy...smart.I had thefront landscaped, but thought I cuold pull off a small flower garden.

I keep trying to find the "green thumb" gene my dad had. My way of still connecting with him since he is no longer here....and am even considering taking up fishing, an activity I despised as a child.

**Rita** · 05-22-2006, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by InletBchDweller

I am also having black spots on the underside of my lemon tree...and also these crazy white bugs that jump and put stuff that looks like cotton on some of my other plants...arrrrrrrrrrrrggggg!!!!

iwiwt, Those are most likely a kind of woolly planthopper. Citrus is a host plant among lots of plants.

We've seen them in the nursery for the last 3 years. Don't seem to do much damage - just unsightly. So you may choose to just wait til they go away. Soap may work on some stages that aren't covered with the "woolly fuzz". Again the Neem oil, or Ultrafine Oil may work to suffocate them if you find they are too many to tolerate. Follow directions carefully and don't use more than it says.
After June or July you probably won't see them anymore.

nymph and adult

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**InletBchDweller** · 05-22-2006, 10:52 AM

Yes those photos are the culprit...I just bought something at Act this morning and just now have sprayed it....I will see if it works.....Thanks for the info.....

Originally Posted by Rita

iwiwt, Those are most likely a kind of woolly planthopper. Citrus is a host plant among lots of plants.

We've seen them in the nursery for the last 3 years. Don't seem to do much damage - just unsightly. So you may choose to just wait til they go away. Soap may work on some stages that aren't covered with the "woolly fuzz". Again the Neem oil, or Ultrafine Oil may work to suffocate them if you find they are too many to tolerate. Follow directions carefully and don't use more than it says.
After June or July you probably won't see them anymore.

nymph and adult

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