Yes, that was a cheesy reference to Star Trek, which hubby and I went and saw last week to start our Memorial weekend off right. It was great by the way.
Things in our garden have been not so great. I was taking a closer look at our broccoli and found this:
At first I was thinking, maybe they aren't getting enough water. But typically, if a plant is parched, it just gets wilty. They aren't wilty. Naturally, I call Grandpa. He said they're sick - caught a virus. Awesome. I did some Googling, just to confirm what Grandpa was saying, maybe it was something else (hope of hopes). Nope, Google Images confirmed it - our broccoli caught broccoli herp. On top of the illness, I found some tiny aphids. ::grrr::
Grandpa recommended Sevin Dust:
So I see this takes care of bugs, but I needed to clarify if it takes care of the virus. Are the plants salvageable (he said yes)? Did a bug cause the virus? And holy crap, is this gonna spread to my newly acquired tomatoes and peppers?? And something that kills 65 bugs surely cannot be organic.
I guess I had the equivalent of a gardening nervous breakdown. I decided I wanted more information (sorry Grandpa) and went to Tagawa with my picture in tow. And guess what they said - it's not a virus, but a fungus.
Even awesomer.
It's caused from watering at the leaf level (read: sprinkler), versus at the soil level (read: drip). Sure enough, the effected plants are all next to the one sprinkler we still had left. I find this surprising being in Colorado where it is so dry. I water first thing in the morning, around 6:30am, and I really thought that provided enough time for the water to burn off. Guess not.
The nice people at Tagawa loaded us up with fungicide and an insecticidal soap. It turns out, the homemade insecticidal soap I made was useless, because sulfur was removed from common soaps about 3 years ago.
So far, so good. The insecticidal soap seems to be doing the job on the aphids. The broccoli looks a little better too, but still not quite "healed." They will get a weekly spraying of the medicine and hopefully they will rebound.
Post Medicine Broccoli:
Things in our garden have been not so great. I was taking a closer look at our broccoli and found this:
At first I was thinking, maybe they aren't getting enough water. But typically, if a plant is parched, it just gets wilty. They aren't wilty. Naturally, I call Grandpa. He said they're sick - caught a virus. Awesome. I did some Googling, just to confirm what Grandpa was saying, maybe it was something else (hope of hopes). Nope, Google Images confirmed it - our broccoli caught broccoli herp. On top of the illness, I found some tiny aphids. ::grrr::
Grandpa recommended Sevin Dust:
So I see this takes care of bugs, but I needed to clarify if it takes care of the virus. Are the plants salvageable (he said yes)? Did a bug cause the virus? And holy crap, is this gonna spread to my newly acquired tomatoes and peppers?? And something that kills 65 bugs surely cannot be organic.
I guess I had the equivalent of a gardening nervous breakdown. I decided I wanted more information (sorry Grandpa) and went to Tagawa with my picture in tow. And guess what they said - it's not a virus, but a fungus.
Even awesomer.
It's caused from watering at the leaf level (read: sprinkler), versus at the soil level (read: drip). Sure enough, the effected plants are all next to the one sprinkler we still had left. I find this surprising being in Colorado where it is so dry. I water first thing in the morning, around 6:30am, and I really thought that provided enough time for the water to burn off. Guess not.
The nice people at Tagawa loaded us up with fungicide and an insecticidal soap. It turns out, the homemade insecticidal soap I made was useless, because sulfur was removed from common soaps about 3 years ago.
So far, so good. The insecticidal soap seems to be doing the job on the aphids. The broccoli looks a little better too, but still not quite "healed." They will get a weekly spraying of the medicine and hopefully they will rebound.
Post Medicine Broccoli:
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