The battle to eliminate Salal begins - tips??
Wayne Reibold
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Dealing with Water-Retentive Soils
Comments (80)Thank you. My question doesn't relate to avoiding salt buildup in the soil, though. I am asking about ways to facilitate gas exchange at the root zone in soils that lack proper aeration for this to happen passively. Since the act of watering displaces soil gasses, pushing out what is already there and drawing in fresh oxygen behind the water, I was curious if watering on a more frequent schedule than necessary would help mitigate the lack of passive gas exchange. Of course, you would have to manually drain the PWT each watering. There seem to be two benefits of a highly aerated container soil, from what I have read and understood so far, and they are closely related: 1. Reduces or eliminates areas that allow no gas exchange (the dreaded PWT - waterlogged areas with insufficient oxygen available for roots to respire) 2. Reduces or eliminates areas that allow insufficient gas exchange (compacted areas where the available oxygen is quickly used up and the other gasses, byproducts of root respiration, end up trapped instead of being able to diffuse out to allow new oxygen in). Now, 1. can be addressed, in part or completely, by the methods described in this thread. Ways to manually drain the soil's PWT when the soil is too dense for it to drain away passively. Are there similar strategies for dealing with 2. manually when a soil is too dense for reasonable gas exchange to occur passively? Will a more frequent watering schedule act as a manual gas exchange?...See Morepowdery mildew?
Comments (21)Hi Jack, There is a misconception that one can clean the air of powdery mildew using different filters and such. Powdery mildew spores are everywhere. Running an ozone machine is not going to get rid of powdery mildew in a room that is not completely sealed off from the rest of the world. They say that the air in the average home gets replaced several times a day. Powdery mildew will be coming in to any room from the outside faster than it could possibly be killed or filtered. African violets do not get powdery mildew because there is an abundance of it in the air. Powdery mildew is an environmental problem. Plants get powdery mildew because they are stressed in some way. Bad watering habits, heat, cold and lack of circulating air are all things that can stress African violets. I find the latter to be the biggest culprit for me. That is why I have small fans blowing on my violets stands. Once you get an infection it is important that you treat it. It hardly ever goes away by itself. I hope this helps, Larry...See MoreUPDATE: new-obf "let us know more-let us know more!"
Comments (55)Good morning! I too try to visualize people and it rarely, if ever, works out. it is nice to put faces to names. Shirley, still thinking of you and keeping you in my prayers. i know that's your daughter, brittney and dawson -- who are the others (inquiring nosey minds want to know) and as for your mom, you never know what the next roommate may be, perhaps you can hold off on the move until you see what comes in LOL, however, I think I'd want to be with my own and her secrets kept!!!! annie your dogs are beautiful, as are you. my aunt and uncle, for as long as i can remember, were the first home for service dogs until they were ready to go into training. they had several different dogs from what i recall. sorry about your lizzie...i know how hard it is to lose a beloved pet. my next dog is going to be a shepherd, but it's been decided that we will only have one dog at a time now, so I have to wait my turn. (we'll see) i made an anniversary cake for a group i belong to, it was our 7 year anniversary so i made this massive cake. i filled it with alternating layers of buttercream and lemon curd, and dang, if it was not tasty. I was able to take a slice home for the family to taste and seriously wish there had been more leftover, would have made a nice breakfast!!!! a real nice combination, even though it started out that i was going to use raspberry as well...i just couldn't get enough to cook them down to make a nice sauce/filling. it's still so cold and seems to be staying that way until at least next week, when it's supposed to go to the high 40's, with rain. by then, i'll think it's summer. this cold is bone chilling and of course, they are calling for more snow. we haven't got much of it, but.....this year it is bothering me like mad! i shouldn't complain, there are parts of the country that are in the negatives, so i'll just keep my mouth shut on this subject any further! so whose left to post their pic? come out. come out whereever you are! speaking of which, jeanne, how are those triplets of late? is mary ellen still a part of this group? i feel like i haven't seen her in a long time...maybe since she became a grandmom, or right before that? hae a nice thursday! maryanne...See MoreHow to avoid mildew in Phlox -- my tip
Comments (9)Share -- I try to get ahead of actual mildew in a preventative way, but I have so many gardens and so many phlox that sometimes it does show up before I deal with it. I need to refill my special little sprayer pump more than once to do the entire job. If I have leftover mixture, I do put it into the fridge, after making sure I empty the nozzle so it doesn't clog. So when I have been lazy and the mildew has shown up, I just begin the spraying regardless, and unless the attack is truly terrible (which has happened!) to the point that the infestation is very heavy, even at that late time, the procedure kills much of it. I try to reapply the mixture every few days in high summer when conditions here (Zone 5b-6 Central MA) are humid. Glad you plan to try it! The One-handed Pressure Sprayer I mentioned in the OP from Amazon Is able to be set for constant spray mode without my having to squeeze the trigger handle. Makes it much kinder to my aging small hands!! I highly recommend it (I have four of them for various garden uses, lol)....See MoreEmbothrium
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