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2024 Mid-Atlantic Garden, Lawn, and Other Green Stuff Thread


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On 5/4/2024 at 5:07 PM, CAPE said:

@nw baltimore wx

Here is one located on the deck skirting on the front of my house- it's a hot spot. All those bees captured since that initial hot spell in April.

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Looks great!  Going to build some for my yard too.  Did you angle the holes upward into into the mail channel, or were they drilled straight in? 

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8 hours ago, toolsheds said:

Looks great!  Going to build some for my yard too.  Did you angle the holes upward into into the mail channel, or were they drilled straight in? 

Drilled on an upward angle. The idea is once the bee gets in, it only sees light at the bottom and goes there thinking its the way out.

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1 hour ago, CAPE said:

Drilled on an upward angle. The idea is once the bee gets in, it only sees light at the bottom and goes there thinking its the way out.

thx!  makes sense and wanted to confirm that it indeed was the right way to build them.  Will let you know when I start catching some. 

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20 minutes ago, toolsheds said:

thx!  makes sense and wanted to confirm that it indeed was the right way to build them.  Will let you know when I start catching some. 

The holes they bore are 3/8 to 1/2 inch diameter. Most traps the holes are drilled to half inch. Good luck!

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Pretty much peak lawn here(such that it is). Even with the clover and various other non-grass products mixed in, it is thick and lush and green. One month until the solstice, and it will be starting to struggle by then, and then it's all downhill on the way to mostly thatch by the end of July. The rinse and repeat will start a few weeks later. If only the days started getting shorter after today lol.

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13 hours ago, CAPE said:

Pretty much peak lawn here(such that it is). Even with the clover and various other non-grass products mixed in, it is thick and lush and green. One month until the solstice, and it will be starting to struggle by then, and then it's all downhill on the way to mostly thatch by the end of July. The rinse and repeat will start a few weeks later. If only the days started getting shorter after today lol.

Do you have mushrooms in your lawn? I have hundreds. Crazy year.  Little sun and always showers.

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2 hours ago, frd said:

Do you have mushrooms in your lawn? I have hundreds. Crazy year.  Little sun and always showers.

A few have popped up here and there over the last week, but nothing unusual. I usually see a fair amount with all the trees and shade.

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On 5/21/2024 at 6:53 AM, frd said:

Do you have mushrooms in your lawn? I have hundreds. Crazy year.  Little sun and always showers.

On 5/21/2024 at 9:39 AM, CAPE said:

A few have popped up here and there over the last week, but nothing unusual. I usually see a fair amount with all the trees and shade.

Interesting question....and we have probably 10x the amount of mushrooms in both front/back yards, that we "normally" get during a given year. I'm assuming it's due to those several wet stretches over the past two months.

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5 hours ago, vastateofmind said:

Interesting question....and we have probably 10x the amount of mushrooms in both front/back yards, that we "normally" get during a given year. I'm assuming it's due to those several wet stretches over the past two months.

I believe so. Also interesting is that research shows it means your soil  is healthy. 

Today I see zero mushrooms.   

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The lantern flies are out of control in my yard and at first I was trying to kill them. But I’ve discovered that so far, they are only attacking the Tree of Heaven seedlings that I have been battling for the last couple of years, but to no avail. Nothing kills those dang weed trees, so I’m letting the lantern flies have a whack at it.

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3 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said:

The lantern flies are out of control in my yard and at first I was trying to kill them. But I’ve discovered that so far, they are only attacking the Tree of Heaven seedlings that I have been battling for the last couple of years, but to no avail. Nothing kills those dang weed trees, so I’m letting the lantern flies have a whack at it.

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I don’t see that many but am seeing them. And when you attempt to step on them, those fers know how to jump. 

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1 hour ago, RDM said:

Still 78 with a 75dp at 1am.   When I got home from work I watered some plants and young cherry trees.  The ground is so hard it took a while for the water to soak in.  Dragging 400' of 3/4" garden hose around the yard was not much fun in the early evening heat. 

Hose timers are your friend!

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4 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Hose timers are your friend!

Yup - thanks.  Have a couple timers - work well for grass.  Not so much for watering trees and bushes that need a big gulp to be effective.  Fortunately, we're on well water so the water bill is nill other than the expense of replacing the well pump periodically, which we did a few weeks ago.  Not cheap, but we're getting great flow out the end now.  One of those things I contemplated doing myself, but watching the pros do their thing was impressive.      

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On 6/27/2024 at 8:53 AM, nw baltimore wx said:

The lantern flies are out of control in my yard and at first I was trying to kill them. But I’ve discovered that so far, they are only attacking the Tree of Heaven seedlings that I have been battling for the last couple of years, but to no avail. Nothing kills those dang weed trees, so I’m letting the lantern flies have a whack at it.

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Watch for sooty black mold to develop though. We’ve been battling aphids for several years and the worst part is the sap/sooty mold that’s on everything under the trees/bushes. 

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23 hours ago, nj2va said:

Watch for sooty black mold to develop though. We’ve been battling aphids for several years and the worst part is the sap/sooty mold that’s on everything under the trees/bushes. 

We've had a tremendous uptick in sooty black mold on our holly bushes in front of the house, along with scale. I've treated them twice with horticultural oil in past month, and that's seemed to reduce, if not eliminate, the scale...but I need to kinda powerwash the holly leaves to get the remaining sooty mold off.  :( 

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As most gardeners know, the blight and fungal diseases are here and they are attacking hard. I've started the battle last night with my first application of Crop Defender 3. Crop Defender is a fungicide and pesticide combination. It's OMRI certified organic and it's bad ass. I've been using it on my cannabis grows during the winter in my greenhouse, and on my outdoor cannabis plants this season. I've recently applied it to my vegetable garden. So far the early blight on my tomato plants has been stopped in it's tracks. It's not cheap, but it works. Crop Defender 3

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