Comments for Green Gardening with Ann Lovejoy

Comment on Planting Trees For Tomorrow by Meredith

Meredith — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:40:38 +0000

I want to see these park garden beds! Would the park be difficult to find if I took the ferry to Bainbridge and started driving? Does the park have a name?

Comment on Safe Ways To Deal With Garden Pests by Ann Lovejoy

Ann Lovejoy — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:20:35 +0000

I used to use an awesome dairy teat washing sprayer that sprayed upside down. Wonder where that went…? It made coating the undersides of leaves really easy.

Comment on No More Peat Moss In The Garden by Pat Patterson

Pat Patterson — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:35:59 +0000

Just want you to know how much I appreciate your knowledge. Thumbs up on the peat moss article.

Comment on Safe Ways To Deal With Garden Pests by marina mcshane

marina mcshane — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:05:14 +0000

Neem has a lot going for it, as do some of the other oil-based pest products which may be formulated of fish oil, sesame, soy or lecithin etc, but there are some real downsides too. For one, they really clog sprayers badly–you should mix the product in very hot water and then pour that into quite warm water in your sprayer, and then empty and rinse the sprayer with soapy water when you’re finished for the day. Also, they must contact the pests in order to smother them, which means very thorough spraying including the undersides of foliage, which is actually quite hard to achieve. By the time you have been this thorough, you have really coated the plants, and these oils leave a funny taste on the leaves. If it were a leaf I planned to eat soon, I wouldn’t want it to be sprayed with neem oil or fish oil like Organocide. As Ann hinted, these oils can and do damage young foliage esp. if high temperatures come into play. I do like them a lot for roses, though, because of the double whammy they give for blackspot too.