The blogs are very interesting, and often humorous. So I am doing a practical blog which does not involve hours in the kitchen, late nites being creative with a sewing machine, snowboarding, or (god forbid!) raising a baby in China. Although, I would very much like an ayi for myself. Would an ayi pick up after me? Clean my house? Fix my meals?
Okay... Are you "clueless" about:
1) Scale on your bay trees? Those little buggers live under the leaves (mostly) and secrete very sticky stuff all over your plant, carpet, windowsills, and windows. Now I only tried this before new growth appeared, so I'll update this after the new growth "hardens off" a bit.
Put rubbing alcohol into a spray bottle. Put your bay tree outside and mist it with the alcohol on and under all the leaves and stems. Then, dump buckets of slightly warm water over it and try to rinse off all surfaces of the leaves. Bingo! Scale mostly dies and your plant is healthy.
This works much faster than the suggested method, which is to dab each individual bug with a Q-tip dipped in alcohol. Optional: use a hose to rinse. Mine weren't turned on when I did this on the first warm day in February.
2) Tent caterpillars in your dwarf trees? Spray forcefully with rubbing alcohol and DO NOT RINSE! Repeat (3x did the trick for me). Totally got rid of those wormy things.
3) Too much artisan bread accumulating in your freezer, or going stale on the shelf? Onions sprouting green growth? Stay tuned for my next blog! Any questions you want addressed in my "clueless" blog? Use "comments"
6 comments:
Scale, eh? Our lemon tree came inside for its 3rd winter this year, and for the first time, the entire area around it - carpet, curtains, floor, window, were completely sticky.
Could that be scale? What does scale look like? We thought it was sap or something like that. Novices.
Scale looks like slightly raised or flat brown spots about 1/16th of an inch long on the bottom of the leaves. Can be smaller. They suck the life out of your plant. Sounds like you have scale.
Thanks for your blogging hints.
Jeanne
Love your blog!! I think it's a great idea. I know I can learn a lot from you. Your very first paragraph made me laugh out loud!!
I've discovered the spellcheck tab! Sorry about the first few drafts!
I'm curious about the solutions for leftover bread.
I'm curious why you have leftover bread. It's an issue we haven't run into.
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