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[ronott1]

I love my Iris beds. Just HATE weeding them, especially since they are thick and the grass is so hard to work out of them.

Pull the weeds and put down black weed barrier. Cover with much or bark

 

[perchie.girl]

Thanks. Any idea what can be used?

there are herbicides that kill only grass... Round up used properly will kill trees...

READ Lables carefully... But they will be feed through and in granular form. Last time I sold product like herbacies I was twenty one... about fourty two years ago.... I know products change... I am thinking it was a Scotts product or .... we used to sell it to weed grass out of Iceplant.

read lables on line and choose products whos manufacturers you know and trust.

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

Round up Tough brush & poison Ivy killer used to work wonders for me- although it took alot longer than the label said. I sprayed some buckthorn bushes and young trees one year. Looked like nothing happened. Next spring I saw they were all brown. I grabbed a branch and the entire plant broke off at ground level - had NO roots on it. Yippee!!!

It hasn't been available here for about 2 years now - which is funny because'off brands' have the same ingredient in bigger amounts. Other brands have not produced good results for me. Even though I know Scott's has taken over a few major brands.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I will be exploring many as our bulbs got planted this year granular would probably be good here.. fireworks already going off here not good many dogs and cats afraid ours are in and safe

 

[Beer can]

I've never tried it but I heard corn meal will prevent weeds. Always planned on using it around my onions, it's what the place I get my plants (Dixondale Farms) recommends.

 

[Beer can]

Get to look forward to 95+ degrees this weekend woohooo!
Guess it's better than being knee deep in snow.
Wonder if I should put the air conditioner in ...

 

[CapricornFarm]

Get to look forward to 95+ degrees this weekend woohooo!
Guess it's better than being knee deep in snow.
Wonder if I should put the air conditioner in ...
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Just do it! You will be glad you did.

 

[chrisb01]

I ordered a Musa goldfinger banana tree, 2 pineapple guava trees and a maypop pasdion fruit vine. I can hardly wait to get to taste them all.

Question: I have a guava tree.. How can I keep the fruit from getting worms?

 

[Beer can]

Question: I have a guava tree.. How can I keep the fruit from getting worms?

Not sure if it will work 100% but I use this on my fruit trees, fyi, good idea to use gloves and use something to apply it, super sticky and don't wash off.....
Wrap a little ways up the tree, don't take much if it's saplings in my case, apply the tanglefoot, it's like super duper fly sticky tape and lasts a LONG time. IDK? if it will help in your case but does here, my trees are in the open so nothing drops down on them.

Edit, lol, I see the pic I posted for the kit says it has a 'handy applicator' , I didn't buy the kit, just the tanglefoot tub and a roll of regular tree wrap. Stupid fool that sold me it said it would work for grafting apple trees... I was looking for grafting wax something my dad used many yrs ago. Knew it wasn't what I wanted but bought it anyway. Came in handy when I realized what it was.
I just grafted my branches following a vid on YouTube that cut v-notches and wrapped tight with strips of plastic, worked.

 

[chickadoodles]

Question: I have a guava tree.. How can I keep the fruit from getting worms?

Some people use nylons or wax paper sandwich bags. I got some wax sandwich bags off Amazon. I stapled them over my grapes. The squirrels pulled them off. Lol may e nylons would work better.