Pesticide Guide

Check out the Newsletter for a Steve-suggested download about pesticides. It's from Franklin county and Steve says "This guide provides the recommended insecticide active ingredient(s) for the most common insects and mites AND some brand name products that contain them.

There are four sections in this guide; general landscape pests, specific pests of trees and shrubs, annuals and perennials, and insecticide tables that list active ingredients and brand name products. The "General Use Pesticides for Home Lawns" is also available and is a similar format."

The address is http://franklin.osu.edu/hort/

You can check the newsletter for more info about the download.

Frosty Daffodils

Because of our lovely weather I had to cut the daffodils that were blooming and bring them in. Bouquets are nice but the yard will be bare. Time will tell if it is true that those in bud stage will survive. I recently read that emerging peonies could also be in trouble from the snow and cold. Had I known sooner I could have tried covering them. When (?) it warms up I will do damage assessments. What are your frozen flowers?

Does anyone know where to buy the di-syston (spelling?) that is the systemic for applying to houseplants? I have nearly eradicated the scale on my house plants but fear if I quit spraying they will return. Does anyone know if di-syton is the chemical or trade name?

Veggies this week and probably more food samples from Erik Draper:)

Our online classmate.

If you go to the first post welcoming Cara, our online classmate, you will see her response about her garden. Check it out and get to know her. Then post more info about your garden so she can get to know you/us.

Sideling Hill

"The Sideling Hill road cut is a 340-foot deep road cut where Interstate 68 cuts through Sideling Hill, about 6 miles west of Hancock in Washington County, Maryland. It is notable as an impressive man-made mountain pass, visible from miles away and one of the best rock exposures in Maryland and indeed in the entire northeastern[1] United States. Almost 810 feet of strata in a tightly folded syncline are exposed in this road cut. Although other exposures may surpass Sideling Hill in either thickness of exposed strata or in quality of geologic structure, few can equal its combination of both. There is an Exhibit Center to help provide the public with a better understanding of the geology of the cut. A pedestrian walkway bridge crosses I-68 for better access to the cut, along with a picnic area and rest area facilities." from Maryland DNR The website is

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/sidelinghill.html

Soil levels

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photography

Finally I can see grass, green and brown grass, and my mind wonders about the brown spots. Is it a disease, fungi, insects, thatch, any of those new conditions we just learned or are the weeds just dormant? We have learned so much and I wonder if I can remember and apply all that information when the grass starts to grow.

I want to share this website: photobucket.com. It is a site where you register for free and then have access to photography information. I understand that it will allow you to post pictures on the blog and gives helpful information related to photography.