Nice sunny morn here in Fort Lauderdale, sun's all lit up but it's not that humid yet. Was on tennis court by 8 off by 9ish (need to go to the gym).
Today in the garden, I made some tea. In an empty gallon milk jug:
1/8 bottle SuperThrive Miracle mix
1 qt of Fish and Poop (guano and fish emulsion)
3 oz of iron / soil acidifier
2 oz of copper fungicide
Fill up the rest of the container (using full stream to froth it up- activating enzymes, microbes?) with water.
I put about 3 or 4 oz of this mixed up mess in my 3 gal water cans and went at it all around. Hopefully there will not be deadly interactions in the soup that will harm anyone. It will however anoint someone walking on the sidewalk 4 flights down with some nasty smelling run off.
I'm wondering now if I shouldn't have made sure the soil in all the pots had some damp in them.... It's been raining for a week straight. No good to serve them straight shots when they need some water first.
Pandora vine is deserving of some trimming. I'm going to have to go after some of the legginess on croton and gardenia as well. It's grow time-- we are sliding in quickly toward the longest day of the year. Being in the tropic of Cancer, the sun will be at 12 o'clock on that day, we think.
(later that day..) trimmed 4 leggy branches of the variegated oak leaf croton, stuck the ends in Root Tone and crammed them into some nice moist Miracle Gro potting soil, expensive but full of organic material. Hid them away out of the sun's reach, as per some instructions online, no sun for a few weeks. I hope this dark, humid hideout isn't a den of whitefly that might make lunch of my hopeful cuttings.
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