Earth Day! April 22, 2018
We planted the Asian pear (Shinko+BET) I successfully grafted in the new berm which doesn’t have a name yet. The foliage is dirty but not diseased, btw. The ugly yellow stuff at the bottom was how I kept track that it was one that I had done. V is a grafting machine so he did tons more while I carefully – and with great terror – struggled with the sharp box cutter.
It is next to the Mystery Apple tree.
We also planted the organic blue potatoes I got from work, and we made a large container and filled it with some cheap bulbs I picked up from Aldi’s – a Dahlia ‘’Vancouver’ and a big mix of glads. The whole thing is topped off with some mystery brassicas from work, but they might be ‘Green Giant’ hybrid Broccolis, or at least I fervently hope so.
My begonia has succumbed to that fungal disease that they get. V told me this happened to the last one I brought home, which I absolutely do not remember, but I’m not surprised b/c it’s a plant I freaking love (Rex ‘Escargot’). Anyway I’ve been battling it on some plants at work, and the one I bought and brought home was from that same batch. Notably, this is the first time at work I’ve battled with it, so I just so happened to buy from the bad batch, before it was obvious that there was a problem. Ugh!
The neem oil does nothing, but I’m not about to pull out the serious fungal sprays for it.