Every Sunday, Pat Sullivan from Sullivan
Hardware and Garden gives us great advice
for Doityourself home improvements.
Today he's got everything you
need to know about tackling those
reoccurring lawn and garden issues.
You know, it seems like every
growing season brings new problems,
things that we haven't seen so much
in the past, and this year seems
like it's a fits, a fits and scale.
Because we were getting lots and lots and
calls about people's cars and they had
getting this everyone called the SAP,
The SAP is coming down and
dripping onto our cars.
Well, what that actually is,
that is either scale or leaf sucking,
penetrating insects and that's actually
the secretions or as we like to say
in the industry that is aphid poop.
So that is coming down and
that sticky residue so.
You and it and it it can be anything.
This actually this is a hanging basket
that has aphids and I would say that you
can see them but it is they're so small.
They're these little white bumps
that you probably can't see there,
but they're aphid can be referred to
as plant lice that's how how small.
So you have to take care of them because
they will destroy the plants obviously
and there are different things you can use.
This is triple action plus convert alone.
And it will do a decent job but a lot
of times it's on big trees where Tulip
poplars are get scale and and aphids.
So how do you how do you take care of those?
Well the problem is there is soil drench
products like this that you actually
just dump around the base of the tree.
The downside of it is it generally would
take about 30 days for the uptake of the
tree to pull this insecticide up so.
If you got a problem and you've got
that where it's where it's dripping
down on top of your car might be best
just to move the car so and but it
will like I say and then that 30 days
eventually will get under control
but you can if you have some spray
equipment and there's other things
people go I want to use something a
little more environmentally friendly.
Neem oil will take care of aphids
as well so those are some of the
things but be looking for that sticky
stuff on leaves is a problem.
But it is not SAP, all right, So that's one.
The other has been bunnies,
bunnies, bunnies, bunnies.
And I really think it was from the
that early season drought that we
had that they were going normally
you see them in the spring and they
go after tender annuals and they,
they chop them right off,
you know impatient plans and things.
But it continued in well into June
and then into July I think because
looking for moisture so.
What do you do about bunnies?
The best thing is you deter them.
There is a lot of different things
that you can spray on the plants.
I like doing a perimeter treatment
around the plants.
This is a kind of an animal and you just
do like a little ring.
And what you would do is you do
that once a week for a month and
then once every two weeks and
then to about every once a month
because you're training the bunnies
to go somewhere else, basically.
And they work pretty good.
But if you get a hard rain,
a lot of rain, it washes it away
and then you do have to reapply it.
So keep that in mind.
The other one that I always hate
talking about is, is chipmunks.
That's always wait till the end.
Chipmunks do do damage
that they, you know,
they can get under slabs.
The slabs can collapse.
So if you do have an overabundance,
you probably do need to take
care of them and so many people,
you know because I blame Disney
because of Chip and Dale.
But you can live trap them.
But research shows that if you
move a chipmunk more than,
you know a mile or so
away from it's it's area,
that's probably going to die anyway.
So if you want to do something quick a
trap like this with a little peanut butter,
try to cover it over with a
little basket or something like
that to keep birds and different
domestic animals out of it.
I know nobody wants to talk about it,
but they are damaging,
so a few things to look at around your house.
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