Propagation: Plant Propagation ,The Basics Continued Oct -Nov , 4 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
I am just happy to see our toads and garter snakes when I see them. I miss the lizards , mud doggies, horned toads and bullfrogs I grew up with.

Jen, I use a combo spray of tea tree, windex, dish soap and flea dip for dogs, ( 99.9 percent pyrethins) I do have a really strong miticide I use when needed, but I haven't had problems with spidermites since I started using that stuff in Spring. I also use yellow sticky traps and fly tapes hidden here and there. we spray all things with raid home and Garden in the garage before they come in. My mom in law up in Buffalo taught me to spray bottom sides and soil and plants with that .. her stuff goes up 15 steps to the bedrooms she doesn't use, she uses the same plastic to cove the floors and beds and furniture with, has her sons drag out the old brass plant poles, and has dishes and pie tins sitting under everything. When I am up there in September, she has me cut everything back, and she throws the cuttings away, but this year, I sent the cuttings to myself from there, since she is 86, I wanted pieces of her plant collection that some things are over 60 years old. The arrived fine, I had them in peat and a tad of water, and made a "bubble of plastic bag. boxed them up to send. Anyway, by the time I undid that bag, everything was rooted LOL She even saves her great big flowering tuber begonias in their baskets, and just leaves them dry over winter inside.Every year, she THROWS away, the fuchias, and impatians. Me, I'd save them too, since they would be the same as her Begonias.

her flowers she saves: ( not the inpatians) she has a HUGE tree ( grapefruit) her late husband grew from a grapefruit seed. and her tropicals are monsters. last two pics are what I would have saved for her, had I been there last week..