Texas Gardening: knolan thread, 1 by knolan

knolan wrote:
I'm sure you are right and it is leaf miner because it leaves the squiggly lines like a slug but the the leaf curls and dies. I had a feeling I was using the wrong terminology when I said scale. Nope, you can't flick this stuff off....it's definitely inside the leaf. Anyway, I lost so much of the new growth....it just killed me to have to cut it all off but it's my own fault. I waited way too long to take care of the problem. But, I didn't lose any lemons. CJ, you wouldn't believe how many I have. It's in a very neglected area of the yard so I'm a little embarrassed but here it is......

Wasn't my buddy sweet? She's one of only two that would help me with the school garden. and she's not even interested in gardening! But when she drove by to see how it was going and saw me, my husband and one other person there, she went home and dug up a lot of her plants and brought them by. I need to take a picture of it to show you. It's finally getting itself established.

Here's my poor lemon tree....this was after the pruning.