Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Gardens and Plants 108, 1 by dyzzypyxxy

dyzzypyxxy wrote:
We have lots of golf courses here, too. The blanket fert restriction is mainly on residential properties, but I do believe that the golf courses are limited to using slow-release pelleted fert in the summer rather than the highly soluble stuff they use in the spring and fall.

Pesticide and fungicide are still allowed but strictly regulated for everybody - summer's the big season for bugs and fungi, right?

Wish I could say it was this way in all of Florida, this is only a Sarasota County ordinance. But I think many other counties have something similar in play especially along the Gulf Coast.

Went to the nursery for mulch, and scored a deal on five more 'Easy Does It' roses for half price. I'm planting a prickly border along the side of the pool cage so the critters don't tear the screening going for the water. Figure if I interplant with my Skeleton Rose geranium it will repel the bugs, and maybe keep the roses from being devoured by the Sri Lanka weevils. My Sunny Knock Outs are all shredded and looking very sad.