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Your houseplants and gardens - Yellow leaf means underwatered AND overwatered?! What a country!
I think it is some sort of dagger moth caterpillar (maybe the long wing dagger moth) or a salt marsh moth caterpillar. I cant find any that exact same color. If you visibly see eaten chunks you may want to get rid of them. Southern pink moths eat salvia but it doesn't look like one at all. There are caterpillar pesticides but I wouldn't poison it unless you know it is eating it. For caterpillars I use Bt-based pesticides when I have to, they will kill all caterpillars that eat the pesticide.
This year I am growing vining tomatoes. This is my first time, does anyone recommend anything other than tomato cages? I find them to easily tip over with the weight of the fruit. I've seen the 'florida weave' recommended, but I can't imagine it could hold in an indeterminate long.
As I was going away in May I didn't do much with the garden, wasn't well most of spring, so on Saturday I tried to make up for lost time and went to the garden centre. Wanted some stuff for my pots and to go around the Rowan tree we planted a few years back. I have a bush that seems to be dying and I don't know why. It started with one section that I removed in case it was some sort of illness. Its just all turning brown.I don't know if I should remove it now- if it is a disease it doesn't seem to be affecting the surrounding plants.
I bought soil improver for the front bed. Word of advice- if you spread something containing manure and then walk over it (e.g. to plant things), properly wash the soles of your shoes before taking them indoors. I was giving them a good brush on the mats while going from the front garden to the back, not enough, Couldn't see anything but could smell it.
The snapdragons from last year reseeded themselves and are fabulous, here's some pics to brighten the thread up, the yellow ones are amazing. Until Saturday they were the only things brightening up the garden. Beds are still looking pretty bare but I planted loads of cosmos so hopefully they'll do their usual thing of becoming massive and blooming profusely for a long time.
Does anyone have any tips for keeping indoor lavender plants alive? It was beautiful when my mom gave it to me, but it's slowly dying. I think I'm going to take it out of the pot, and separate the dying parts, and inspect the roots of living and see if it has root rot. It is in a north facing window with a grow light. I'm watering when the top inch of soil is dry.
I'm going to be very sad if I can't turn this around.
Does anyone have any tips for keeping indoor lavender plants alive? It was beautiful when my mom gave it to me, but it's slowly dying. I think I'm going to take it out of the pot, and separate the dying parts, and inspect the roots of living and see if it has root rot. It is in a north facing window with a grow light. I'm watering when the top inch of soil is dry.
I'm going to be very sad if I can't turn this around.
Google ”potted lavender care”. Google AI has a good summary of how to care for it. It’s a Mediterranean plant so it needs plenty of sun and very little water. Overwatering might be your issue, it needs to dry completely between waterings.
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I’ve been planting cucumbers and tomatoes from seeds this spring. I managed to get about 40 strong and healthy cucumber plants and the other day I poisoned almost all of them with some bad fertiliser. Ngl I’m kinda bummed out about it. I feel bad for wishing death upon them when I felt overwhelmed by how many I had accidentally grown. I still have 2 left who are not looking too good, but the ones I gave away to friends are still alive, so at least it wasn’t all for nothing. I planted them really early in the season though and I read now is really the best time to plant cucumber seeds, so I might give it another go. All my tomatoes and sweet pea flowers are still alive but I’m not too optimistic about them making it either, we’ll see. 3 days of mourning in my household starts today
Those small blacks dots look like they could be where thrips have laid eggs or fed from, the damage could also be from them or potentially if you ''helped'' your leaves get unfurled the leaf can get bruised initially then that kind of damage can appear as the leaf ages and grows.
Are you wanting a specific species? Or just a succulent in general? There are plenty of house plants which might fit your preference.
Also...
The potatoes I planted in those foldable sacks seem to be doing well and I am extremely pleased with how they are coming along. Staggered the plantings.
(This image was taken at least a week ago and the potato leaves have bushed out significantly in that time)
Those small blacks dots look like they could be where thrips have laid eggs or fed from, the damage could also be from them or potentially if you ''helped'' your leaves get unfurled the leaf can get bruised initially then that kind of damage can appear as the leaf ages and grows.
I had a massive, obnoxious thrips infestation in my indoors plants, so that sounds about right
I had to spend weeks soaking this poor plant in poison to kill them off. But that was months ago and I havent seen them since
Yet Pandora the Pothos (She who started my indoor plants collection for real and has been with me since summer 2023) just keeps looking so... sad.
I repotted her, moved her, gave her a fancy new climbing pole, tried fertilizers, tried NOT fertilizers... and she just keeps looking sad and it makes me sad too
I had a massive, obnoxious thrips infestation in my indoors plants, so that sounds about right
I had to spend weeks soaking this poor plant in poison to kill them off. But that was months ago and I havent seen them since
Yet Pandora the Pothos (She who started my indoor plants collection for real and has been with me since summer 2023) just keeps looking so... sad.
I repotted her, moved her, gave her a fancy new climbing pole, tried fertilizers, tried NOT fertilizers... and she just keeps looking sad and it makes me sad too
I really hate thrips so much, had a year+ long battle with them recently. It will depend a bit on your local species of thrips, but the only thing I found that actually worked in the end was buying predatory thrips.
I placed all my plants in a well lit room, used masking tape around the windows, then used adhesive rubber/foam weather stripping to seal around the door to keep both the predatory thrips and the normal ones locked in with each other. It was a bit annoying and I still have some masking tape to remove when I can be bothered, but it worked wonders.
Any advice on keeping a droopy fittonia (nerve plant) happy? I know I have to mix new soil so it doesn't drain as fast as my African Violets, and I've been trying to mist it regularly, but it's looking pretty sad. It's very humid in the summer where I am, but I have the A/C on more often than not.
I don't have a landline at my summer home and they're switching off mobile internets on the regular, because of hohol drones (allegedly), so I am stuck in the city for now.
We've already had the first wave of the yearly giant slug invasion. (One more reason to hate genderspecials.)
