Problems in the Garden this Week

This week, Buggy Joe Boggs (OSU Extension) is reporting garden spiders galore webbing the lawns, hedges, shrubs, doors, windows, gardens, etc (a sign of the winter to come?), leafminers in Linden leaves, numbers of fall webworm continue to soar to new levels, walnut caterpillars entering a second generation, hosta virus X diagnosed recently, lawns really struggling due to summer spoilers (heat, humidity, too wet, too dry, foot traffic while stressed, too low mowing, etc) and cases of leaf spot, melting out, brown patch, pythium blight, summer patch and necrotic ring patch, dollar spot, and rust have been diagnosed all season, and a reminder that as the season winds down, sanitation practices help get gardens off to a better start next year (so pitch infected plants, leaves, fruits etc before the end of the year).

-Catch The Buggy Joe Boggs Report every Saturday at 8:42am on 55KRC The Talk Station.

Protect your Ash Trees from the Emerald Ash Borer!  Fall is an excellent time to treat ash trees for EAB protection.  Let our professionals at Natorp’s do it for you!  Call 513-398-GROW or visit www.natorp.com for more EAB protection information!

Problems in the Garden this Week

This week Buggy Joe Boggs (OSU Extension) is reporting continued sightings and face buzzing from the gigantic cicada killer wasps, large moth caterpillars showing up everywhere (Hickory Horned Devil is Joe’s favorite), summer spider mites on the increase, magnolia scale crawlers crawling, bagworms continuing to feed on evergreens and a few deciduous plants as well, fall webworm and mimosa webworm nests appearing here there and everywhere, striped caterpillars feeding heavily right now, antlions (one of Joe’s favorite bugs) are now digging their cone shaped pits for capturing ants, iris borers detected on, yes, iris, sunflower head-clipping weevil still clipping away, redheaded pine sawflies (2^nd generation) showing up on pines (these dudes and dudettes eat this years needles!), warm season spider mites very active, and downey mildew showing up on pumpkin vines and squash vines.

-Catch The Buggy Joe Boggs Report every Saturday at 8:42am on 55KRC The Talk Station.

Problems in the Garden this Week

This week Buggy Joe Boggs is reporting birds pecking apples, weeds taking over gardens, Japanese Tree lilac / Yellowwood and maple infected with wilt, fireblight on crabapple, necrotic ring spot on bluegrass, fall webworms showing up big time (blackheaded and redheaded), pecan spittlebug on both pecan and English walnut, baldcypress rust mites on, yes, bald cypress, oak leafminer, black pineleaf scale, downey mildew on melons [PUMKPIN GROWERS WATCH FOR THIS ON PUMKIN LEAVES!], powdery mildew on just about anything (yes it gets on pumpkins too), rust on turfgrass, and nutgrass and crabgrass having a hey-day in all lawns!!!

-Catch the Buggy Joe Boggs Report every Saturday at 8:42am on 55KRC The Talk Station.

Problems in the Garden

This week, Buggy Joe Boggs (OSU Extension) is reporting tulip trees dropping yellow leaves (very common in hot weather), bacterial wilt and squash vine borer causing wilt of zucchini vines, heavy fruit loaded limbs requiring support from underneath (do it before the branches become damaged or snap), oak galls on oak leaves, scab on crabapples, leaf spot on dogwoods, powdery mildew on sycamore and anthracnose on maple, vole damages of fruits and veggies low enough for voles to reach, vert. wilt on watermelon, bacterial spot on pepper plants, dog day cicadas everywhere (which means watch for cicada killer wasps showing up), baldfaced hornet nests becoming more apparent as they increase in size, fall webworm, webworm moths flittering in the lawn, downy mildew on muskmelons, powdery mildew on just about anything, and lawn stresses galore from heat to drought to diseases to dormancy to weeds to foot traffic to who knows what!

-Catch the Buggy Joe Boggs Report Saturdays at 8:42am on 55KRC The Talk Station.

Problems in the Garden this Week

This week Buggy Joe Boggs (OSU Extension) is reporting white spots on tomato leaves (Roundup damages), many calls about poorly developed fruits on brambles and strawberries (many factors causing this including lack of bee activity, drought, low soil fertility, virus and disease, and insect damages), oak galls, Stigmina needlecast on blue spruce, powdery mildew on London planetree, leaf scorch in maples, black rot on grapes, vole damages on brambles, European corn borer in Rudbeckia stems, reports of the Bloodsucking Conenose in SW Ohio, heliopsis bugs feeding on heliopsis, wooly alder aphids on alders, twig gall on bald cypress, horseflies galore, tar spot on maple leaves, brown rot of peach on peaches, and sightings of hummingbird moths (hummingbird look a likes) now appearing in many gardens.

Catch The Buggy Joe Boggs Report every Saturday 8:42am on 55KRC.

Let Natorp’s save your ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer!  Visit www.natorp.com for more information.

Problems in the Garden this Week

This week Buggy Joe Boggs (OSU) is reporting harmful algal blooms (HAB – an over abundance or excessive growth of algae) causing bad taste and odor problems in potable water, polluting beaches with scum, reducing oxygen levels for fish and other animals, causing processing problems for public water supplies and may even generate toxic chemicals (sounds like something BJB would make up, but this time it is for real), spined soldier bugs feeding on beetles (therefore it’s a good bug), spider webs galore showing up this past week on the morning of the heavy fog, Rhizosphaera needlecast disease causing inner needle drop on Norway spruce, fireblight on crabapple, anthracnose on oaks, cankers and dieback problems on Japanese maples, Phomopsis on holly, nutritional deficiencies showing on many plants, black rot on grapes, root rot on raspberries, deformed strawberries due to poor pollination, the sunflower head clipping weevil now showing up in Ohio for the first time, blister beetles feeding away, net-winged beetles out and about, dogbane leaf beetles out and about, cicada killers now appearing to scare you and destroy a few dog day cicadas, mimosa webworms in honeylocust, locust leafminer browning black locust leaves, bagworms simply destroying evergreens, leaf blotch now showing on buckeyes and horsechestnut leaves, white mold fungus showing up on tomato stems (can get on 170 species of plants), tomato leaf mold, and last but not least, green June beetles out and about.

-Catch The Buggy Joe Boggs Report Saturdays at 8:42am on 55KRC The Talk Station.

LET NATORP’S SAVE YOUR ASH!  See how our professionals can protect your ash trees from the devastating Emerald Ask Borer.  Call (513) 398-GROW, or visit www.natorp.com.

[You know it’s hot when the birds use potholders to pull the worms out of the ground.]

Problems in the Garden this Week

This week Buggy Joe Boggs (OSU Extension) is reporting blossom end rot on tomatoes and squash, loads of vascular diseases now showing such as Dutch elm disease, Verticillium wilt, and oak wilt, Ailanthus webworm (Tree of Heaven), squash vine borers, leaf diseases galore on tomato plants including early blight, late blight, Septoria leaf spot, and bacterial spot, root and stem rot on petunias, lawns going dormant, and adult Viburnum leaf beetles beginning to emerge in NE Ohio.

-Catch The Buggy Joe Boggs Report every Saturday, 8:42am, on 55KRC.

NATORP’S CAN SAVE YOUR ASH!  CALL US TODAY AND WE’LL TELL YOU HOW!  (Visit www.natorp.com or call (513) 398-4760.)

Problems in the Garden this Week

This week Buggy Joe Boggs (OSU Extension) is reporting groundhogs beginning to devour gardens, squirrels removing bark and buds from tree branches and trunks (Who knows exactly why squirrels do this?  I mean, you can’t just sit down and quiz them about their past, possible teen squirrel abuse, maybe bullied during their elementary squirrel school days, etc, and you certainly can’t get them to take a drug test!), grapes now showing Black rot, tomatoes with leaf spot, white oaks with anthracnose and Tubakia leaf spot (I think Joe made that one up), oak wilt showing up here and there, mites distorting coneflower flowers, lacebug galore sucking the nutrients right out of plant leaves, mimosa webworms now appearing on, come on you can guess it, honeylocust (got ‘cha!), yellownecked caterpillars feeding on a number of different plant leaves, deer flies galore looking for a blood meal from livestock, dogs, deer or people (females need the blood meal to produce eggs for the next generation), EAB now detected in Perry County, Ohio, and last but not least, if you are using a rain barrel to collect water and reuse in your yard, good for you, but do use it on a regular basis to try and keep mosquito populations from growing in the barrels (use mosquito screens on rain barrels where possible).

-Catch The Buggy Joe Boggs Report Saturdays at 8:42am on 55KRC The Talk Station.

Problems in the Garden

This week Buggy Joe Boggs (OSU Extension) is reporting poison ivy popping up just about anywhere and everywhere, yellowing blueberry leaves due to higher soil pH than the plants would like, cucurbits blossoming but not producing fruit (generally due to lack of both male and female present on vines – be patient as both eventually begin to show up – as well as lack of pollination due to lack of garden pollinators) (By the way, this week is National Pollinator Week!), Sweetgum with anthracnose, cherry with brown rot, contorted filbert with eastern filbert blight, scarlet oak sawfly on, yes, scarlet oak, fleecy white planthoppers on stems of perennials and low growing woody ornamentals, red milkweed beetles feeding on, oh yeah, milkweed, first generation of fall webworm seen in SW Ohio, golden tortoise beetles feeding on ornamental sweet potato vines, black spot on roses, rose slugs on roses, leaf spot on delphinium, calico scale crawlers on the move, magnolia serpentine leafminer on, yes, you can get it, magnolias, brown patch – dollar spot – red thread – leaf spot running rampant in lawns, and last but very important, Downey Mildew on cucumbers in NE Ohio (very serious) and Late Blight on tomatoes now confirmed in Harrison Co, OH.

-Catch The Buggy Joe Boggs Report every Saturday at 8:42am on 55KRC The Talk Station.

SAVE YOUR ASH TREES FROM EMERALD ASH BORER DEVISTATION!  Visit our website (www.natorp.com) or call (513) 398-4769 to learn more about the EAB and how Natorp’s Landscape can help protect your ash trees.

Problems in the Garden this Week

This week Buggy Joe Boggs is reporting that the final week of June is National Pollinator Month to help bring attention to the declining pollinator populations, and to celebrate the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles, eriophyid mite patches are showing up on beech, birch, linden, and maple leaves, blister mite (pear leaf) and leaf curl gall midge on ornamental pears, locust leafminer beetle and black locust bug damaging, yes, locust leaves, apple scab and frogeye leafspot now appearing on apple and crabapple leaves (and eventually will cause leaf drop), red thread, brown patch dollar spot and leaf spot running wild in many lawns, as well as fairy rings and mushrooms galore, roughstalk bluegrass getting ready to go summer dormant in many lawns, and also a reminder that many gardens may need a light extra feeding with all the rains we’ve been having.  An all purpose fertilizer as a side dressing (6-8 inches away from the plants) works just fine.

-Catch The Buggy Joe Boggs Report every Saturday at 8:42am on 55KRC The Talk Station.