🌿An abandoned greenhouse, reclaimed by nature. Somewhere in Italy.

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An overgrown, abandoned greenhouse, its glass panels broken and covered in vines and green foliage. Nature reclaims the structure.

This week in Master Gardener I worked in the Plant Clinic, which was FASCINATING! I got to work with a more experienced master gardener mentor to help solve plant problems from people in the community, and provide science-backed advice.

So, here are some of the problems people brought to us in the Plant Clinic today: 🧵
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1/ Jeff brought in samples from his Gala and Honeycrisp apples. The samples from the gala were completely dead with a burnt look, which is a pretty clear sign of fireblight. He said he had fireblight on the same tree last year, had pruned tit out and sprayed it with copper fungicide, but it had come back.

Fireblight is a big problem here and gala is prone to it, so we told him he should keep at it (pruning the dead parts out) but the tree might need to come out. 😞
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2/ The honeycrisp samples just had a few dry leaves and did not look like fireblight to me; more like the tree was just stressed. He had fertilized it earlier in the spring with 13-13-13, and a lot of it, and we raised eyebrows at that but that was probably not the core problem. Could have been frost or drought. No diagnosis. We told him to keep an eye on it.

(The Master Gardeners encourage organic methods but we do not judge if people go conventional.)
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3/ Marion brought in a trap with two enormous dead yellowjackets in it. She was surprised how big they were. I had also been trapping huge yellowjackets at home so this was a question I wanted to know the answer to!

We did some research into yellowjacket varieties and these were plain old western yellowjackets. My theory is that these are queens, and it's good to nab the queens early so they don't make nests (and many more ywllowjackets). She hoped that was the case.
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4/ Marisa sent us an email with photos of her apples and peaches and asked about the problems the was having. The apple photos all looked like more fireblight. 😞

The peach leaf photos had raised orange blisters on them, which is a sure sign of peach leaf curl, a fungal disease. If it's just one or two leaves you can just cut them off. The tree will need to be sprayed with a fungicide (sulfur is organic) in the winter and spring but now spraying won't help.
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5/ Ellen brought in some samples from a rhododendron that were covered in what looked like black soot. We looked closer and found mealybugs, which secrete a sticky waste called honeydew. Given that rhodies are often grown in shade the black soot is a mold from the honeydew.

Fortunately this is an easy fix, remove the mealybugs and the mold will go away. You can just wash off the mealybugs with water from a hose or use insecticidal soap (organic, safe).
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6/ IN SUMMARY: Plant Clinic was super interesting, and other than the need to talk to people on the phone (UGH, the worst) I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. I have two more sessions this summer for my Master Gardener class and I hope they will be equally as interesting.
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“Laura Alice Bracken, a #Geelong-based artist, started building her own cyberdeck as an extension of her creative practice, in which she was experimenting with #MIDI controllers that take #biofrequencies from #plants and transform them into #soundwaves.

But Bracken, 39, wanted something she could take out into #nature and, after falling down a rabbit hole online, her mind started to widen to the world of #cyberdecks.

The device she is making – housed inside a vintage abalone shell – will also double as an e-reader.

“I just found out my #Kindle is about to be made redundant,” she says (Amazon recently announced they would no longer support #eReaders made before 2012).”

“It is a perfectly good Kindle ... so why is it suddenly going to be trash? It’s because they want to sell new ones.”

#PersonalComputing / #computers / #hardware / #DIY <https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-young-women-building-their-own-computers-as-a-middle-finger-to-big-tech-20260424-p5zqvv.html> / <https://archive.md/t0DR4>

This is a very manecured place. It's part golf course to keep the Tesla and Corvette drivers busy and off of the highways during the day, but if you walk out far enough, you can still find some rustic rather untouched wilderness, my kinda stuff.

I did end up walking out of the woods and finding Mallard lake right in front of me and beyond it, part of the golf course itself, but it was a pleasant surprise to walk out of the woods after half a mile of walking and "BEHOLD... LAKE".

Oh yeah and happy first post on the new instance. Holla back y'all, my ego needs it.

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Some of the gardens around the Arboretum. Most of the flowers have come and gone... gotta be faster about these things, still mighty green tho.

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Another garden area, like this one a lot.

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Playing with reflections never gets old, Mallard Lake and the golf course beyond it.

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A spiderweb illuminated by a ray of sunlight