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John Jay's Tips for Summer Watering and Maintenance
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- Carol, how to get sprouts off her Olive Tree
Recommendation: get them while their young, snap them off; Sucker Stopper from Monterey
Palm Trees with Jay and Rosie
- Rosie talks to Integrity Tree Service for help
- Trim Palms in June and July
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- Gary, what to do about ants
Recommendation: Amdro, Come and Get it
- Coco, eggplants will not bear fruit
Recommendation: may take a couple sets of blooms to get fruit, they are not pollinating, Tomato and Pepper Set (Blossom Set
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- Steve, does he use a bubbler off his main line to water his annuals
Recommendation: 1/4 inch line to spray nozzle on a stake; lines of soaker tubing (perforated 1/4 inch tubing); stake with a u-shape; run early in the morning
- Susie, has a stressed Fig Tree
Recommendation: make sure it is watered enough, as the heat
increases, water longer, deeper, slower and more often; shredded bark
mulch
- Mark, has a Caskalote Tree that is dropping crystallized materials
Recommendation: Take a sample to your local nursery to get insecticide
- Steve, his grape vine are not doing well
Recommendation: Treated his caterpillars and now leaves are transparent; Jay says the caterpillars are still there.