Can you supply a link to what traps you use? Also do you trap codling moth later on in the season.
I’ve only used bt and spinosad for the moths, I get some damage but its been under control.
thanks
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Bought three new tomato plants. A variety I have never heard of. It is an heirloom and supposedly the French équivalant to our ‘beefsteak’. We shall see. The name is « Marmande’.
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We grow Madam Marmande here and it does well. We have a lot of problems growing heirlooms because of our disease and insect pressure. Madam Marmande is supposed have more resistance and we grew in pots last year and got some really nice tomatoes. Better than beefsteak in my opinion. I wonder if it is the same as yours?
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I don’t trap for codling moth but I do spray and then use Clemson bags. Fortunately, I don’t have much pest pressure on my apple. YET.
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I asked the nursery man what he thought and he said, « Tres bon gout! ». Very good taste. I’m growing mine in pots as well. I would love to find a new ‘earth bags’ here but cannot. Thanks for the review. I love the tomatoes here, but I just have to grow my own! For some reason they just taste the best. Good to know they grow well, thanks so much! Mrs. G
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Just took all the potted Tam Kam Kakis, potted Pakistan mulberries, potted figs out of the tornado shelter. Also planted some Thai and Holy basil seeds, Korean giant green onions in those earth boxes. This weekend will bark graft some pears.
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Tony how is your back feel:thinking:
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Have you heard of the product called Biofreeze. I got 4 bottles and rubbed on two bottles already. Lol.
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Isn’t that stuff smell like Bangay that Walgreens sale?
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That’s It 
Happening today? Petal fall on red fleshed apples, and Spitzenburg and Cornish Aromatic opened into full bloom yesterday. I think that is my final blossom buds to open up on apples.
If Wolf River were going to bloom, there would at least be clusters of buds, so it isn’t. Typically it and Rome are bringing up the rear in most apple orchards.
And…my order from Cummins nursery shipped two weeks ago is still not here!
A small order placed in Feb.
I reported it and will see what they do.
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Unknown Inherited Peach and Reliance buds starting to open. Clipped unopened flower buds off a bit too precocious Goldrush. Save those hormones for a couple of years from now, dude. Happily most of the apple buds that I notched on the various trees seem to be responding at least a little. Buds on potted the Legacy Blueberry also opening; the others are still waiting to open but still pushing some leaf buds. My daughter and I planted a bunch of potatoes but for now they just look like bags of dirt. All if the grafted rootstocks are standing like soldiers in formation in the raised bed. Only the three bench grafts from 39th P. are yet showing signs of life; mine are still a stick forest. Newly planted strawberry bed is looking perky, just starting to leaf a bit. Elderberries are sending up shoots and leafing on the bottoms of the old ones. We are waiting for orders from BurntR and Mehyerban. Cummins arrived last week. Oh yes, lovely inherited daffies are in full bloom. 
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Dropping some brush off at the landfill, and my wife wouldn’t let me bring home a perfectly good, freshly dug up rhododendron that someone left there because it was “too big for the car.” Should have brought my pruners!
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I sprayed copper and oil today, 18 gallons through a backpack sprayer, whew! I was surprised to see buds swelling, way too early for this! I always forget how long it takes, thought I was going to work on setting more posts, but nope. Back at it tomorrow.
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same here. spraying 3 weeks early. rushing to get the strawberry beds thinned out before they start growing.
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Jay I’m about to have 2 very large ones down near Pittsburgh if you want to take a trip! 
Have to make room for some food bushes and I can’t eat rhododendron, even though they are pretty…
This evening I planted a few of the wild elderberry cuttings I sourced from work.
I also saw that one of the Virginia Bluebells I rescued from an invasive Japanese Knotweed spray zone have survived and popped up!!! I thought it was a goner when it wilted away last year after I transplanted it.
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I went looking Friday for tomato plants…the little nursery was closed (death of wife/illness of husband). I’ll have to go to a retail …or just plant some seeds and not have early tomatoes.
Planted my Garriguettes today in the strawberry pot then on top planted two varieties of nasturtium. Should be pretty. Discovered black aphids on my apple trees and cannot spray a thing as they are in full bloom and beautiful! My peach and mirabelle have set fruit as has one larger black currant. Its starting. I am going to buy insect cages for the fruit trees. It is a fine white netting that will do double duty by not letting the birds in either. They are 13 Euros for two bags. I ordered a bunch! That way there will be not individual bagging. Its overcast and more rain is due tonight. Its a very quiet Sunday as confinement and lockdown are once again in place. Its in the high fifties and as long as there is no wind it is nice out, rain and all. Perfect day to garden.
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Sprayed my plums with Surround this AM. First time using it. Hopefully I will get a harvest this year.
Wives don’t have the same adventurous spirit that husbands have …
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