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I will look into pruning the neighbors’ house.

I’d love to have some plums, but I don’t have a lot of room for them.

Trees have been saved by people camping in them.

Sort of, but it’s just getting started. I’ve got a cherry tree with three varieties, two tiny apple trees, a bunch of blueberry and huckleberry bushes (sadly, the huckleberries have not yet been productive), a couple of salmonberry shrubs, and a few thimbleberry shrubs.

I’m in western Washington, zone 9a.

I haven’t needed to worry about size yet but will definitely have to prune the salmonberry and thimbleberry regularly before long. So far, I’ve just used mulch, but I’ll be adding compost at some point.

Edit: I forgot about my yuzu.

This is the local place where I get my bee supplies from. I would highly recommend them.

I’ve started planting veggies and herbs in my raised garden beds. Soon, more wildflowers for the bees. I’ll be getting my yearly mason bees in a few days.

I still use my PS3 for this. And that thing is built like a tank. It once had a heavy CRT TV fall on it during an earthquake. It got a small scratch.

Everyone should be avoiding palm oil. It’s in so many more products than you may realize.

I’m not sure a product which you can and will run out of really fits this community.

Not much of an article.

Best of luck.

Guess my timing is off.

A single spider will not be enough to take care of mealy bugs. Sorry, but you really need to use alcohol to kill off an infestation.

I believe you that Swanson’s has them because they’re huge, but I go there pretty often and have never actually seen them.

Sounds like mealy bugs. Good luck. It is possible to get rid of them. I spent, like, 2 hours carefully applying mild rubbing alcohol to every single leaf surface on my wasabi plant and it did recover! I had thought it was done for, the infestation was so bad.

Hmmm. Do you have a photo? How large is an individual insect? Mealy bugs can be so tiny that it’s hard to even see them moving.

I also live in Seattle. We must frequent different shops.

My experience is that most garden centers do not sell these, but occasionally they do. More reliable to find online.

Lowe’s sells them, but only at an appropriate time of year, which this is not. You can also get them on Amazon and from a few smaller company websites.

Unfortunately, you need to decide whether you want the plant to try to survive mealy bugs or try to survive alcohol on the leaves.

I don’t think spraying a cloth with a bit of alcohol+water (I have had success without the soap) is too great a threat, but that’s your call.