Comments on: For Lily Lovers http://leslieland.com/blog/for-lily-lovers/ Cooking • Gardening • Home Style Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:19:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: PeggyM http://leslieland.com/blog/for-lily-lovers/#comment-19332 PeggyM Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:00:18 +0000 http://leslieland.com/blog/?p=196#comment-19332 P.S. Dry DE powder in a squirt bottle, not a solution or a paste of any kind. Have found i can shoot down japanese beetles right in the air with this. Only fun i have had this summer, i swear. They can still fly a little ways but soon settle and freeze in place. Peggy P.S. Dry DE powder in a squirt bottle, not a solution or a paste of any kind. Have found i can shoot down japanese beetles right in the air with this. Only fun i have had this summer, i swear. They can still fly a little ways but soon settle and freeze in place.
Peggy

]]> By: PeggyM http://leslieland.com/blog/for-lily-lovers/#comment-19331 PeggyM Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:54:37 +0000 http://leslieland.com/blog/?p=196#comment-19331 Sorry to be so long replying, forgot about having made that comment and just re-found it today. The dust does look dreadful, but better white dusted lily plants than no lily plants at all. To kill the larvae you have to score a direct hit on each one with the DE in a squirt bottle of some kind. Any larva that you powder real good will not be present the next day. I use a pint honey squirt bottle, having closed off half the hole in the lid with masking tape. The monsoon weather we have had washes the DE right off of course, while not inconveniencing adults or feeding larvae in the least, so every time it has stopped raining i have gone right out with the squirt bottle and reapplied DE to the leaves, and turned each one over to check for adult or larval miscreants hiding on the undersides and individually powdered each one found. I am in hopes that the amount of DE that has been washed down into the soil under the plants will kill the burrowing pupae, and/or kill the adults on the way up again. Soon as the snow melts in March i will powder the soil where the lilies will emerge. Grrrrr. Onward and upward. Peggy Sorry to be so long replying, forgot about having made that comment and just re-found it today. The dust does look dreadful, but better white dusted lily plants than no lily plants at all. To kill the larvae you have to score a direct hit on each one with the DE in a squirt bottle of some kind. Any larva that you powder real good will not be present the next day. I use a pint honey squirt bottle, having closed off half the hole in the lid with masking tape. The monsoon weather we have had washes the DE right off of course, while not inconveniencing adults or feeding larvae in the least, so every time it has stopped raining i have gone right out with the squirt bottle and reapplied DE to the leaves, and turned each one over to check for adult or larval miscreants hiding on the undersides and individually powdered each one found. I am in hopes that the amount of DE that has been washed down into the soil under the plants will kill the burrowing pupae, and/or kill the adults on the way up again. Soon as the snow melts in March i will powder the soil where the lilies will emerge. Grrrrr. Onward and upward.
Peggy

]]> By: leslie http://leslieland.com/blog/for-lily-lovers/#comment-18937 leslie Thu, 22 May 2008 12:59:49 +0000 http://leslieland.com/blog/?p=196#comment-18937 Hi Peggy, Thanks for the tip, but please tell us more! I can't figure out how it would work on the eggs and larvae under the leaves. Do you make a solution and use a spreader-sticker? And what do you do about how the stuff looks? While waiting to hear, I'm going to try spreading a blanket of de on the ground underneath and near the lilies, to see if that will nail them when they are on their way down to pupate - or on their way up to procreate. Maybe if the surface layer is sufficiently impregnated with de it would work whether rained in or not. Has anybody tried this??? Hi Peggy,

Thanks for the tip, but please tell us more! I can’t figure out how it would work on the eggs and larvae under the leaves. Do you make a solution and use a spreader-sticker? And what do you do about how the stuff looks?

While waiting to hear, I’m going to try spreading a blanket of de on the ground underneath and near the lilies, to see if that will nail them when they are on their way down to pupate - or on their way up to procreate. Maybe if the surface layer is sufficiently impregnated with de it would work whether rained in or not. Has anybody tried this???

]]> By: PeggyM http://leslieland.com/blog/for-lily-lovers/#comment-18923 PeggyM Sat, 17 May 2008 21:22:41 +0000 http://leslieland.com/blog/?p=196#comment-18923 Diatomaceous earth is the cure for these pests, and it works on japanese beetles too. Diatomaceous earth is the cure for these pests, and it works on japanese beetles too.

]]> By: Carol Leighton http://leslieland.com/blog/for-lily-lovers/#comment-18691 Carol Leighton Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:15:48 +0000 http://leslieland.com/blog/?p=196#comment-18691 They have finally found their way to northeastern Maine. I live in Surry, just outside Ellsworth. My son bought me two Stargazer lilies two years ago (at Sam's Club) and last year I battled them all summer long. I have quite a few others as well. Will try some suggestions found on this site this year and if they are not gone, or mostly gone, I'll get rid of the lilies. They have finally found their way to northeastern Maine. I live in Surry, just outside Ellsworth. My son bought me two Stargazer lilies two years ago (at Sam’s Club) and last year I battled them all summer long. I have quite a few others as well. Will try some suggestions found on this site this year and if they are not gone, or mostly gone, I’ll get rid of the lilies.

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