I would suspect that kind of stuff they probably applied while it was the time to do so at the garden center?
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FUCK SLUGS. That is all.
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Thanks for the horrifying image.
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If youâre ok with killing them I accidentally discovered one summer they really like cat food - I donât know that it kills them the way beer etc does but it sure did distract them from my plants. And made my cat kennel that I stored outdoors unusable until winter 
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You should get impatiens
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Everyone I know that has worked in a garden center hates impatiens but they are my favorite summer flower!
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Sluggo works, just use sparingly because it can harm earthworms, but a few granules per plant is supposed to be okayish.
Unfortunately ducks are the only true solution to slugs.
@brute I love the pun with impatiens!
@katscratch I like them a lot too but theyâre out of favor now except for some new more vigorous strains because growing them in the same place year over year leads to some sort of soil disease buildup. Not sure if itâs fusarium or something else. They are one of the prettiest annuals ever developed that doesnât require a lot of sun though.
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My garden center stopped selling the susceptible strains several years ago. My friends hated the constant deadheading required and, as many people who work in that setting are into diverse garden looks, werenât a fan of the ubiquitous impatiens/hosta combo in many neighborhoods.
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If it was a nursery I would say yes. If it was a big box store⌠
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I can do citrus and apples in Aus without needing to spray any pest control (I do use fruit fly exclusion bags on things that need it).
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I guess I should say, in the US. Apples are susceptible to coddling moth (everywhere in the continental US I think), and all apples will be wormy without control, unless you individually bag the fruit. Peaches are especially susceptible to borers in the western US (not sure about eastern US, conditions do vary - actually, since @Greyweld is east of the Rockies, I would double check on borers since the Rockies are a barrier to some things), and certain ones will outright kill your trees. I donât really follow citrus cultivation since you can only really do it in the southern tier states! I think citrus is easier in the US than other fruits.
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I think you need some kind of spray for stone fruit here - certainly my baby nectarine had peach leaf curl and needed copper spray. And then it died anyway 
I am too lazy to spray, so exclusion bags work really well for me.
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It looks like I should spray for borers in late June/early July based on my research.
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yeah, copper fungicide I think for some things I think is recommended? Borers bore into the trunk and twigs (different kinds) though so bagging peaches wonât prevent that here. Borers are a butt. 
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It was a nursery 
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So glad I managed to reply the smaller pots of Blunt Greenhood orchids into one bigger pot.
Theyâve gone off.
The Nodding Greenhoods on the other hand should have been repotted and werenât.
And tomorrow Iâve got some Jerusalem Artichokes to harvest.
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One of my apple trees arrived snapped 
Iâm fairly certain Iâll get a replacement tree from them but Iâm so sad! Any advice on whether I can prune above the break and possibly salvage it?
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No-contact seedling delivery #1 arrived yesterday!
Black Seeded Simpson lettuce, romaine, Flashy Trout Back lettuce, Red Kitten spinach. Savoy spinach, spicy mesclun mix, walla walla onions, italian oregano, and a big strawberry thatâs already bearing.
Not pictured: some vegan vegetable fertilizer that I am curious about. I do not like putting blood or bone on my plants, but I have in the past as thatâs what was available.
This was NOT CHEAP. Especially considering the delivery. But as a non-car-owner who doesnât want to get on a crowded bus, it was worth it. And honestly, this shows ADMIRABLE restraint on my part.
I put everything except the onions into containers today. Typically my greens donât do well in containers, but this year I donât have a bunnyproof place for them (as our stay home order got extended another month so I donât even know if the community garden will happen) so they have to live on our balcony. I donât know why they always fail in containers for me?
I have warm-weather crops arriving in a month. 
Just a couple tomatoes, varieties I didnât have seed for that I know to be huge bearers. And 2 mini peppers, and some basil.
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Iâm no bare root fruit tree guy (wrong climate) but I would 100% be taping that break up and hoping for the best.
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