I’m battling spider mites on my houseplants. A few weeks ago, I found some on the ficus in Jeremy’s office. I put it in the bathtub and sprayed it down with a mixture of water/rubbing alcohol/soap per my favorite website, reddit. Yesterday, I noticed that my monstera had some yellowing leaves and I was like, huh. I wonder what is wrong with it and what was wrong with it was that it also had spider mites. I immediately put that one outside in the compost pile. I really just can’t deal. The monstera and the ficus were nowhere near each other. The ficus was in a room by itself, but the monstera was in the front hallway with about 10 other lovely (but probably now infected) houseplants. I’m a sad plant-y person this morning. But I was watching one of my favorite plant youtubers (benjiplant) and he has such a nice ASMR voice and told me, it’s just part of the process…so I’m processing.
Jeremy bought an EV charger to be delivered to the house so his parents can charge their car when they visit for thanksgiving. Here’s its 4 pronged plug.
And here is the three prong outlet so lovingly installed a few months ago. Hmmm, not quite right. Electrician is coming today at 9 to help us out.
Construction / drainage repair is still going on in the yard… I didn’t realize it was going to take this long or honestly, be this nice. The weather has been mild for the crew, which I guess is great. It rained a lot last night for the first time in months and Jeremy reports that all the newly installed drainage works great. We have a lot of leaves in the gutters, so I’m paranoid that the drainage will instantly get clogged again. I think the crew also tried to kill the gopher in the front yard. We’ll see, I think gophers are pretty smart.
My blog now can generate AI photos. This makes me sad, AI makes me sad. Anyways, here’s “pokemon on a towel in a luxury bathroom on Mars”. Not quite what I was imagining, but impressive nonetheless. What’s with the cartoon wings on the towel? Why is the towel standing up? Who keeps pens in the bathroom?
OK, I worked for a plant company unless it’s gonna get cold. Here’s a pretty easy way to deal with it. Take all the plants outside put them together. Spam underneath leaves, cause generally wear the spider mites like to hide all the way down into the soil Next if you can get some diamtenacious earth (sp?) Sprinkle it all over and especially in the soil. Leave them outside overnight if it isn’t too cold the next day or so, completely rinse the plants off the soil won’t matter that much. They should be dead then. Then once a week just spritz those plants from a plastic bottle with Alcohol or so cloth and wipe all the leaves it’s just a maintenance thing .