O.K.
I have begun implementing steps to control nematodes and give my poor plants a fighting chance. I only wish I had done this nearly a year ago. Here are some of the hilites...
I dug out the sand about 3 ft wide and a foot or so deep. Filled with good fertile soil and kitty litter (instead of vermiculite. It loosens soil and adds natural acidic clay for a fraction of the cost.) after a bleach bath and some trimming. Also added Azomite to soil and Mykos innoculant to roots.
See how well the last surgery helped out the Paggi... lots of nice new roots and a strong cigar shooting... I hated to dig it up but know they would just come back in a few months.
Sand is supposed to be the best thing for nematodes to spread in, so out with all the sand... Here is what I used to fill the hole:
Plus a little of this...
The bag of manure is the one I use for fertilizing as it is .5. 5. 5 like black cow (only much less expensive.). The other bags I filled the hole with are also cow manure and compost but at the rate of .05 .05 .05. Both from walmart.
Paggi roots covered in Mykos innoculant before planting..
All done. Back in the ground all safe and sound...
I did the same for the VC out by the fence which was nearly dead. Went to lift it out after digging and outer PS was like slime...slipped off like rotten skin. It also had some damage inside the PS... See here, the VC and it's pup...
I trimmed off a bunch of small pups to keep the strength for growing and getting strong...
The pup...
Something in the PS... (Nothing in PS of Paggi.)
