On Sunday I was up at 6AM and got my post up. I wasn’t moving too fast but managed to get ready for the day ahead. My brother was coming from CT and we were picking up lunch and going to the cemetery to plant flowers.
Tom arrived just after 9:30AM to do the first spraying of the Pinion trial.
Here’s the overview:
“Pinion by Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA) is a concentrate to be diluted for spraying designed to control fungal and bacterial plant diseases by modifying the leaf surface environment. It protects crops from pathogens like powdery mildew, offering an organic alternative to conventional fungicides.
Pinion is best used as a preventative treatment application one to two weeks before disease pressure occurs, or as a treatment once the presence of disease is observed in the field.
Key Features and Benefits
Disease Suppression: Effective against many bacterial and fungal pathogens, including powdery mildew and blight.
Mechanism: Works by changing the redox environment on the leaf surface and altering the microbiome, making it inhospitable for pathogens.
Application: Ideal for houseplants and garden plants, it acts as a preventative or early-treatment spray.
Safety: Considered a minimum-risk, 25(b) exempt pesticide
Ingredients:
1.4%–1.5% citric acid and 0.1% cinnamon oil as active ingredients. The inert ingredients include D-glucose, vinegar (acetic acid), lactic acid, maltodextrin, and water.”
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It’s brand new this year and while a bit expensive, I’m hoping it will work better than the raw milk spray I’ve been using.
He sprayed it on the comfrey, lilacs, phlox, lungwort, and bee balm for the powdery mildew, the peach tree for the leaf curl, the roses for blackspot, and the bottoms as far up as he could reach for the apple and crabapple.
I’ll be curious to see how effective it is.
My brother works for a tulip farm in CT and he brought a bunch of tulips for me and a couple to leave on my mom’s grave.
Once I had the tulips in water we headed out to pick up our lunch. The boys had ordered 6 popovers in addition to scallop dinners. We had them warm up 3 of them and munched on them in the car on the way to the cemetery.
We ate in the car near the headstone and then set to work on the stones and plants.
I started cleaning out the weeds and planting the flowers and the boys started cleaning off the gravestones. I had planted creeping thyme last year and it had done very well, but had encroached on the stones.
My youngest brother got out the cleaning stuff and went to work on the stones. The spray cleaner said it didn’t need washed off which was good as the cemetery has yet to turn the water back on. One day we will remember to bring water…
My mom’s mom is also buried in this cemetery so we went over to her stone and put some flowers in and cleaned up the stone.
Once we had finished we took the River Road all the way home, stopping for asparagus on the way.
My brother headed back to CT and I headed to bed. I was really exhausted and slept until nearly 6PM.
Sunset
I made some supper and just sat in my chair watching TikToks until bedtime at 9PM.
On Monday the guy for heat pumps comes to do the evaluation in the morning and I have the last farm transition class in the evening. I’m hoping I can get outside and get some of the new plants in the ground during the day.