27 Jun 2025, Friday

 27 Jun 2025, Friday

Prioritized Daily

10:30 am - Temple Appointment Manti Debbie and friends from America Heritage school for an endowment session

7 pm - Chalk it Up restaurant for dinner, Debbie and her friends from American Heritage School

Pickup suite from dry cleaners at Trailside Dry Clearing 1870 West Traverse Park Thanksgiving Point, Lehi ($17.22)

Note: Tesla. On Friday, June 27, 2025, we completed our first fully autonomous delivery with no one in the car. Model Y drove itself from our Austin Gigafactory to our customer’s driveway using nothing but our Robotaxi technology, with zero human intervention needed.

We got up at 6:30 am, and had prayer together.  Jody went to meet her sister Loura and jog.  I took Debbie to meet her friends to drive down to the Manti Temple.  I picked up my blue suite from the dry cleaners near Thanksgiving Point.  They are $3 less than the cleaners in American Fork.  I went to the Legacy Center to exercise before going to the Saratoga Springs Temple this morning.  I met Corey L. Duckworth, 1st or 2nd Counselor in the Temple Presidency.  When I got home and finished lunch, Porter and one of his friends came by wanting to get a job filling our water-softener with salt and keep it filled.  I told him we would be glad to do business with him; carrying 80 pounds down the stairs is not as easy as it once was.  Grandma Debbie called, and I let them talk.  Debbie wants him to take the boxes and items stored in our garage to Deseret Industries.  Paula Sodurstom in Ephraham, UT, gave back 8 boxes of lessons Debbie created for teaching when she was at American Heritage School, which Paula had borrowed.  I remembered when I was about Porter's age, wanting to make money.  I saw a calendar with advertising in a dry goods or grain store in Tallapoosa.  I copied the name and address of the calendar company, went to many of the stores in town, and sold orders for the next year's calendars to the merchants.  (This is in My First Years on Earth, page 77, before I started keeping a daily journal in 1976.)  Debbie cooked dinner and I sprayed the roses and fruit trees with  F-Stop for fungicide.  I will work them some more tomorrow. Debbie and I had prayer together before going to bed.

Note:  I went through my journal from 2023 looking for what I have done in the past for the fruit trees, grape vines, and roses.

Dan Owens texted me what I need for the fruit trees and rose bushes so I ordered a container of earwig bait, Sluggo Plus 

Spray fruit trees with Neem with Sevin and F-Stop for fungicide 

We have blister mites in the pear trees also powdery mildew.  I need to spray Dormant Oil on the fruit trees, and maybe the grape vines in late March.  I need to rotate spraying the fruit trees every 2 weeks using (Hi-Yield) Malathion or Permethrin for Aphids and insecticide; and Neem with Sevin and F-Stop for fungicide the next two weeks.  Every month spray the pear and apple trees with Fougieide: F-Stop (which I purchased) or Consan 20 for mildew every 3 months.  I sprayed the trees with Fougieide F-Stop. 

Monday, May 8, 2023, I sent Dan Owens a check for $75.00 for the pruning work he did in our backyard. Now June 2025 I am paying him $150 for a visit. 

1. Earwigs can cause damage by chewing holes in leaves and flowers, but they can also be beneficial by eating other garden pests. 

bait, Sluggo Plus 

2. Fire Blight spray – Ferti-lome, streptomycin (1tablespoon power in 2.5 gallons of water) Spray in the spring, before and during blooming and early shoot growth. DO NOT GET ON SKIN. antibiotics and copper-based products applied during the bloom period to prevent infections. Streptomycin, oxytetracycline, and kasugamycin are effective antibiotics, but resistance to streptomycin is a growing concern. Copper products, like Bordeaux mixture, can also be used but may cause fruit russeting. Applying these chemicals requires careful timing and coverage to be effective.      NEEM OIL CAN ERADICATE FIRE BLIGHT, a bacterial disease that instigates the leaves of plants to wilt and seem as though they have been burned. To avoid fire blight, you must SPRAY WHILE TREES ARE DORMANT.  The bacterium that causes fire blight cankers hibernates on branches, twigs, and trunks of trees.

3. Dormant Oil – Powdery mildew, blister mites - (Hi-Yield) Malathion or Permethrin for Aphids (an a minute bug that feeds by sucking sap from plants. It reproduces rapidly, often producing live young without mating, and may live in large colonies that cause extensive damage to crops).  Sevin and Neem oil will kill Aphids. 

 Insecticide, a substance used for killing insects. Powdery mildew and blister mites are common issues for GRAPEVINES, among other plants. Powdery mildew is a fungal disease, while blister mites are tiny pests that cause galls on leaves. Both can be managed, with sulfur applications often being effective for both, especially in managing blister mites during their autumn migration to buds, according to pest management resources.  The MOST EFFECTIVE TIME TO APPLY SPRAYS for blister mites is in the fall, just after leaf drop, or in late winter as buds begin to swell.

 

Neem with Sevin and F-Stop for fungicide, which is a type of pesticide specifically designed to kill or inhibit the growth of fungi, to be applied following bud break and during the summer.

F-Stop products might have broad capabilities, but their primary function is to prevent and kill diseases, NOT INSECTS, and will not stop Aphids. 

4.  Permethrin and Malathion are both insecticides, but they have different chemical structures, mechanisms of action, and uses. Hi-Yield Indoor/Outdoor Broad Insecticide, Permethrin, a synthetic pyrethroid, disrupts sodium channels in insect nerves, while malathion, an organophosphate, inhibits an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase. Permethrin is often preferred for scabies and lice treatment due to its higher efficacy and wider use in these applications