It was very sad. My prolific Vista Bubblegum petunias stopped blooming…just like they did last year. Sigh! But wait – Captain Jack’s BT spray to the rescue. Two weeks later and they are again blooming like crazy.
On September 6th, barely a bloom:
On September 20th, back to magnificent:
Now don’t just go out to Walmart and get Captain Jack’s BT spray for $7.
First make sure you are treating the cause of the problem; in our case it was bud worms. I’d never even heard of the culprits before. And I still haven’t seen them. But we have seen the flowers they chewed:
And tiny tiny bud worm poop:
So do your homework, and hopefully you will get an A+ and be rewarded with happy plants.
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