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Is gardening as a whole a hit and miss when trying to get a good harvest? (lemmy.world)
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What I mean is, do you get better crop yield in one year and a year later you don't get much depending on how bad or good the season was?

I'm at zone 7 UK if that helps. We've just started to try gardening this year and the summer season has been scorching most of the time and with autumn rolling in it's still fairly warm but not sunny.

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[โ€“] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would usually recommend using it after sundown. Moths are nocturnal.

Don't use it during the morning or daytime because you run the risk of it still being liquid and creating a lensing effect when the sun gets hot and burn the fruit. Same reason you shouldn't water any plants during full sun.

[โ€“] Dis32@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah that makes the most sense tbh, but what I've read and what I've experienced it doesn't seem to work with the soap spray? They just keep coming back, the eggs I mean, or do I just keep doing it everyday? From what I see the moths don't come out everyday just probably in good sunny weather if that makes sense.

...I don't know why you got downvoted ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

No idea. Don't worry about it though. ๐Ÿ˜Ž