At the top o’ the thumb here in WI, and my first tomatoes are blushing. Decided to use Bonide rot stop product since they are in containers and it has been hot and dry here. Potato plants in grow bags are seeing a little Japanese beetle activity (tried diotomaceous earth and can’t say if it worked or not) and starting to show signs their life cycle is coming to an end. My small outdoor pvc pipe hydroponic system has beautiful lettuce, kale, beans, peas and is sucking up solution in the heat!
S. J They say that red cedar oil repels japanese beetles. Maybe spray with Neem and red cedar oils with some detergent as a surfactant. Test it on your plants first to see if they burn! I found it somewhat effective on my plum trees. (My plum trees which between the low winter temperatures and high summer heat here which already do not do well, would be totally skeletonized by the Japanese Beetles if I did not use a garden fabric bag.)
Door County, the Thumb.... I got lost on the corner of Cana Island road and Cana Island road for a couple of minutes once (Thats what the sign post at the cross road said!) Cherry trees! Al Johnson’s! Goats on the roof and Swedish Waitresses! Door County has and old meteor strike someone down toward Green Bay!