 Get the soil off the base of your crape myrtle. Crape myrtles have big, beautiful flares. And then you spray with the spinosad soap to knock off the current workings of the scale, and that also helps with the powdery mildew. And then you do the rest of the sick tree treatment, which ends with spraying Garrett juice. Now, the only thing I would add in this case at the very end, or you could do it at the beginning, either one, spray with cornmeal tea.