Re: now that the weather has calmed down

maybe you could selectively take off some of leaves that appear infected and leave most so it can establish itself?
   
  Donna
  

Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
  Thanks Tricia. Those were my thoughts too, but my reason for wanting to cut 
them back was to hopefully dispose of the leafminers and any eggs or 
non-obvious larvae from the sawflies before they spread to more leaves. I 
can drench the soil for eggs later. But I don't want to kill them off 
either. I have a couple dozen pots of them that I hope to put up for sale 
in late August.

I'll hold off on a decision for a few weeks yet.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patricia" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] now that the weather has calmed down


>I have never cut back my columbines... and if these were mine I probably
> would just let them go. But that is not from experience..just my 
> thoughts.
> It would be better for them to look a little ratty and get over it then to
> die because they didn't have enough leaves to live.
> Tricia
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kitty" 
> To: 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:34 AM
> Subject: [CHAT] now that the weather has calmed down
>
>
>>I know that you can cut columbine back to the crown now and the plants 
>>will
>>sprout new leaves.
>> My qstn is, can this be done on recently dug & potted columbines? or are
>> they already under too much stress?
>> These were dug a couple of weeks ago. Leaves look pretty ratty, some 
>> have
>> leaf miners, some appear to have sawfly damage, though I don't see the
>> larvae. I did see some about a month ago.
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Kitty
>> neIN, Zone 5
>>
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