Re: kittys sales and aphids

oops! sorry, Kitty, spoke too soon...ignore the greenhouse/ladybugs
comments. That'll teach me to read all my posts when I'm behind before
replying. :-)



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Tue 05/25, Melody < mhobertm@excite.com > wrote:
From: Melody [mailto: mhobertm@excite.com]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 02:41:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [CHAT] kittys sales and aphids

Kitty: If these plants are inside a greenhouse I would take
Donna's<br>suggestion and use ladybugs...one of their primary food
sources is<br>aphids. You can buy ladybugs online, I've seen them. One
of our local<br>nurseries stocks them occasionally. When the aphids are
gone, the<br>ladybugs will move on to other places where there are more
aphids. BTW,<br>do you have milkweed growing anywhere around where you
are having the<br>aphids? Aphids love milkweed and therefore, the
milkweed could be your<br>source.<br><br><br><br>Melody, IA (Z
5/4)<br><br>"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious." <br>--Albert Einstein<br><br> --- On Mon 05/24, Kitty <
kmrsy@comcast.net > wrote:<br>From: Kitty [mailto:
kmrsy@comcast.net]<br>To: gardenchat@hort.net<br>Date: Mon, 24 May 2004
20:03:29 -0500<br>Subject: Re: [CHAT] kittys sales and
aphids<br><br>Thanks for the tip on the Itea. The Dahlias all sold at
the plant sale.<br>I<br>explained why the leaves didn't look right, but
that they were ok<br>to sell as<br>I had sprayed them twice and saw no
new signs of them.<br>They priced them<br>low - $2.50 - because of
the<br>leaves.<br><br>Meanwhile....we had a recurring problem with
aphids on a<br>variegated<br>herbaceous sedum. Last year we sprayed, we
quarantined, we<br>sprayed to no<br>avail. Fortunately they never even
tried a taste of<br>Frosty Morn, Carmen, or<br>Matrona. I thought the
winter would finish<br>them off, but they're back. I<br>figured since I
caught them early, I'd<br>have better luck eradicating them
by<br>pruning off the affected parts<br>and spraying with insecticidal
soap. This<br>will make them thicker with<br>2 more sales to sell them
in. However, during<br>the sale I noticed they<br>were back. I pinched
some more. Then just at the<br>end of the sale, I<br>noticed they were
now on other sedums. Good grief, can<br>anyone suggest<br>a sure fire
method for getting these nasty varmints off the<br>sedums. I<br>hate to
think of those we sold taking aphids to their
new<br>homes.<br><br>Kitty<b

r>----- Original Message ----- <br>From:
"Donna"<br><justme@prairieinet.net><br>To:
<gardenchat@hort.net><br>Sent: Monday,<br>May 24, 2004 6:48
PM<br>Subject: RE: [CHAT] kittys sales was Iowa<br>storms<br><br><br>>
Meant to ask how your spider mites plants<br>survived... did they make
it<br>> for the sale?<br>><br>> My Itea didn't<br>like it here... too
hot in the summer (looked like it was<br>> frying),<br>gave one last
hurray in the fall... no life in it this spring.<br>> Hope<br>you have a
better spot for it than I did.<br>><br>> Donna<br>><br>><br>><br>> We
have no rain dates for our events. We do have a room in
the<br>><br>building<br>> > available to us and in the past we have had
the sale in<br>there, but our<br>> > sales<br>> > in recent years are
far too big for<br>this room. If it did rain, we'd<br>> try<br>> >
to<br>> > do it in<br>there, I suppose, but it would be a total
nightmare.<br>> > No, I didn't<br>buy anythi<br><br>ng. I've already
bought a few plants this<br>> year,<br>> > which I<br>shouldn't be
doing. Still, I might get something at next<br>><br>month's<br>> > sale.
We'll have our Henry's Garnet Itea potted for that<br>one.<br>> ><br>> >
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