Damping off: was Botanical Name of the week]

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• Subject: Damping off: was Botanical Name of the week]
• From: R* Z* <r*@execulink.com>
• Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:32:25 -0400 (EDT)

Jim Gray wrote:
>They're easy to grow from seed.  I bought a pack at Lowe's in March,
>started them indoors, and am planning a garden transplant for this
>weekend.  Mine are about six inches tall right now and haven't succumbed
>to damping-off _at all_, whereas I lost all my Pacific Giants delphinium
>and snapdragons to it.  There one minute, limp and nasty the next.
>*sigh* Stupid fungus...
>
Jim:  

Try rubbing some sphagnum moss (not peat moss) through a sieve and
sprinkling it on the sruface of your seed post.  It is a great inhibitor of
the damp-off fungus. 

Ruth Z
Ruth Zavitz                                     
rzavitz@execulink.com                            
Freelance Writer & Gardening Consultant, zone 6 Southern Ontario

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