nematodes
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: nematodes
- From: W*@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 18:11:44 -0400 (EDT)
Nell said:
Re nematodes: As an organic gardener, I'd love to see research prove them
effective against the iris borer. (Of course, this would still leave the rot
and leaf-spot problems unsolved.) But aren't larva-eating nematodes soil
dwellers? That is, wouldn't borers be safely out of the soil and in the iris
by the time they're at the stage where they'd be attractive to nematodes?
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me here
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The nematode sellers claim that they (the nematodes) attack the borer larvae
on the way from the egg to the leaf. I admit to some suspicion about things I
can't see. If it really is impossible for them to do their interception
mission, then we can forget about them.
--
Jim Wilson, Miami Valley Iris Society, SW Ohio, USA, Zone 6a, AIS garden judge
growing TBs, medians, SIBs, JIs, & a few SPU & species. wilsonjh@muohio.edu
