COOKING & planting irises
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: COOKING & planting irises
- From: "* A* R* <s*@software.nsbf.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:47:06 -0500
At 08:46 AM 4/22/96 MDT, you wrote:
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>Sharon (herb & Harley Davidson lady)
> In fact there's a book called Manifold Destiny about cooking on
>your car engine -- complete with recipes (with cooking distances).
> Has anyone tried planting garlic near their irises to keep borers
>away! I planted it at each end of my vegetable garden and had very
>little insect infestation. Don't know if it will work on borers.
>Tom Abbott (The Mad Planter -- wonder why?)Colorado Springs
Tom, I had heard of the book but never seen it. Small world.
I will find out about the garlic, I am transplanting about 25 orphans
tonight into a garlic bed. We do not seem to have borer problems here, tho
we do have beetle larvae that bore into the bulbs here during the winter,
before they metamorhose (?). I will post any interesting findings, and hope
these will bloom next year and I can perhaps find what they are. They are
more babies from the "house next door" debacle, planted last fall and doing
well.
Great info this weekend, this is the only thing I look forward to coming to
work (early, to read this) for.
Laughter and smelly (or aromaticly inclined) handed,
Sharon A. Ruck, the herb and Harley Davidson lady
