Re: cult:Cutting Fans /Yellow leaves
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- Subject: Re: cult:Cutting Fans /Yellow leaves
- From: D* F* <d*@cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:04:57 -0600 (MDT)
At 08:56 AM 8/12/97 -0600, Bill wrote:
>Old leaves should be pulled off, not cut, and burned or disposed of away
>from the garden. I've found that leaf spot can be controlled by a single
>early spraying of a fungicide and then by careful cleanup. particularly in
>fall. Fungal leaf spot spores winter over on old iris leaves.
Interesting, Bill. I thought leaf spot was just a fact of life in our
humid eastern environments...what do you mean by spraying "early?" As leaf
spot shows up? Before? Which could be pretty early here; before they
bloom in many cases.
Thanks!
Dorothy Fingerhood
daf10@cornell.edu
Newfield, NY (where the humidity must have been quite close to 100% all
day--but the ground is dried to dust.)
