Re: Leaf spot
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Leaf spot
- From: D* L* <g*@rogerswave.ca>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:33:48 -0700 (MST)
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997 Croftway@aol.com wrote:
> Talk on list of organic alternatives - try these:
>
> for soft rot: dust infected rhizomes with flowers of sulphur. I've done this
> - it works.
> or: use bordeaux mixture in a similar fashion.
Bordeaux mixture marks leaves of everything but irises (TB's
anyway) so be careful when you're putting it on. I tried it on a
bed of closely packed hyacinths, tulips, daffodils etc and spent
the rest of the spring looking at chewed up leaves until they died
back.
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Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca>
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada