Re: Re: CULT: leaf spot

In a message dated 1/7/2008 1:21:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
lmann@lock-net.com writes:

Maybe do  as Neil M. once suggested I do - buy a giant fan to keep the 
air  circulating and foliage dry. Build a greenhouse over them complete 
with  dehumidifier?



I gave serious thought this season to the purchase of one of  those propane 
patio heaters that looks like a streetlight. Not for the  irises, but for some 
stuff I have in pots that is tenderish. I had visions  of not messing about 
with the mini-hoop coldframe and the silo, which is two  hemispherical mini-hoop 
frames turned on their ends and tied together, netting  me, when covered with 
plastic, a protected four foot tall area about large  enough for the 
camellias, the daphne, the osmanthus, a rosemary and my parsley  pot. As I say, I 
considered it---visions of all the creatures gathered  around under it rubbing 
their paws on really bad nights, the squirrels, the  possum, the coon, any 
rodents that my little cat Purrsica has not yet  dispatched, like a Peaceable 
Kindom---but I finally decided the whole idea  was pluperfect against nature and as 
such was bound to backfire. But, boy, was I  tempted, himself urging me on in 
that way he has of abetting my  folly.  
 
As for big fans, like those supremely elegant six foot diameter chrome  ones, 
I want one of those, too. I figure not only can I cool the whole  garden 
down, I can blow all the mosquitoes and the smells and flies from  my neighbor's 
dog run all the way to kingdom come at the flip of  a switch. As it is, I get a 
lot of mileage out of an oscillating  sprinkler. 
 
Griff, I don't have any spot at all and I think one reason why is that I  cut 
off every scrap of diseased foliage the minute it appears. How big is that  
spread? It's supposed to be warm tomorrow, so why not get over there and whack  
it back. You know very well you are going to loose a lot of it when  the cold 
weather gets here anyway. Get the worst of the spores off the property.  My 
favorite tool is a pair of classic Fiskars sewing scissors, the really sharp  
ones with the orange handle. You can pick them up at Tarzhay for about ten  
bucks. Fabulous garden implement. What I do have right now is aphids. The  
loathesome pink ones.
 
Cordially,
 
Anner Whitehead
Just making do in Richmond VA USDA Zone 7, where it is 71 degrees.  Reminds 
me of the day in January we got married. Driving off on our honeymoon  with 
sandles on, a box of chocolates on the front seat, and all the  windows in the 
car open. Bette Midler on the stereo, of course. Zoom  zoom.



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