RE: OT-BIO:Nancy Gildart, CULT: borer
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- Subject: RE: OT-BIO:Nancy Gildart, CULT: borer
- From: M*@fin.gc.ca (Mark, Maureen)
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 07:27:30 -0600 (MDT)
Welcome to the list. We battle borer regularly too. We gemerally try to =
spray with Cygon three times in the spring -- otherwise it's the squish and =
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cut method. Would appreciate a report on your nematode experiment.
Maureen
mark.maureen@fin.gc.ca
ottawa, zone 4 -- Breakers is my last TB to bloom, species and Siberians ar=
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going strong and Japanese are starting to put up bloom stalks.
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From: ngildart
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Subject: OT-BIO:Nancy Gildart, CULT: borer
Date: Sunday, June 22, 1997 8:53PM
Hello fellow iris lovers...
My name is Nancy Gildart and I live in clay south of Chicago.
I've loved iris ever since I can remember and was lucky to check out an
actual Dykes the Genus Iris, which I held on to for the 3 years I worked at=
the University of Michigan Graduate Library.
I battle the borer regularly, but not vigilantly enough. I dig the plants
up, divide them, do the clorox thing, plant them elsewhere and hope for the=
best.This morning, probably too late to be effective, I injected them with
beneficial nematodes - a treatment I read about on the web and in the
Gardens Alive catalog. We'll see.... I hope to build some raised beds this
summer so I'll transplant them there.
I belong to HIPS and love the old varieties best. Most of mine are
unidentified.
I have I. variegata, MISS INDIANA, GUDRUN, and I. pallida variegata that I
know about.
I am a BFA student at the Art Institute of Chicago and gardening is part of=
my art practice.
I also collect old gardening books.
Looking forward,
Nancy
