CULT: borers
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- Subject: CULT: borers
- From: "* M* <I*@msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:44:42 -0600 (MDT)
>From Ellen G:
Linda Mann's stories about rot has made me go round the beds
daily and 1.touch the rhizome 2. sniff and see if I smell rot
and 3. sniff the flower (no logic in that). The neighbors
knew that I was wacky with all the flowers but now I
perform this strange ritual while wearing the bug-baffler suit
- a netted number that I accessorize with a bright yellow
University of West Virginia baseball hat.
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The mental picture I have of you is enough to make me thing this would be
another fun thing for the corkboard!
I have a question about borers for Ellen or anyone else (Bill, are you
there?): are there any other plants besides iris that the borer resides in?
If so, would it be possible to plant these with the iris as a trap crop,
destroying them as soon as infestation is seen? Probably with our luck, the
only other plants favored by the borers are more expensive than iris.
Barb, in Santa Fe, where I count myself lucky not to have the borer. Several
times a day.
