RE: CULT: borers
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: RE: CULT: borers
- From: M*@fin.gc.ca (Mark, Maureen)
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:43:50 -0600 (MDT)
Lucky you, Barbara. After two sprayings of Cygon, I am now in the second =
stage of cutting out the little monsters as they proceed down the leaves. =
Found seven so far.
Maureen
mark.maureen@fin.gc.ca
Ottawa (Zone 4) -- where Coral Beauty, American Beauty, Kah-nee-ta, Glass =
Slipper, Warrior King, Chief Waukesha, Breakers, Cycles, Syncopation, Maui =
Surf, Music Box Dancer are still blooming -- and I still can't find my =
Garden Log to identify my Siberians!
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From: Barbara Mann
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: CULT: borers
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 1997 11:44
>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, th=
e =
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.
