Soft rot
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- Subject: Soft rot
- From: J* P* <j*@extranet.ru>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:41:33 -0700 (MST)
Mar 03/09/97 16:57, Griff Crump wrote:
> Juri -- Nothing to be sorry about --- except having the Erwinia, of
> course! (And if that's all you've got, you have a right to be jubilant!)
> I just thought many of our folks might not have heard of it. What does
> it do to your plants?
>
Griff,
you gave very efficient advices to Selia concerning soft rot.
I leave the damaged rhizomes in the grownd as long as possible too.
I'm very experienced in chirurgie, but not in prophylaxis! :-)
I had a pure clay there, when began gardening 10 years ago.
The clay was so dense, that spring water was forming a bog every year.
Now, my soil is much more drainer, but clay is clay.
Our summer is rather raining, and it is enough a week of rain to rot
break out. So I cover my iris beds before planting by 2-3 inch of sand.
It give good result, but not as long as like. Next year soft rot appear.
What preventive measures do you use?
Juri Pirogov,
near Moscow, where spring is very early, but still 10 inches of snow
