Re: CULT: % of losses
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- Subject: Re: CULT: % of losses
- From: D* S* <s*@molalla.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:13:01 -0700 (MST)
MastrGardn@aol.com wrote:
>
> I, too, have trouble with varmits eating my TB's. They seem to like the
> under side of the rhizomes, and often I dont' realize that it has been eaten
> until new growth starts in the spring and that rhizome fails to thrive. We
> have many moles, but I am told that moles do not eat iris. I would like to
> have suggestions as to what is eating the rhizomes. This year, as I have
> been cleaning the iris beds, I have found leaves chewed at the outer edges
> about one to two inches above the ground. This is the first that this has
> happened. What did it? Do dear like iris leaves?
Hi;
No, it has been our experience that deer do NOT like iris leaves, and
nor do cows. The deer prefer things like the new tender leaves on the
Japanese maples, and the new shoots on the dogwood and the plum trees.
They almost ate my sugar maple in it's entirety! Sounds like your old
iris borer may be at it, or some very healthy slugs. Do you peole have
them in the east, or is it something we get here in the pacific
northwest instead of borers just to even us out?
Nancy
