Re: Joe Pye Weed & Borer
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- Subject: Re: Joe Pye Weed & Borer
- From: D* B* <d*@ptialaska.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:31:34 -0700 (MST)
Irisquilt wrote:
>
> Marty and Jas are very fine gardeners and don't deserve this train of thought
> even from an area so far removed from borer territory.
<<<SNIP>>>
> Anna Mae Miller zone 5
I hope I'm not being thin-skinned about this. I thought the matter was
stone dead.
I believe my original question, precipitated by the borer disclaimer in
the catalog,
was whether there was a treatment that could be used on the receiving
end of an
order to assure that we remain far removed from borer territory. I
thought it was
an innocent and appropriate question as it would probably only take a
couple of
borer eggs in some dead foilage on a rhizome to make this temperate part
of Alaska
part of borer territory.
No one has answered the question, but I have sure heard what fine people
run the
Joe Pye Weed Garden. I did read on another list that a bath in a 10%
solution of ammonia
would kill most pests and their eggs. Any comments????
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