Re: ROT HAPPENS
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: ROT HAPPENS
- From: L*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 18:07:40 -0400
This is great - we get two completely opposite answers to the question. : )
It's the old story of the half empty/half full glass.
I am still chuckling over the letter I got from Phil Williams in which he
said he didn't have any rot in his garden - I have never seen so many rotting
iris in one place! Rows of them. Maybe not stinky bacterial soft rot, but
rot from the spring freeze damage.
And most gardeners, if they get a variety that is very prone to rot under
their growing conditions, eventually lose it, and get something else. I do
NOT doctor rot on my plants (unless it is a special favorite that usually
does ok), and they either die or recover spontaneously. My 'treatment' for
rot is to pull away the rotting foliage, expose it to air, and maybe squoosh
some of the ick away. Usually, there is some catchup housekeeping to do (you
know, giant smothering turnips or dame's rocket or fescue or sweet William's
to kill). No Comet, no Chlorox, no nothin. Usually whichever 'baloba' has
already started to rot, dies, but it doesn't generally spread to the younger,
more actively growing parts.
Linda Mann lmann76543@aol.com east TN USA
