Re: REB: ZURICH

From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>

>From: "Lynn Lamb" <plamb5@bellsouth.net>
>
>    All the cultivars that I ordered and planted this summer are putting on
>new growth...only had one soft rot this year, so far.  Or, could it have
>been eaten at the soil surface by pillbugs/rolly-pollys???  What is the best
>remedy for those bugs in the garden?  They are everywhere in all my gardens
>in large quantitites.

I'm no insect expert (entomologist?), but I am under the impression that
these little bugs are good bugs.  Good for the garden like worms are.  They
eat decaying plant stuff and convert it into bug poop which is dynamite
fertilizer for your plants.  So you should be glad they are everywhere.
Besides, I don't even think even nuclear weapons could get rid of them.  :)

When I was a kid I was taught the gray ones are the boys and the pink ones
are the girls.  Is this true?  (They really are gray & pink, but they might
just be different species or something.)

Who's our resident entomologist on Iris-Talk anyway??

Dennis Kramb; dkramb@badbear.com
Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, SIGNA, SLI, & Miami Valley Iris Society
primary interests: ABs, REBs, LAs, Native SPEC and SPEC-X hybrids
(my gardening URL:  http://www.badbear.com/dkramb/home.html)



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