Re: CULT: Bugs
From: "Shirlee Lewis" <shirleelewis@dellnet.com>
> >From: "Lynn Lamb" <plamb5@bellsouth.net>
> >
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?
Lynn,
If you consult the "experts" you will be told that the little critters won't
eat a rhizome. However, a few years ago, one of my first "major" purchases
at our bearded auction was Kasperek's BABOONS BOTTOM. This was one of
several that I bought. All the others were doing quite wonderfully. I
noticed that this one didn't seem to be going any where. When I looked
inside the entire rhizome was gone from the center out and in its place were
scads of these little bugs. I normally don't use chemicals but this was the
last straw. If I remember correctly the same type of treatment that can be
used for earwigs will succussfully get rid of the little critters.
Shirlee Lewis
Anaheim, CA
zone 9, sunset 23
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