RE: Sudden Plant Death (SPD)
- Subject: RE: Sudden Plant Death (SPD)
- From: C* J*
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:29:57 -0700
You might look into the possibility of grubs - I'm sorry I haven't done the
research to give you the name of the beast, but the neighbor and I have both
been hit by similar symptoms, and we are gopher-free (Los Angeles,
foothills). He has gone to the trouble to spray his area with nematodes(?),
a product called Grub-be-gone, and has not seen a recurrence. I have only
seen the problem in my vegetables, and the whole thing has been redug and
grubs tossed out (on another project, but to the delight of the blue-jays)
and I haven't had a problem this season.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nan Sterman [n*@plantsoup.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 10:44 AM
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Sudden Plant Death (SPD)
Good Summer to you all!
I would like to explore a phenomenon that has hit my garden hard this
late summer, that is Sudden Plant Death (SPD). By that, I mean the
phenomenon where my garden is growing along just fine when suddenly,
in late August or early September, individual plants wither and die,
seemingly overnight. I am not talking plants that have just been
installed -- these plants have been around for three months to
several years and been rowing quite happily. I've seen this happen
with salvias, lavendars, anisodontea, mimulus, and other medit-type
plants. I've checked to see if the problem is gophers (it's not),
overwater (it's not), underwater (it's not), just my garden (it's
not, I see it in other nearby gardens and planted areas).
To add to the confusion, SPD will strike a single plant in a drift of
the same plants.
Is this fungus? Something else?
Nan
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Nan Sterman
San Diego County California
Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11
