RE: nursery critters
- Subject: RE: nursery critters
- From: D*
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:00:15 +1200
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HI Paul,
Have you tried vinegar? A nurseryman once told me that this helps in
irradication of liverwort. I don't have dilution rates (if any) so
experimentation would be needed. Has anyone else heard of this?
regards
Terry Dowdeswell
692 Brunswick Road
RD1
Wanganui
New Zealand
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terry@delphinium.co.nz
http://www.delphinium.co.nz
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> Paul,
> If you mean did it suppress the growth of the nursery plant in the
> pots - the answer is no. Here is a quote from an article in the March
> 2001 issue of "Digger", the magazine of the Oregon Association of
> Nurserymen: "Within seven days of top dressing infested pots,
> Marchantia began to die, and within two weeks the weed was dead,
> leaving almost no trace of itself. Meadowfoam's (Limnanthes alba)
> effectiveness is due to multiple bioactive compounds that inhibit
> growth, making it more difficult for the liverwort to adapt." And
> there was more. (During trials) "We started noticing there was a
> growth effect on average, plants treated with meadowfoam saw 25
> percent more growth than the controls. For example, one nursery trial
> found that plants that typically take two years to produce reached
> saleable size six months early. This was done by simply incorporating
> a small amount of the meadowfoam seedmeal into a soil mix that has
> taken years to perfect for optimum fertility".
>
> In re-reading this article and more about meadowfoam on the OSU web
> site, I see that it is being marketed on a trial basis by the Natural
> Plant Products Cooperative as 2 formulations of fertilizers 1) AlbaGro
> 4/4/4 (NPK) and 2) AlbaGro 4/0/4/4s (NPKS) for acid loving plants. 3)
> I'll be heading down the valley to the Ag co-op that is selling it in
> a few days. I'll let you know if it works for me later in the year.
>
> Marilyn Dube'
> Natural Designs Nursery
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Meum71@aol.com Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:24 AM
> To: perennials@hort.net Subject: Re: nursery critters
>
> In a message dated 3/17/2002 10:28:02 AM Central Standard Time,
> mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
>
>
> > Somewhere along the line, he tried using the
> > seed meal that remains after the seeds are pressed for their oil as
> > a top dressing on nursery pot crops and found it controls liverwort.
> > Maybe
> other
> > pests too, I don't know.
>
> Did it also suppress plant growth in the pots? I do not have a lot of
> information covering liverworts in my library. Since they do produce
> both sexually and asexually control of their spread once infected
> seems do be difficult in a wet environment.
>
> Paul
>
> Paul
>
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