Re: Sweet potatoes
- Subject: Re: Sweet potatoes
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:58:47 -0400
I think it might be the sweet potato weevil (Cylas formicarius)
that's getting the states that produce edible sweet potatoes all in a
tizzy. I've read something similar somewhere that I cannot recall. I
am also not clear whether this proposed ban is only in sweet potato
production states or all over.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Tiede, Karen E <karen.tiede@eds.com>
>
> You might want to go to some effort to save them. I had a plant
person tell
> me they wouldn't be available locally (Central NC, USDA Zone 7)
next year;
> there are rumors that they carry a disease (I think fungus but it's
fuzzy)
> that's transferrable to the food crop version and the food crop
growers want
> the ornamentals GONE.
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