RE: Christmas beatles

HI Stewart - sounds like we are neck and neck in the great Aust -
Zealand Pumpkin Challenge. Good job I have a secret weapon Ha - Ha, He -
He.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stewart Deans [SMTP:sdeans@pcug.org.au]
> Sent:	Sunday, 21 December 1997 01:52
> To:	pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject:	Christmas beatles
> 
> Gday All,
> It is that season where Christmas beatles get up in the gum trees and
> eat
> all the leaves. They deposit their droppings on the ground and if you
> have a
> tree over your pool the droppings will clog the filter, At times the
> beatles
> fall from the trees like rain. I have the gum tree close to my patch
> and
> beatles are landing on the pumpkins. These beatles produce scarab
> grubs that
> eat the roots of grasses and cause dead patches in your lawn. I am
> interested to know if the csarab grubs are particular as to what they
> eat ie
> will they eat pumpkin roots or are they only interested in grass
> roots? Any
> thoughts?
> 
> My pumpkins are producing a number of females now and some are
> starting to
> fill out. I have removed most of them as it has been a little early
> and the
> vines have not been where I want them. This is about to change now as
> the
> runners are almost in place and I am looking at a couple of female
> flowers
> as possible starters. What is effect of the number of segments on the
> fruit?
> Is five segments a good choice, most of the flowers I have inspected
> seem to
> have five segments.
> 
> Stewart ACT Aust
> sdeans@pcug.org.au
> 
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