Re: Small Space Optimaztion. Vines on Fence?

In a message dated 7/11/2000 7:50:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
carlson@sanasys.com writes:

<< Long gourds have a  specific odor that repels almost all bugs..In
 fact over 3 years I have only had to spray my plants twice ..both times
 last year do to aphids during the drought and heat!!...As you prune the
 plant you can small it..kinda smells like stink bug juice...pretty
 offensive...
 
 DAN Carlson
 PS... I have toyed with the idea of companion planting a few in the
 patch along with a pumpkin and let the gourd grow all over...maybe it
 would repel the cuc and the borers?? Just  athought....the gourd has
 asingle root system and would not "rob" to much...
  >>
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Dan...I hope to try the long gourds one of these days,but my experience with 
gourds is they really get hit hard by the mildew around here. I grew 
birdhouse gourds in 98 and  97 and had a BIG problem with mildew....i need to 
spray constantly and thats usually overhead trellis stuff...thus the question 
on spraying. interesting thought on the companion planting.....GlennA

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