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Re: [SG] Dried Blood and Blood Meal to Retard Squirrels

At 05:10 PM 3/28/98 EST, you wrote:
>
>I just called a very good nursery here and they said, "Yes, but tobacco dust
>works best. " I have never heard of tobacco dust, has anyone?

Are they talking about the nicotine you use for fumigating greenhouses?

>Is the so-called
>"tobacco virus" which infects hostas carried by tobacco plants?
>
Is that tobacco mosaic virus?  What are the symptoms in an infected hosta?
I have heard that a smoker can spread TMV to susceptible plants if they
don't wash their hands before handling plants - I don't know if that's
true, or just another way of haranging smokers.  But I was a smoker when I
planted many of my hostas, and want to know if I could have spread TMV to
them.

Sheila Smith
mikecook@pipeline.com
Z 5/6

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From: Kay Lancaster <kay@FERN.COM>
Subject:      Re: [SG] before you plant sunflower seeds...
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> Before planting sunflowers, you shold know that they emit a toxin from
> their roots which can choke out and kill surrounding plants.

Nope, it's the seed hulls with the allelopathic chemicals


Kay Lancaster    kay@fern.com
just west of Portland, OR; USDA zone 8 (polarfleece)
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