Re: Re: [gardeners] strange plant
tr1ulium@bellsouth.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 24 Aug 2001 9:53:34 -0400
The leaves seem to have turned yellow early this year, before plants even flowered. But our part of KY (central) has had flooding.
Curing the tobacco is done in the large barns, which are often adjacent to the fields.
Elizabeth
tiarella@bellsouth.net
>
> From: "lneuru" <lneuru@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
> Date: 2001/08/24 Fri AM 09:28:14 EDT
> To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
> Subject: Re: [gardeners] strange plant
>
> we wondered abot that - we grow it here in southern Ontario but the farms
> are easily identifiable by row after row of small
> drying-and- curing buildings. maybe down there some of that can be done
> in the fields. I don't remember ever seeing yellow leaves in our tobacco
> fields, and we didn't spot any small buildings.
>
> Lucinda
>
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> > From: tr1ulium@bellsouth.net
> > To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> > Subject: Re: [gardeners] strange plant
> > Date: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:28 AM
> >
> > Ummmmm....it's tobacco.
> >
> > Elizabeth
> > Zone 6, KY
> >
> > >
> > > From: "lneuru" <lneuru@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>
> > > Date: 2001/08/24 Fri AM 07:42:24 EDT
> > > To: <gardeners@globalgarden.com>
> > > Subject: [gardeners] strange plant
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Driving through western Kentucky we spotted fields with long and
> broad,
> > > yellow leaves, about ?2 feet high. Does anyone know what this is?
> > >
> > > Lucinda
> > >
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