--------------139A51C091CFB7465A7EDBB5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Penny, and my other friends, I must say, Jim Delahanty is a truly lovely human being, gentle and very wise, and a consummate rosarian, someone I would love to get to know better. In his estimation, we are doing just about everything we can do to retard the growth of mildew. He said that it is just a problem that is endemic here in the San Fernando Valley, and that with varied application of fungicides on a regular basis, we should soon be out of the woods, once the hot weather arrives. Will it ever? (Here it is mid May and we are putting on the heat in the morning to take the chill off the house!) One thing which I would like to pass on to the group, which Jim told me of yesterday, is the marvelous link on roseshow.com to its site dealing with pesticides beneficial to roses...and the dosages. Friends, I don't know about you, but I can't remember from one application to the next, exactly how much of what pesticide/fungicide to use. This site will help all of us immeasurably. Yes, I am abundantly aware that there are numerous home grown measures one can take, including organic ones utilizing natural biocontrols. I use them, too. But in some cases, one, IMHO, has to haul out the big guns if one is to have any garden at all. It was truly lovely to meet a gentleman, in the true sense of the word, who truly loves gardening and is willing to share his lifetime of wisdom so eagerly. And that is what this group is all about: sharing our love of gardening with each other and sharing what little bits of wisdom we have picked up along the way. Happy gardening! Ron --------------139A51C091CFB7465A7EDBB5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">Hello, Penny, and my other friends,
I must say, Jim Delahanty is a truly lovely human being, gentle and very wise, and a consummate rosarian, someone I would love to get to know better.
In his estimation, we are doing just about everything we can do to retard the growth of mildew. He said that it is just a problem that is endemic here in the San Fernando Valley, and that with varied application of fungicides on a regular basis, we should soon be out of the woods, once the hot weather arrives. Will it ever? (Here it is mid May and we are putting on the heat in the morning to take the chill off the house!)
One thing which I would like to pass on to the group, which Jim told me of yesterday, is the marvelous link on roseshow.com to its site dealing with pesticides beneficial to roses...and the dosages. Friends, I don't know about you, but I can't remember from one application to the next, exactly how much of what pesticide/fungicide to use. This site will help all of us immeasurably.
Yes, I am abundantly aware that there are numerous home grown measures one can take, including organic ones utilizing natural biocontrols. I use them, too. But in some cases, one, IMHO, has to haul out the big guns if one is to have any garden at all.
It was truly lovely to meet a gentleman, in the true sense of the word, who truly loves gardening and is willing to share his lifetime of wisdom so eagerly.
And that is what this group is all about: sharing our love of gardening with each other and sharing what little bits of wisdom we have picked up along the way.
Happy gardening!
Ron --------------139A51C091CFB7465A7EDBB5--