Re: [gardeners] gardeners Digest V2 #1682
Ron Hay (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:08:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello, Turtlewoman (What is your name, please?)
It seems we are having similar problems here in Southern California. Our eggplant leaves were beginning to look like grandma's doilies until we sprayed BOTH with insecticidal soap (ineffective), and then hauled out the big guns of malathion. They are doing beetter now, but we will keep an eye peeled.
Our corn, too, is tassling out at about 30" inches, but not all of the varieties are: chiefly the "calico" variety, and not the white corn. Here, it cannot be the incessant rain, because we have not had any since May 2nd, and even that late rain is very unusual for us.
As for soil, my wife tills in compost, gypsum, redwood compost, steer manure and compost, every year, so it cannot be for lack of nutrients.
The nursery man offered the opinion on Saturday that it was because we had had almost two solid months of overcast, with daily highs in the high 60s, what we here in the Los Angeles area fondly refer to as "June Gloom," even when it is the predominant weather pattern in May. ( I call it our May-June fog bank.)
Does anyone else have any ideas?
Ron, who is gnashing his teeth because the squirrels got almost all of the apricots this year, since he did not have chance to net the tree before going to Germany
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<DIV>Hello, Turtlewoman (What is your name, please?)</DIV>
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<DIV>It seems we are having similar problems here in Southern California. Our eggplant leaves were beginning to look like grandma's doilies until we sprayed BOTH with insecticidal soap (ineffective), and then hauled out the big guns of malathion. They are doing beetter now, but we will keep an eye peeled.</DIV>
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<DIV>Our corn, too, is tassling out at about 30" inches, but not all of the varieties are: chiefly the "calico" variety, and not the white corn. Here, it cannot be the incessant rain, because we have not had any since May 2nd, and even that late rain is very unusual for us.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for soil, my wife tills in compost, gypsum, redwood compost, steer manure and compost, every year, so it cannot be for lack of nutrients.</DIV>
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<DIV>The nursery man offered the opinion on Saturday that it was because we had had almost two solid months of overcast, with daily highs in the high 60s, what we here in the Los Angeles area fondly refer to as "June Gloom," even when it is the predominant weather pattern in May. ( I call it our May-June fog bank.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Does anyone else have any ideas?</DIV>
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<DIV>Ron, who is gnashing his teeth because the squirrels got almost all of the apricots this year, since he did not have chance to net the tree before going to Germany<IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/02.gif"></DIV>
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