I have been using peat moss as a soil conditioner for some years now, but I’m beginning to rethink that because it is acid (more of which we don’t need here), and I read something about it also containing microorganisms…
Author: Bob Huesmann
basal rot and tulips
Basal rot is caused by a fungus called fusarium oxysporum spp narcissus, which lives in the soil. (See Dr. Ted Snazelle’s book, “Daffodil Diseases and Pests”, available from ADS.) It might diminish in numbers if there are no host plants,…
Organic approach–correct references
Please refer to my earlier message. The correct spelling is mycorrhizae. Mycorrhizal will also open references. VAM is an acronym for vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Don’t be offput by the language–it soon begins to make sense!
Organic approach
The NYTimes article about Harvard’s organic approach is useful, although necessarily general for newspaper purposes. I have been doing a lot of internet research over the past few years, and it seems clear that science-based knowledge about the organic aspects…
Ice Chimes
While judging at the Maryland Daffodil Society show a few years ago, we were confronted with the Ice Chimes problem–a perfectly beautiful and fresh 5 W-Y presented as IceChimes, very, very like the specimen pictured on daffnet. Not knowing the…
Weeds (a.k.a. Star of Bethlehem)
Star of Bethlehem is either ornithogalum nutans or, more likely, o. umbellatum. The description in Taylor says, “Widely naturalized in e. North America, where it is often an invasive pest in gardens.” I sure can vouch for that!