Part 1 - the history of HVX
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Part 1 - the history of HVX
I finally decided to take the time to start writing, and here is part 1 - the history of the HVX epidemic:
http://www.perennialnursery.com/HVX/hos ... story.html
Let me know what you think.
I will continue the series with symptoms, prevention, pictures, etc.
Hopefully these will be easy enough to print off and take with you. When it is all done we will print them off and mail them out to our mailing list, and I will see if we can get the information published.
http://www.perennialnursery.com/HVX/hos ... story.html
Let me know what you think.
I will continue the series with symptoms, prevention, pictures, etc.
Hopefully these will be easy enough to print off and take with you. When it is all done we will print them off and mail them out to our mailing list, and I will see if we can get the information published.
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Applause, applause! Very nice Chris! Thanks for doing this for us!
"A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
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This is really great, Chris. But reading about the mechanical weeding, planting, and washing on such a huge scale by the big growers makes me see how the problem, by now, is pretty much "everywhere ... everywhere!" BTW, here in Madison, in the beds around our Capitol, where thousands of tulips are planted each year, several colors/varieties failed to come up ... ruining the design of the beds with large areas where there were no tulips, just dirt. Investigation by the university plant path people resulted in the discovery that the bulbs rotted as a result of a soil fungus carried on the bulbs ... from the big growers in Holland! In order to plant tulips in those beds again, it will be necessary to remove all the soil and replace it with new. Just one more example of the dangers inherent in too-large-scale anything (floriculture, agriculture, animal husbandry, etc.)
Richelle
Richelle
Next part ????
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