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To: Clint N. Suhks

You are so right about that fire blight pathogen; once an orchard’s infected, it’s impossible to get rid of it. There just isn’t enough copper or streptomycin spray to control it. I dug and burned the couple acres of rootstock I had and planted ornamentals instead.


63 posted on 08/11/2014 10:38:16 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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To: carriage_hill

Always used copper sulphate to control ponds.

Drive copper nails into stumps to control that...


65 posted on 08/11/2014 10:42:45 AM PDT by mylife
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To: carriage_hill

There were no other orchards anywhere close to me. How fire blight got there was a mystery.


66 posted on 08/11/2014 10:45:13 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks ( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
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To: carriage_hill

I just got back to the caller saying that “the gloves are off after november.” Yeah right. Naive much.


72 posted on 08/11/2014 10:54:48 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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