Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don't think so! No GMO stuff originating here - only what drifts in on the wind, kind of like the cedar rust! Tina On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Maybe you need some GM apple trees? > > ;-))) > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 28, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > > > PESO: > > > > It started to rain yesteday afternoon, after we had finished planting 75 > > tomato plants! The rain brings out the cedar rust on all of the cedar > > trees around here: > > > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149915885 > > > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149915887 > > > > The cedar rust sends out spores that infect the apple trees with a > fungus. > > The only cure is to cut down all of the cedar trees within a 4 mile > > radius. We plan to cut the ones on our farm but will have to spray the > > apple trees to prevent the fungus from other cedar trees from infecting > > them :-( There are cedar resistent apple trees, but they aren't totally > > successful in the face of this much rust!! > > > > It's the weirdest looking stuff I've ever seen and I had never seen it > > before we moved here. > > > > C&C and suggestions greatly appreciated! > > > > Tina > > > > -- > > Tina Manley, ASMP > > www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com