Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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