Hello All, I was hoping to get a little advice from anyone who may have encountered a situation like this before. We are working with an artist this fall who will be growing plants in our gallery.
We are still narrowing down the species of plant (considering something like common chickweed, dead nettle, rye grass, Virginia creeper, and/or English ivy) and the exact mechanism for growing them. My colleague is doing some tests of grow lights in the gallery this week. There will be plants, soil, an irrigation system possibly built out of water bottles and IV tubes and a system of grow lights in the ceiling. Besides sterilizing the soil, washing the roots of the plants as much as possible, removing any dead leaves, and laying out pest traps when we are closed, what mitigation measures should I be taking? Any advice on where is best to place traps/what kinds of traps I should buy? And what else should I be worried about? Is there anything else I can do before hand to minimize our pest risk? Would love some advice from someone who has dealt with this type of thing before! Thanks so much, Ariana -- Ariana M. Webber Registrar for Exhibitions MIT List Visual Arts Center 20 Ames Street, Building E15-109 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA 617-253-6633 office 503-991-2253 mobile listart.mit.edu<http://listart.mit.edu/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/39BFC589-021F-4D11-973A-4C3E7ED281EA%40mit.edu.
