Bill,
Unfortunately, I have been unable to find any commercial source for the
Garden Dig-It unit your link describes. I suspect it is no longer on
the market. That would argue in favor of a home manufacture approach
to obtaining one.
Years ago, when we were doing pre-plant soil fumigation
The discussion about TRV has been most interesting, but I have another
question about bud terminology.
Within the Rose family, we have crops that have differing types of
flower-containing buds:
- a single flower, no shoots -- Apricot, peach, and nectarine (plus
some individual buds on plum)
Lorraine,
You might have a different species of Rhagoletes fruit fly instead of
the apple maggot species. You might be able to obtain adult flies to ID
by placing the infested fruit onto moist, sandy soil put a plastic bag
in a box to allow the larvae to finish growing and then crawl out of
An interesting idea. One would need to keep weed growth within the
flat fence area under control so that it would be obvious to those
animals that might be considering traversing it. Any idea on what the
necessary border strip width might need to be? Raccoons probably
wouldn't need more
Dave,
The reason for my comment was that very small, bumpy, deformed apple
fruit can be the result of rosy apple aphid feeding on young fruit at
early stages. Campyloma bug feeding on young fruit also can cause
deformed fruit. Both are problems best addressed by entomologists
within our
Interesting variation on spelling of the material. Here it is spelled
Ethrel. To my understanding, its use here in Colorado is more to
enhance return bloom (I think by enhancing thinning in conjunction w/
other thinners prior to flower initiation -- but I could easily be wrong
on that).
