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Years ago the cranberry industry thought they had a market for the
grindings left over after the harvest. They sold it as mulch. Unfortunately the mulch was infested with dodder, a parasitic plant that forms dense masses of yellow tendrils all over bogs - and gardens! A local garden center bought coreopsis plants that had been mulched with the grindings. An around-the-corner neighbor put in five across the front of their yard. When I noticed the dodder I tried to tell the owner that they really should get rid of it, He never did a thing about it, for three years his coreopsis plants were *covered* with dodder - the idiot probably thought it was supposed to be that way. Anyhoo, he sold the house, and the new neighbors promptly removed the plants - must have known they were no good. This didn't happen, however, before a nice bird dropped a present for my next-door neighbor and me. I was out on a walk one morning and walked back between our houses and found a huge patch, probably 10'x10'. We've been battling it all summer, and I think we may have control of it now. I did, however, find this poke weed stem - I've been scouring the ground, and not looking up G -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked ****************************** |
Dodder - 2 pictures
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Ann wrote: Years ago the cranberry industry thought they had a market for the grindings left over after the harvest. They sold it as mulch. Unfortunately the mulch was infested with dodder, a parasitic plant that forms dense masses of yellow tendrils all over bogs - and gardens! A local garden center bought coreopsis plants that had been mulched with the grindings. An around-the-corner neighbor put in five across the front of their yard. When I noticed the dodder I tried to tell the owner that they really should get rid of it, He never did a thing about it, for three years his coreopsis plants were *covered* with dodder - the idiot probably thought it was supposed to be that way. Anyhoo, he sold the house, and the new neighbors promptly removed the plants - must have known they were no good. This didn't happen, however, before a nice bird dropped a present for my next-door neighbor and me. I was out on a walk one morning and walked back between our houses and found a huge patch, probably 10'x10'. We've been battling it all summer, and I think we may have control of it now. I did, however, find this poke weed stem - I've been scouring the ground, and not looking up G -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked Does Dodder make a hardy ground cover? -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
Dodder - 2 pictures
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Sj wrote: Yes, if I'd let it strangle all the flowers in my butterfly garden ... Sj I read earlier that it's a parasite... Is it truly parasitic or just invasive? -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:52:08 -0500, Sj wrote:
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:30:08 -0400, Ann wrote: Years ago the cranberry industry thought they had a market for the grindings left over after the harvest. They sold it as mulch. Unfortunately the mulch was infested with dodder, a parasitic plant that forms dense masses of yellow tendrils all over bogs - and gardens! A local garden center bought coreopsis plants that had been mulched with the grindings. An around-the-corner neighbor put in five across the front of their yard. When I noticed the dodder I tried to tell the owner that they really should get rid of it, He never did a thing about it, for three years his coreopsis plants were *covered* with dodder - the idiot probably thought it was supposed to be that way. Anyhoo, he sold the house, and the new neighbors promptly removed the plants - must have known they were no good. This didn't happen, however, before a nice bird dropped a present for my next-door neighbor and me. I was out on a walk one morning and walked back between our houses and found a huge patch, probably 10'x10'. We've been battling it all summer, and I think we may have control of it now. I did, however, find this poke weed stem - I've been scouring the ground, and not looking up G Oh, man ... had forgotten all about my battle w/ this stinking parasite ... found it one year in my flower garden ... had absolutely no idea what it was until someone identified it for me ... a battle is right ... but eventually got rid of all of it & had no recurrence the following year ... Unbelievable stuff ... Sj Stuff really is a bane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta#Appearance |
Dodder - 2 pictures
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Sj wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:32:26 -0500, Omelet wrote: In article , Sj wrote: Yes, if I'd let it strangle all the flowers in my butterfly garden ... Sj I read earlier that it's a parasite... Is it truly parasitic or just invasive? Do some googling ... check the site joevan mentions in his post or this one: http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/dodder.html I'm sure there are more ... Sj I followed the wiki link in the last post. That said enough. ;-) I have enough trouble with ball moss and mistletoe. Thanks! -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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"Ann" wrote in message ... Dodder! Heavens, it must be more than fifty years since I heard dodder mentioned. I never see it these days - in Yorkshire, England. Mary |
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In message , Omelet
writes Does Dodder make a hardy ground cover? Dodder is parasitic - a vampire menace that sucks the sap of other plants instead of photosynthesising for itself. Here in the UK we regard it as a curiosity: I've seen it growing wild on low heath and not doing its hosts much harm, I've never seen it on ornamentals. It covers other perennials rather than the ground, and it wouldn't cover anything very well because it has no chlorophyll so it lets the light through. -- Sue ]:(:) |
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MadCow expounded:
It covers other perennials rather than the ground, and it wouldn't cover anything very well because it has no chlorophyll so it lets the light through. I really should have taken a picture of it before I started to battle it - it was a woven mass of yellow with green sprouting through. Very odd and very determined... -- Ann, gardening in Zone 6a South of Boston, Massachusetts e-mail address is not checked ****************************** |
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