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Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ?
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writes Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? I didn't think anything did! Are you having problems with it? -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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In article , b.cumisky writes Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? I didn't think anything did! Are you having problems with it? Grandchildren, with a bowl of sugar! -- Please do not email me at All emails to that address are automatically deleted before opening. |
b.cumisky wrote in message ... Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? Thanks Dee Dee Hi Dee Dee, Honey Fungus, though not a pest, is a potential killer. That's how I lost mine many years ago. Spider |
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writes b.cumisky wrote in message ... Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? Thanks Dee Dee Honey Fungus, though not a pest, is a potential killer. That's how I lost mine many years ago. Are you sure it was honey fungus? It affects a variety of trees and shrubs, but I wouldn't have thought rhubarb was woody enough. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
"b.cumisky" wrote in message ... Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? Thanks Dee Dee Well something is eating adult leaves. The reaction I always seem to get is nothing eats rhubarb (except us humans) :-) This only happens to adult leaves and seems to happen during the day. Dee Dee |
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:37:27 GMT, "b.cumisky" wrote:
Well something is eating adult leaves. The reaction I always seem to get is nothing eats rhubarb (except us humans) :-) This only happens to adult leaves and seems to happen during the day. My rhubarb leaves get pretty threadbare too - but if it is happening during the day you should be able to catch the blighters at it... Geo |
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Kay wrote: In article , b.cumisky writes Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? I didn't think anything did! Are you having problems with it? Grandchildren, with a bowl of sugar! One way to cure that is to get them to try it raw, green and no sugar. I did such a thing on the saturday morning to impress my sister and I swear that every single meal I had until monday tasted of rhubarb but rhubarb that my tongue tasted after broken glass and sandpaper had been rubbed into it. Richard. |
Kay wrote in message ... In article , Spider writes b.cumisky wrote in message ... Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? Thanks Dee Dee Honey Fungus, though not a pest, is a potential killer. That's how I lost mine many years ago. Are you sure it was honey fungus? It affects a variety of trees and shrubs, but I wouldn't have thought rhubarb was woody enough. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" Hi Kay, I'm reasonably sure ...? Now you're making me wonder. Strawberries are supposed to be troubled by it, though, and they're not woody. Perhaps another urgler knows for sure? Spider |
In article , "Spider" writes: | | I'm reasonably sure ...? Now you're making me wonder. Strawberries are | supposed to be troubled by it, though, and they're not woody. Perhaps | another urgler knows for sure? I know for sure that it isn't half as infectious as is made out, but has been reported to kill some semi-woody plants as well as woody ones. Whether they were sensitive species, it was fluke, or it was really some other fungus is less clear. I have the same suspicion about coral spot. I have seen it on a great many trees and shrubs and it has restricted itself to dead twigs and branches. Now, it has been claimed to be a killer, but is that true? Nobody has EVER provided me with ANY evidence that the actual killing isn't done by some other organism (say, one of the fungi imperfecti, fireblight or whatever) and the coral spot has got the blame - just as woodlice do. I know from actual observation that coral spot can produce fruiting bodies within a few weeks of a branch dying, so it is not possible to tell except by a controlled experiment or some heavyweight tissue culture. Much the same is true of honey fungus. If it were the rampant killer that it is made out to be, none of our ancient woodlands would exist, and there would be large areas where little could be planted. Well, obviously, that ain't so. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
Look for caterpillars or small slugs on the underside of the leaves. I have found them at night with a flashlight or in the early am. Slugs will also chew the stalks. Gary Thanks Gary It could certainly be caterpillars. Do you have any suggestions on how to combat them ? Dee Dee |
In article , "b.cumisky" writes: | | Look for caterpillars or small slugs on the underside of the leaves. I | have | found them at night with a flashlight or in the early am. Slugs will also | chew the stalks. | | It could certainly be caterpillars. | Do you have any suggestions on how to combat them ? A kevlar bullet-proof vest, infrared goggles and an AK-47? If they can live on rhubarb, I can't see that much less will help. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
"b.cumisky" wrote in message ... Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? Slugs and snails chew holes in the leaves, especially the new leaves. If unchecked will certainly kill the plant. -- Regards, Alan. Preserve wildlife - Pickle a SQUIRREL to reply. |
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writes Kay wrote in message ... In article , Spider writes b.cumisky wrote in message ... Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? Thanks Dee Dee Honey Fungus, though not a pest, is a potential killer. That's how I lost mine many years ago. Are you sure it was honey fungus? It affects a variety of trees and shrubs, but I wouldn't have thought rhubarb was woody enough. -- I'm reasonably sure ...? Now you're making me wonder. Strawberries are supposed to be troubled by it, though, and they're not woody. Perhaps another urgler knows for sure? Just to make sure we're talkingabout the same thing - what I know as honey fungus is Armillaria mellea, pictured he http://www.nifg.org.uk/armillaria.htm which is one of our commonest fungi and lives on wood. However, one lives and learns, and a web search revealed: http://www.bspp.org.uk/icpp98/6/84.html which describes using strawberries as a test bed for Armillaria control, not, however, because Armillaria is a big pest of strawberries, but because they are, as you say, susceptible to it and pot grown strawberries are a convenient size for experiment. So, faced with that I did two further searches, on "Armillaria mellea" and rhubarb, and on "honey fungus" and rhubarb, and threw up just two references to honey fungus attacking rhubarb, for example the following from 'Wigan today' "Given a yearly dressing of manure, one crown of rhubarb should last 10 years before it needs replacing, although occasionally some plants do fall foul of diseases such as crown rot and, even more occasionally, honey fungus. The only solution to either problem is to dig up the rhubarb and burn it. Don't grow a new crown in the same site." -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
Kay wrote in message ... In article , Spider writes Kay wrote in message ... In article , Spider writes b.cumisky wrote in message ... Can someone please tell me what pests affect rhubarb ? Thanks Dee Dee Honey Fungus, though not a pest, is a potential killer. That's how I lost mine many years ago. Are you sure it was honey fungus? It affects a variety of trees and shrubs, but I wouldn't have thought rhubarb was woody enough. -- I'm reasonably sure ...? Now you're making me wonder. Strawberries are supposed to be troubled by it, though, and they're not woody. Perhaps another urgler knows for sure? Just to make sure we're talkingabout the same thing - what I know as honey fungus is Armillaria mellea, pictured he http://www.nifg.org.uk/armillaria.htm which is one of our commonest fungi and lives on wood. However, one lives and learns, and a web search revealed: http://www.bspp.org.uk/icpp98/6/84.html which describes using strawberries as a test bed for Armillaria control, not, however, because Armillaria is a big pest of strawberries, but because they are, as you say, susceptible to it and pot grown strawberries are a convenient size for experiment. So, faced with that I did two further searches, on "Armillaria mellea" and rhubarb, and on "honey fungus" and rhubarb, and threw up just two references to honey fungus attacking rhubarb, for example the following from 'Wigan today' "Given a yearly dressing of manure, one crown of rhubarb should last 10 years before it needs replacing, although occasionally some plants do fall foul of diseases such as crown rot and, even more occasionally, honey fungus. The only solution to either problem is to dig up the rhubarb and burn it. Don't grow a new crown in the same site." -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" Thanks Nick and Kay, That's most interesting. I'm fairly sure I have some form of Armillaria in my garden - on Sycamore stumps, for starters. The doomed rhubarb was near the site of a previous stump (probably Prunus sp.), but I saw no fruiting bodies. However, it and the ground reeked deeply of mushroom after I dug it up and there was a deep layer of white mycelium beneath the rhubarb. I saw no sign of 'bootlace' strands. Unfortunately, before I learned that a neighbour had Honey Fungus in their garden (identified by a tree surgeon), I accepted a shrub sucker from his garden. I am not unduly worried about Honey Fungus, because a different tree surgeon assured me that a) there were many more benign strains and b) that I grew so many trees and woody plants in my garden (he nearly got excited!) that I was fairly safe - in the way that woodland is fairly safe and/or copes with Armilllaria and other fungi. To pick up the OP's thread, I am seriously considering growing Rhubarb again (in a different part of the garden), so I'll be watching out for the slugs and snails mentioned by another urgler. Spider |
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