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Post by barb on Jul 10, 2008 1:43:04 GMT -5
Hello everyone!
I am new to the group. I live in Montgomery, IN. I have gardened most of my life but have really gotten addicted to it in the past three years. I need Help! My English Ivy that I planted over fifteen years ago has brown spots. I have no clue what it is.
None of my other flowers or vegetable plants have them but my neighbor says her green pepper plants have brown spots on them. They are located about fifty feet from my English Ivy. This is the only neighbor that property is connected to ours. We live on a corner lot. We do not use roundup or similar products. The only product we have used is a product to kill slugs but we did not put it on the Ivy. Wow, I feel like I just gave everyone my whole gardening history. LOL Does anyone have any clue what the spots could be?
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Post by flowerpower on Jul 10, 2008 5:18:16 GMT -5
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 10, 2008 7:49:13 GMT -5
Hello and welcome. Montgomery, huh? We live in Paoli and go to Dinky's a lot. Small world. Anyway, about the ivy, with the weather we have had, there are a lot of fungal disease problems in the area. Ivy grows so thickly that air circulation can be a problem in a good year. Ivy is one of those plants that looks better if you try to rip it all out anyway every once in a while. I made the mistake of planting it years ago, and I am still trying to get rid of it. Rip out the affected parts, get rid of the foliage in the trash to reduce the fungal spores and it should be fine. Karen
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Post by barb on Jul 10, 2008 19:01:33 GMT -5
Thank you both for welcoming me. I have already learned so much in the short time I have been a member of HG.
It is defiantly a small world. It may be hard to believe but I have only been to Dinky's once since it opened up. It is the same way with all the Amish restaurants in our area. The only time I go is when friends from out of town come and want to go. However, I do shop at a few of the Amish Discount Stores. Although I prefer to grow most of my flowers from seeds, I do buy some flowers from Sue's greenhouse who is a very nice Amish lady.
I looked at the link and the Fungal leaf spots definitely looked familiar. So it looks like I will need to get busy and rip up the affected parts. Karen, you brought up another point that made me think. My ivy has never gotten out of control like I expected it to. I figured it would take over the whole hillside where I planted it but it didn't. It has just stayed in one area. It has grown up the trees but it did not grow as far on the hill that I wanted to. I just gave up on it expanding and planted other things. (Which to be honest I am not real happy with how it looks either.) I am wondering that the reason it never expanded more is because I never thinned it out. It is very thick. I will have to see what happens after I pull up the affected ivy.
Thank you both very much for your help.
Barb
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 11, 2008 9:34:48 GMT -5
Ivy grows best when you want it to die. If you ever get to this area please stop by-I am right on hwy 150 on the way to Paoli. I have lots of plants that I would love to share. Right now I am trying to find a home for some daylilies-they are nice colors, just have too many of them. I also have some seed pods you would be welcome to of a few different things. I mainly do perennials, but do allow a few self seeding annuals such as love in a mist. Right now honestly, it is an adventure just to try to find my flowers in the jungle of weeds. I have tried, but I am losing the weed war this year.
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Post by barb on Jul 11, 2008 12:13:57 GMT -5
I would really like to take you up on that offer at some point. This week I have not done much of anything. I have a horrible upper respiratory infection. I figure the weeds have taken over here too. i have not been out at all to do anything. I felt so bad yesterday that i had my daughter tie out our two inside dogs (they always go out when I garden) and I fell asleep. Left them out for two hours! I felt terrible about it. On my defense, I was sick and asleep. My teenage daughter forgot them too and she was awake and not sick. LOL. I am like you - I mainly plant perennials and self seeders. I do plant a bed of zinnias but they are from seeds I gathered the year before. Oh I almost forgot I do buy naustrium seeds every year. I wasn't sure about their seeds and I have never saved them. I did have a few volunteers this year though. I am a very frugal gardener. First it was because I chose to be but now it is out of necessity. I got my first day lily this year. I got it from freecycle. It is really pretty. I have noticed since I have joined a couple gardening groups that I have limited myself to what I do plant and I am eager to add a greater variety of flowers to my yard. I don't have allot to trade right now but I am hopes that it will change. I did give two neighbors some seeds from my zinnias and marigolds. You know it feels really good to be able to do that.
Barb
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 11, 2008 20:02:18 GMT -5
I have some pics posted on picasa if you want to check out the kind of stuff I have. Take a look and if you see something you like, you can get some starts. Here's the link- picasaweb.google.com/plantsnobin
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Post by barb on Jul 17, 2008 16:39:38 GMT -5
Your flowers are absolutely beautiful. I think I have flower envy. You can tell you put allot of loving care into your gardens. I would be honored to have a start from any of your flowers. I was blown away by the varieties of all the beautiful plants and their colors
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Post by plantsnobin on Jul 18, 2008 7:41:40 GMT -5
The great thing about posting pictures is that you can angle the shot to miss all the weeds! Believe me, right now you would not be impressed. Weeds everywhere. I am considering just taking a tractor in there are brush hogging. I am always very enthusiastic in the spring, less so when the heat of summer arrives. I plan my garden for peak bloom about the middle of May, then I don't really care what happens during summer. I just go back in about the last of August of tidy up so it will look nice again for the fall blooms, but this year the weeds have grown out of control.
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Post by barb on Jul 18, 2008 12:02:24 GMT -5
I know what you mean about the heat of summer. I have not been out during the day at all this week. I never thought I would say this but I am liking this daylight saving time change. I go out around 8:30 pm and work until I can no longer see the weeds around 9:30. It has not been a whole allot cooler but I can at least tolerate it. Talk about weeds! I planted scarlet flax from seed this year and I am beginning to wonder if there was grass seed in with them. It took over. The flowers grew but when I went to pull the weeds the flowers fell over. It was as if the weeds were holding them up. It has been almost a week and they are just now starting to stand on their own but no more blooms.
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