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Thanks for sharing that, Rob.  Misery loves company and I am glad I am 
not the only one who has failures.

Bev

Robert Walton wrote:
> > Ah, a sore subject.
>
> Oh, yes. Forgot to tell you. One year I decided that putting a wide ring of
> Vicks around my young fruit trees would keep the web worms from climbing up
> the trunk and eating all the leaves.
>
> I was gloating in my organic pest control knowledge that early summer. About
> mid-summer, I noticed that a little plum tree just turned brown overnight.
> Upon further investigation, I found that the Vicks ate the bark off and
> killed the tree.
>
> I lost about 5 fruit trees to that Vicks treatment even though I washed it
> off the other ones right away.
>
> Rob - Va
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