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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Where is your climate?  Doesn't mean anything unless you say where
you are.  Plenty of snow on the ground and still cold.  Near zero at
night.

Ernest Plutko zone 2/3

---- Original Message ----
From: abhayner@gmail.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ash and Ash Borer
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:08:51 -0400

>I don't know how many trees you are talking about, but we don't have
>any
>problems with borers since we started using mothballs around the base
>of
>young trees. ALL young trees.
>in our climate, since there is a second brood mid summer, we replace
>moth
>balls around end of June.
>hope this helps.
>we use about 4-5 for young tree, close up against the trunk, can
>throw a bit
>of dirt over them, they still work.
>Amy
>NC
>
>On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Geoffrey Tolle
><Gtolle0709@wowway.com>wrote:
>
>> Folks:
>>
>>     This may not be the best group to ask this question but at
>least I know
>> that any answers that I do get will be thought-out.
>>
>>     1) Does anyone know if ash trees are a good coppicing crops?
>>
>>     2) Does anyone know if ash borers require a minimum trunk
>diameter for
>> effective survival?
>>
>>     I know that there are some insect pests that simply don't
>survive as
>> well in small diameter branches and trunks as they do in large
>diameter
>> ones. It occurred to me that, if this is the case with emerald ash
>borer and
>> if ash trees coppice well, then it might be possible to keep some
>ashes
>> alive by coppicing them on a regular schedule. Admittedly, it's a
>survival
>> tactic but it might help some of us keep some ashes alive until a
>more
>> thorough solution is developed.
>>
>>
>>                                        Thanks,
>>
>>                                        Geoffrey Tolle
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