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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Find a Lady bug? Take it to the happy hunting grounds on the Consorts.
>

If only I could figure out how to get the 1000s of lady beetles in my bath
room & on the sides of the house out onto my plants.


>
> BTW, that is a black currant I've looked at for including in my yard.
> Please let us know how they do.
>


The Consorts that I put into the ground last year & tiny little pencil sized
starts are now multi-branched & setting profuse amounts of fruit already in
their second year. I read several places that Consort was bred to be immune
to pine blister rust, not that it really seems to be a problem around here.

~mIEKAL