Rust on Hollyhocks

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Wherever I have lived I got rust on Hollyhocks.  I even bought rust
resistant seeds some time ago but to no avail.  I love them but they
look so ugly, help please?

 


WD 40 ? ;-)

Mike


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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

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 On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 05:35:12 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France


It goes with the breed I think. You'll never get rid of it totally but
my method is that (1) I grow hollyhocks as biennials (greenhouse/cold
frame for the first year and plant out at beginning of second); (2) I
make sure that at season end the area is thoroughtly cleared of dead
foliage; (3)  I dig up and dispose of th eplants at the end of the
year and don't grow hollyhocks in the same place in the garden; (4) I
start spraying early with a fungicide (I use Systhane Fungus Fighter)
and (5) once the plants have grown enough, I remove the lower leaves.

And like asters, I give things a rest every few years - nice to have a
change anyway.

Doesn't totally  cure the problem but at least it keeps it at bay and
I get a decent display from the plants.

Cheers
Jake
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Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.

www.rivendell.org.uk

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Try the Ws in the Oxford English dictionary: he did the original ones.
He was called in because, essentially, only northern European words
begin with W: the Greeks and Romans didn't have the letter. I've seen
his work.

But it always tickled me that one our regular beaches, over in Pembs,
was called Amroth.

 On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:25:29 +0100, Mike Lyle


The name "William" didn't exist until the Saxons "Saxonised" Guillaume
after 1066! Without the Norman conquest, we might still have boys
christened "Hengist" and "Yffi".

I once wrote a thesis on the similarities between Tolkien's Elvish and
Welsh. I was running late and had to submit the only copy - no time to
photocopy it. Some months later, the cover page was found in a
cupboard; the text has never since seen the light of day AFAIK. I
passed but wish I'd had a computer in those days rather than a clunky
old typewriter.

Cheers
Jake
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Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.

www.rivendell.org.uk