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17 May 2007, 9:34 pm / Other
Remember Emily Littella from Saturday Night Live? If it's not one thing, it's another!!
I can't believe the stuff I have to learn. Today's lesson, boys and girls, is about what happens when Red Cedar trees and apple trees don't play nice together. They make a disease called "Cedar Apple Rust." I think it's REALLY bad for apple trees. I just learned that it shouldn't kill the cedars, though we can treat it with a fungicide.
For the love of Mike! I have 50 cedars in just one area of my backyard!
Another solution--get rid of the cedar or the apples. GET REAL--this area is ****covered**** with cedars. And there is a massive apple orchard less than a mile from here.
People think nasty things about NJ, but the reality is that other than that northeast corner that borders NYC, this is one RURAL state. So here I am learning about identifying and treating Cedar Apple Rust. I'm adding this to my "NJ is rural resume" of: there was an FFA at my high school, there was a fly tying club at my high school, my hometown has a livestock auction every Tuesday (still!), and I learned to swim in a river--there was no "town pool".
We've got horse farms all over the place here--1 county south of where I grew up, which still has major produce, dairy, and sod farms. Seriously.
So, in the middle of coping with massive amounts of work issues today, I got to talk to two tree companies and surf a whole lotta web pages to learn today's lesson: Cedar Apple Rust.
I can't wait for tomorrow. 
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