From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!ritcv!mmr
Newsgroups: net.garden
Title: reposting: smut: as in disease of corn
Article-I.D.: ritcv.318
Posted: Wed Apr 20 09:15:33 1983
Received: Fri Apr 22 08:39:27 1983


	Does anyone out there know how to get rid of, and/or prevent,
smut on corn?  Last year I planted sweet corn, and I lost some of it
to smut.  I pulled all the stalks affected and permanently disposed of 
them.  I intend to put the corn in a different garden this year, as I 
understand that the spores winter over in the soil.  Is there any fungicide 
that is effective? Also do the spores live more than 1 year in the soil?
(there are only so many places I can rotate the corn into)

	Please don't tell me that smut is considered a delicacy in
Mexico, I think it is the most disgusting looking stuff (somewhere on
a par with slugs, or maybe worse).

			Margaret Reek
			Rochester Institute of Technology
			ucbvax!allegra!rochester!ritcv!mmr