Culling or Roguing the Garden
It is always important to save seeds from the healthiest, hardiest and most trouble-free plants in the garden.
After seedlings are transplanted into the garden, frequently check them for weakness, deformity, disease, susceptibility to pest infestation or other signs inferiority. All plants showing these negative traits should be culled (removed) from the garden bed.
By removing these undesirable plants early in the growing season they will never mature to flower and so cannot pollinate other plants and pass their poorer traits onto the next generation of plants.
Rogue: A variation from the standard varietal type; also, to remove such undesirable plants (especially those infected with viruses) from the growing crop.
Roguing: The removal of diseased plants from a crop in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
Cornell On-Line Glossary of Technical Terms in Plant Pathology
Tip suggests these links for further study.
Issue No. 53 - September/October 1978
MotherEartNews.Com
by Greg Grant
Plant Answers
Texas A&M University System Cooperative Extension
Backyard Conservation
Natural Resources and Conservation Service
United States Depasrtment of Agriculture
Report on Plant Diseases Factsheet RPD No. 900
Issue: April 1999
Integrated Pest Management
College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Science
University of Illinoist Extension
by Don Janssen, Extension Educator
Extension in Lancaster County
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Home and Garden
Southern Idaho Entomology Programs
University of Idaho Cooperative Extension System
by Susan E. Webb, Associate Professor, Entomology and Nematology Department
and Freddie A. Johnson, D istrict Extension Director and Professor of Entomology
Factsheet No. ENY-476 (VH036)
University of Florida IFAS Extension
