I just stopped by Lowes and Home Depot looking for a part for my broken garage door opener. As I typically do, I make my way into the garden section to see if there's anything new.

In Lowes, they still weren't selling citrus due to the Asian Citrus Psyllid quarantine. I then went to Home Depot (I couldn't find the garage door part), and they were selling quite a few citrus. I asked the sales guy if the quarantine was over and he said it was exept that the trees couldn't leave the state. Each tree had a tag on it from the California Department of Food and Agriculture with a website to find out more about the Citrus Psylid.

Phillip

Phillip,

Here is the link to the current USDA regulations. The state could have some of their own, but I am not aware of them. It would seem to me for it to be diffcult for Home Depot to meet these requirements to the letter. If the nursery selling the trees to Home Depot treated them, as perscribed for movement to quarantine areas, they would have some extended protection (depending on how long HD held them) when the end customer purchased them, but I don't think if that meets the letter of the law for movement to a non-quarantine area. Basically, any citrus, or related species in a quarantine area, must be treated as perscribled before it can be move to a non-quarantine area, which in California would be any other part of the state.

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_pest_info/citrus_greening/downloads/pdf_files/federalorder-10-1-08-san.pdf



Ned

They're all just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Time for a new game plan.

.....Alan.