mildews

So far this year, I've lost about 80% of my cherries, 50% of the strawberries, the plum and pear trees are sparsely populated and the need for copper to keep mildews at bay has been oppressive.

"With water comes life. All kinds of life." 2009

There were mildews, rusts, rots, cankers, blotches and blights to contend with as well.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

And this old building mildews and smells to high heaven every summer--plus it gets hotter than seven Hades within these old double-thick walls in the brutal NYC summers--and most people have to have air conditioners the heat is so insufferable.

Who Are You? #2 The Daily Growler 2006

If it were *really clever*, in a way not typical of most slime molds and mildews, maybe it would arrange itself in some amazing pattern as a sign of gratitude.

March 4th, 2006 asakiyume 2006

So, you can imagine that I'm cleaning off all kinds of stuff with the baking soda, including some kinds of living creatures like mildews and molds.

March 4th, 2006 asakiyume 2006

It mildews readily if left damp but will not be attacked by moths.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

It mildews readily if left damp but will not be attacked by moths.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

It mildews readily if left damp but will not be attacked by moths.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

It mildews readily if left damp but will not be attacked by moths.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the poor creature of earth.

King Lear 2004