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I use 1 gallon - 1 cup, of water, 2 tsp neem oil, 2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp cinnamon, 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar, 1/2 c of whey, and 4 drops of dawn dishsoap. I shake it up, spray it on the plant and soil, and the powdery mildew goes away. Works for blight too if you catch it early enough. No, it doesn't kill the plants.
I am so grateful for your video. I recently was diagnosed with lupus. I was told to stay out of the sun. Giving up gardening gave me depression. But your video has given me hope. I love my garden. Thank you.
idk if prices have much changed with the times, but i just bought 90 ten gallon grow bags for 80 dollars. considering how much more volume they have, i'd say thats a better price than those bags
@@neilmartin4315 Good question. The best time is early morning. That gives it time to work and the excess water can evaporate before the strong sun starts hitting the leaves. The reduces the chances of burning the leaves. Otherwise, I would spray two or three hours before dusk.
@@magdaelmougi4159 No. These bags are permeable so water flows right through them. It also allows air to easily reach the roots. This will increase growth and health considerably. 🙂
Tablespoon of baking soda with a little bit of soap. Knocks it out really good almost better than most chemicals. I use a omri horticultural soap which also has properties to kill powdery mildew which is more refined and has less chance of burning. For me it seems to work better than milk. Scenes to last longer. Oh yeah and that's per gallon of water. It also seems to have residual power. Powdery mildew came back but only on New growth that wasn't sprayed.
The thing I dont like is the plant was doing so well with so many beautiful leaves, the. You cut them all and it’s horrible. The stuff is everywhere! 😢
@@victoryfirst2878 It doesn't seem to matter what type of milk is used. The black spots could be a number of different issues. However, it's likely a fungus. I would try to keep the plant dry as possible, remove wilted flowers regularly and prune to open the plant up for more airflow. I would be interested to see if the milk spray would help in this case. Good luck and happy gardening.
I’ve been using 2 tablespoons of regular peroxide, a bit of neem oil, a tad bit of least expensive dish soap in a spray bottle… AWESOME.. I’m going to scale it up with a hose end adjustable sprayer.. I saw looking at the settings the only way I can do it is to buy 12% peroxide then add the neem and cheapest dish soap
My whole garden get maybe 7 hours of sunlight. I have squash really in the wrong place. Ive worked in nurseries and green houses where neem and other concoctions were used. I just mixed a small bottle of maybe 2 parts milk 5 parts bottled water. Im waiting a bit for the sun to go down. I will trim a bit, then apply the fresh milk solution. Thank you for the well done video. ❤
I’ve read that spraying when the sun is out is a good thing as it enhances the antibacterial properties of the milk mixture. I know that oily products can cause the leaves to wilt or burn or just die, so I’m probably going to just try skim milk during the early afternoon and see how it goes.
When i lived on farm growing wheat etc we buŕnt all the stubble every 5 years on average i don't know if it killed the fungus spores but it got hot when you burm 5 thousand acres it did kill a lot of pests but little fires might not hot enough
I collected two with my morning slug patrol and fed them to my chickens. Never seen them before in my life and ive been gardening seriously for over 20 years.
Skim or Whole and can POWDERED Milk be used? Also, would spraying the SOIL before an Outbreak, around the time when the disease normally attacks the plants, work at all or HARM the plant's roots in any way?
It’s the sour milk that actually fights off the mildew. And when you spray milk in the heat and sun it sours on the plant. What is happening is the microbes in the sour milk are fighting the microbes in the mildew.
Once the garlic has achieved a frozen state at 25 to 32°F that is about as cold as the garlic will get, once it’s frozen it will not get colder. So planting the garlic deeper does affect the garlic because it needs to use up its energy to push through Extra soil.
It’s still not a waste of money milks cheaper than a lot of the other stuff you buy or all the time it takes to mix concoctions with all the other ingredients
Use lambda- cyhalothrin insectide. It is a synthetic pyrethroid that contains two active ingredients that kills on contact as well as leaving a residual on the leaves to be consumed.
