Flower Gardens
Milk As Fungicide
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» Cottage_Garden - Using Milk in the Garden
There have been a few reports over the past couple of years about using milk as a fungicide in the garden. Research started out on grapes and then included cucurbits (cucumbers, melons, etc.) and tomatoes.The dilution seems to run anywhere between one part milk to five parts water, up to one part milk to ten parts water. (Mixing it with too much milk can encourage sooty mold.)
Whole milk is apparently slightly more effective than skim milk. I have heard anecdotal reports that powdered milk works just fine, too.
Apply it preventively every seven to ten days, maybe every two weeks in hot dry weather.
Here is a brief Gardening Australia Factsheet about it.
As always, test it before you spray the whole plant!
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» Cottage_Garden - More on Milk and Mildew
More detail on the milk being used on organically grown wine grapes in Australia.Yet another recipe, this time for the metric users among us and using dry milk -- 15 grams DRY milk powder per litre of water.
Check it out at ScienceNews.
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