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chamomile spray and buttermilk
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Posted by tomtuxman z6bNY (My Page) on Wed, Jun 23, 04 at 15:40
| Has anyone ever used a spray of chamomile tea to fight powdery mildew? Apparently chamomile is a fungicide (?)
Also, several posters here cite a spray of milk and water -- somewhere I had heard of using diluted buttermilk -- anyone ever hear of this and for what? |
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RE: chamomile spray and buttermilk
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| Chamomile tea does have some fungicidal properties and is often recommend to control damping off in seedling trays. I'm not sure whethr buttermilk would work or not but I have used a 50/50 mixture of fat free milk and water for powdery mildew on many plants as well as controlling black spot on my roses. Others have reorted success with other dilutions but I've not seen that. |
RE: chamomile spray and buttermilk
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| You can make buttermilk for a recipe using a little vinegar or lemon juice in milk, maybe buttermilk would work better because it's more acidic (see vinegar for black spots thread). |
RE: chamomile spray and buttermilk
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| A 10% solution of whole milk in water has been tested scientifically in Brazil and in Australia and found to be good for controlling powdery mildew. It has not been adequate for black spot. No vinegar or 50/50 mix of fat-free milk and water has been tested scientifically and proven to be successful for any fungi on roses. If you're using either one, you're doing it entirely on the basis of anecdotal evidence. |
RE: chamomile spray and buttermilk
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| My grandfather sprayed his roses with a tea of nettles, yarrow and chamomile, and said that compost, seaweed and cowmanure-compost gave healtier roses than anything else. He had some really good roses ! |
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