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Title: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: El Rabano on May 01, 2011, 23:37:02

I've read about this, has anyone tried it?

Results vs effort?

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: plainleaf on May 01, 2011, 23:46:27

it is pure BS no benefit at all

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: tonybloke on May 02, 2011, 10:06:06

milk is pretty toxic to most plants! try it and see, ' water' one of your favourite houseplants with diluted milk, see what happens.

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: slyfox-mal on May 02, 2011, 18:47:21

feeding milk is a complete nonsense however useing milk correctly for treating against powdery mildew is another matter i have used it the last couple of years as a foliar spray  by useing very low fat milk ie 1% fat milk diluted in water at 10 to 1 mix 1 part milk to ten parts water  seemed to be very good i did a control with marrows and pumpkins and the plant i didnt do the spray to got pm much worse than the plants i did use it on regards mal

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: pete JB on May 02, 2011, 20:07:21

Agree with Mal and the other guys. Complete rubbish. The same goes for beer. Save your beer and drink it instead !

Pete.

ps, I have tried the same method as Mal for the control of powdery mildew. It works !

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: El Rabano on May 02, 2011, 20:22:24

Thanks for the feedback guys.

As far as the Powdery Mildew cure; I'll try that this year as this good weather surly cannot last!

Thanks again,

Mike

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 04, 2011, 20:20:09

Drink the beer, or the milk (if you can face the stuff; I can't), then water the plants with the end product.

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: Sinbad7 on June 29, 2011, 23:26:19

Sounds a bit drastic that one Robert, BUT does it work????

Someone told me beer, which I was hoping to cheat with  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on July 02, 2011, 19:44:13

It's got lots of nitrogen so it'll certainly make them grow!

Title: Re: Milk Fed Pumpkins?
Post by: antipodes on July 25, 2011, 10:13:39

I am treating powdery mildew with diluted milk, so far it is not prgressing so it seems to work. A local told me that it also works in preventing various mildews in potatoes and tomatoes...