I am looking for volunteers who want to help me with a natural blight cure/prevention!
Ideally you should not have blight yet, but I would also like a couple of volunteers who have early blight.
PLease pm me if you are interested.
Unfortunately I chopped the tops off mine, so I cannot experiment!
Thanks,
Sue
Can't we make it common knowledge? the reason I ask I just noticed a bit on my maincrop.
Well, it's just that a friend sent me what she calls natures cure, she said it worked on hers.
Its making a strong decoction of horsetails (Many of us have them on the allotment), and spraying on the leaves etc.
I didn't want everyone trying this and then moaning at me if it didn't work!!
So, please try at your own risk, and I would be very pleased if you could give me some feedback on whether it worked or not, so I can try it on mine next year.
I am not sure how often you will need to spray, and I would have thought that the rain would affect it too, and you will need to spray more often. Also I am not sure on the strengths of the liquid.
But give it a go, and good luck to anyone who tries it. Please report back your findings.
Sue
Sorry I can't help.............no Horse/Mares tail
Horse/Mares Tail is a well known by organic gardeners as a fungicide. If anyone wishes to try it, the recipe is 3/4 ounces of dried horsetail in 2 pints of rainwater. Stand for 24 hours, then make up to 1 gallon with rainwater.
I didn`t find it very successful, and prefer to put my trust in Dithane 945, which I know to work.
Thanks Kepouros,
Can you spray with Dithane after the blight has struck?
If the horsetails work, and I would be interested in the results for anyone that tries it.
It is natural and in abundance at our allotments!
Thanks,
Sue
Yes, Sue Steve, you can. That`s how the commercial growers keep their plants going after blight has struck - they simply can`t afford to cut the haulm down immediately. You need to combine the spraying with very regular removal of all infected leaves as they appear, and cut down any stems that suddenly show dark blotches on them.
Have you read my posting under Life After Blight on the Edible Plants Board 2 days ago?
Thanks very much Kepouros :)
Quote from: Tee Gee on July 13, 2007, 16:43:26
Sorry I can't help.............no Horse/Mares tail
Wish I could say the same - how did you manage that TG?