RE: roses--blackspot

I've used both the baking soda and the milk remedies, and in fact now I
regularly dump the rinse water from the milk jugs onto my problem child in
the front garden.  I have never noticed any sour milk smell at all.  I'd be
interested in another response from someone who's spraying a large number of
plants, though!

Libby
Maryland zone 6


-----Original Message-----
From: Pamela J. Evans
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: 4/17/2003 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT]roses--blackspot

I'd like to know that too - gets pretty warm here real fast. I have to
get up at dawn to spray in the summer to finish before it hits 85
degrees.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:51:08 -0500

>Is there a noticeable sour milk odor?
>Cathy
>
>On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 04:34 AM, Melody wrote:
>
>> Pam: Last year a couple of the folks on the old list gave me an
organic
>> solution for blackspot that really did seem to help...MILK! I am
going
>> to be resuming my milk spraying program here shortly, as soon as I am
>> done pruning all my roses. You dilute the milk with water in your
>> sprayer and spray the entire plant, including underneath the leaves,
as
>> well as the ground all around the rose bush. I used about a 1/4 
>> strength
>> dilution (1 part milk to 3 parts water)...doesn't matter what kind of
>> milk (skim, 2%, whole). Don't know why it worked, it just seemed to
do
>> the trick where commercial sprays didn't seem to help much.
>>
>> Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>>
>> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
>> --Albert Einstein
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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