Re: roses--blackspot

CathyL Sorry to be so long in answering this question...had some
vacation for Easter and then missed work last night because my little
boy has a concussion :-( Anyway...no I've never noticed a sour milk
smell after doing this, but it does make the leaves of the plant a
little cloudy white for a while (waiting a few days to spray them off
with a hose seems to rinse them and remove this) but I prefer this to
the blackspot so I live with it...



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Thu 04/17, cathy carpenter < cathyc@rnet.com > wrote:
From: cathy carpenter [mailto: cathyc@rnet.com]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:51:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [CHAT]roses--blackspot

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