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Re: Copper Culture-Biodynamic farming

I've found silica as effective as copper sulphate against late blight  
on potatoes so long as I spray early enough - if I wait for a Smith  
period  then its has to be the copper

kathryn




On 20 Apr 2008, at 01:58, Miranda Smith wrote:

> Get out your shovel.
>
> I admit that I never buried the cow horns--I bought some that  
> someone else
> had buried. But yes, it worked.
>
> Silica works, too. Spray it early in the season and it will enhance
> growth--that one has a good "scientific" basis, of course. The silica
> reflects light, increasing it--not a good technique for Florida but  
> great in
> the north.
>
> Miranda
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