CULT: Damping Off and Herbs
- Subject: CULT: Damping Off and Herbs
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:33:03 EST
From: HIPSource@aol.com
In a message dated 2/15/00 12:38:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
croyer@fastrans.net writes:
<< I have used ChamomileTea for damping off and it work well. >>
Yeah, I've heard about this, too, but like I said, I've never had any trouble
with irises damping off and I don't have trouble with anything much damping
off since I started sowing the inside stuff in vermiculite. The other herb
I've heard mentioned in this regard is "horsetail" but they never give you a
binomial so you can be absolutly sure you are understanding what they are
talking about, anyway, I understand 'horsetail" to be Eqisetum, which is an
odd and endearing plant of great antiquity and one that you want to be
careful about introducing into the garden since it can be very hard to
control. A friend of mine got a stand going in optimum conditions and it
became a nightmare. She tells the story of finally having to get out there
with the yard man and dig deep holes to get to the roots, which they stroked
with undiluted Round-up. The really neat thing about Equisetum is that it
carries crystals of silicon in its tissues and is thus abrasive. It was used
to scour pots with in the old days. Silicon is mysterious stuff and one keeps
hearing about it being the panacea for many plant ills, but at least to this
non-scientist, it does not look like one is getting much practical
information about implementing the panacea.
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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