Re: cinnamon as fungicide + baking soda recipe was: Rosemary Problem/ successful cuttings
- Subject: Re: cinnamon as fungicide + baking soda recipe was: Rosemary Problem/ successful cuttings
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 01:35:13 -0400
Glad your rosemary cuttings took...congrats!
Spice grade cinnamon is used to ward off fungal diseases on orchids
and for seed pots, plus have read it works on other plants. Just
sprinkle it on the plant - probably works better if the foliage is
wet. Or, if there are cracks or odd spots involved, you can make a
slurry with water and paint it on with a brush.
The baking soda recipe was tested at Purdue for blackspot on roses
and found to be effective. For culinary herbs, I'd use cooking oil
instead of hort. oil...someone who couldn't find hort. oil used olive
oil and said it worked a treat....
To 1 gallon of water, add
3 tablespoons of baking soda,
1 teaspoon of horticultural oil
1 teaspoon of dishsoap (as in liquid, like Joy)
Apply every week to 10 days by spraying ... remove infected
leaves. Also, spray the ground around the plant.
I've used this on my Phlox for powdery mildew - works great. You
need to remove leaves that have already turned yellow and are full of
it; they will just drop off anyway.
----------
> From: Theresa- yahoo <tchessie@yahoo.com>
>
> HI Marge-
>
> I'd love to know you cinnamon/baking soda and oil recipe if you
have time to
> dig it up.
>
> On a positive note- the rosemary cutting I took last year did
success- 50%
> at least so I have three new plants of a very tasty rosemary. They
are
> growing well outside. The cutting that were outside the whole
time- even
> before they rooted- were the most successful.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
