Re: cinnamon as fungicide + baking soda recipe was
- Subject: Re: cinnamon as fungicide + baking soda recipe was
- From: Al Krismer a*@fuse.net
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 18:33:19 -0400
Hi Marge,
As a commercial grower I have used a product with cinnamon oil called
Cinnamite. I don't know if its available to the general public. It works
great against most insects and powdery mildew. Its has a low toxicity
level.
Neem based pesticides are great and seem to work against powdery mildew.
Neem is great against aphids and white fly and thrip.
Al Krismer
Cincinnati
Marge Talt wrote:
> 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.
>
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