Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: What to do for mildew?
- Subject: Re: [SG] Fw: Re: [SG] Fw: Re: [SG]What to do for mildew?
- From: C* P*
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:23:52 EDT
In a message dated 10/5/01 6:53:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
skaggs@AIAGRP.NET writes:
<<
> Well, I want to dilute this with water and spray it on the plants (vs.
dusting it on full-strength). I'm trying to kill mildew. So I'm looking
for the formula for a water solution. >>
It is my recollection on fungi and mildews that you cannot kill mildew once
begun on a plant. All you can do it cut the plant down to the ground and
hope that next year the garden conditions will not produce mildew.
Lately the phlox on the market are nearly all mildew resistant. Another much
touted procedure is to go through the clumps in the spring and cut out about
half the stalks. Air moving through the plants is supposed to help prevent
mildew.
If you have a plant that consistently mildews and you cannot abide the
mildew, get rid of the plant and replace with a resistant one. All
pulmonaria, except longifolia hybrids, mildew here and I pull them out
whenever I see one.They seed around so there are always some sneaking in
somewhere.
Phlox will be OK some years and not others. Most of my plants have been
replaced with resistant plants.
Roses are the other garden resident that need all kinds of medication. I do
nothing and if they lose leaves I cut them back to the ground. There is only
so much one gardener can do in a short season climate.
All of these plants return next spring, cutting back at this time of year
does no harm and if you have a longer season than we do, you will see some
new leaves.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
