Potato Diseases II: Try Peroxide????

As you may remember, I posted before that my bee-U-ti-ful potatoes seem to
be succumbing to one of those bacterial wilts (fusarium?
 verticillium?) ---- or maybe too much heat----- or too much soggy water
retention in the half-rotted leaves I'm using to hill them up with, ----or
God knows what.  I'm going to stop watering and fertilizing them, and hill
them up with dirt rather than half-finished leaf compost.

But here's another idea.  People do use diluted hydrogen peroxide to retard
algae growth in their water, fungus on their potting equipment, mold on
their sprouting seeds, etc.  Might one use H2O2 in the water, preventatively
perhaps, to prevent bacterial wilts?

I'm thinking of watering my as-yet-unwilted potato plants with H2O2 diluted
at, say, 1 oz (2 Tbs) H2O2 per gallon of water.

Has anybody tried anything like this?  Might it give some protection against
disease?

Any other suggestions on disease prevention?

Juli(Spudnik)anne
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