Re: [compost_tea] very disapointing soil test

From: butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:35:01 -0800 (PST)
Take it back, years ago we tried to grow minature
roses in the greenhouse and could not win the powdery
mildew battle. Are you saying the coir based media
reduced powdery mildew?
--- Daniel Fury <danielfury_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If coir has natural compounds that prevent it from
> > decomposing by fungal activity would it work as a
> > ground powder to prevent powdery mildew? If not
> > coir,
> > is there another natural plant derivative? Just a
> > question, because I don't have a plant that has
> ever
> > been attacked by powdery mildew that I know of.
>
>
> In our greenhouse we have powdery mildew and we
> obviously use lots of coir.  Even when we first
> started using coir we had MORE mildew.
>
>
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