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  • From: Miranda Smith <Miranda.Smith AT creativehomeowner.com>
  • To: 'Market Farming' <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: disinfecting Tomatoes stakes
  • Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:47:23 -0500


I fill up a big plastic garbage can with a 10 percent solution of laundry
bleach (9 parts water to 1 part bleach) and put in as many stakes as it will
hold--75 to 100. I leave them in the solution overnight and then, the next
day, turn them over so the other end gets disinfected. Again, I leave them
in the solution overnight.
I don't like using laundry bleach but know that it works. It is
possible that hydrogen peroxide would as well. I haven't been keeping up
with all that research, but someone else on the list might know. My
incidence of Septoria leaf spot disease went way down once I started doing
this.

Miranda Smith

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> From: Leigh
> Reply To: Market Farming
> Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2001 10:55 AM
> To: Market Farming
> Subject: [market-farming] disinfecting Tomatoes stakes
>
> disinfecting tomato stakes - I suspect that is a possible vector for
> some of the tomato diseases I've encountered over the past several
> years (as in, maybe a gift horse should be looked in the mouth, or at
> least given a full course of antibiotics). What is a technique for
> disinfecting 1000 stakes?
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