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  • From: "Alan Whitaker" <awhitaker AT greenlynk.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Winter Squash Harvest
  • Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:14:16 -0500

Title: Re: [Market-farming] Winter Squash Harvest
Allen,  I mix my own bordeaux using hydrated lime and copper sulfate.  The H2O2 I'm using is the pints that are around 50 cents each at the local drug store.  They are a 3% peroxide and I mix it 10:1.  I've found it to be cheaper than the concentrated stuff.  I'm spraying with a high pressure backpack sprayer at a very fine mist.  This is the first year I've made good tomatoes since moving down here.  My plants are also starting to put out again.  I hope to get another crop off of 'em before our first frost in late Nov.(I hope)
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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Winter Squash Harvest

I used a bordeoux mix this year and alternated spraying with dilute H2O2.  We have terrible disease pressure down here in the deep South.  This spray regimen worked well this year.

Alan - was that a botle bordeux, or do you make your own? Where do you buy your H202 and at what rate do you dilute it? I've been using OXINATE, which, essentially, is the same thing, BUT, if I remember correctly, It costs about $150 per gallon. I have been very surprised, however, to see how much growth increases on senstitive brassicas , like pac choi, when they are treated with OXIDATE BEFORE an outbreak of fungus is seen. This, of course, is playing hell with my desire to be a flat out biological farmer, but this fungus thing has been so bad for the past two seasons... -Allan


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