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- From: "Nan Johnson" <nan AT olemiss.edu>
- To: "marketfarming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] soil fungus problem
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:00:28 -0600
Faced the prospect of adding commercial fungicides
to 36 raised beds here at my research medicinal plant garden (as well as adding
it to all the potting soil needed for over 300 pots for transplants and all the
germination flats), I am appealing to y'all for help:
We are infected with Sclerotium
rolfsii.
Is there any less toxic, and/or more biological
fungicide that works as a preventative soil amendment (as opposed to using once
plants are attacked)
Last summer, we tried beneficial nemotodes in all
the beds where we were already noting plant death due to Sclerotium rolfsii. For
whatever reasons, with repeated checkings through the summer, we could
find NO evidence of any colonization of these nemotodes, so the botanist in
charge is reluctant to go that route again.
There may be other non-beneficial fungi present,
but this is the only one we have positively identified. It has been a problem on
and off in the garden for years.
Though we buy new potting soil each year, the
botanist also figures that it will become contaminated just from air borne
spores, etc. so wants to treat that as well as all the outdoor garden
beds.
ANYTHING less toxic, even if still "chemical" is
welcome, as we are not certified organic and do not go by OMRI standards, but
nevertheless wish to lend as little support to Monsanto and its ilk as
possible!!!
thanks, nan in north
mississippi
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[Market-farming] soil fungus problem,
Nan Johnson, 01/13/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] soil fungus problem, Pat Jackowsky, 01/13/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] soil fungus problem,
OakCamp2, 01/13/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] soil fungus problem, David Tannen, 01/13/2005
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