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  • From: Allan Balliett <allan.balliett AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] organic control of downy mildew on basil
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:33:02 -0400

Bob - Do you have a good url for the Rutgers work?

Here's one from Cornell:

http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/NewsArticles/BasilDowny.html

I'm outside of Washington, DC. We came down with downy mildew basil
this week. (It never ceases to amaze me how immune to changes in crop
quality harvesters are! I had 3 bushels of YELLOW basil brought to the
distribution shelter yesterday morning...;)

I think someone mentioned here two years ago that they got through
downy mildew by simply cutting hard andthe new growth, which would
have had to have come back in better weather (lower humidity) was
fine. This seems likely, after reading the Cornell page, but I'm
wondering how folks here have worked with this affliction.

Yes, we received a cucumber down mildew warning from UofMD last week.
Apparently the same conditions apply to basil.

Anyone have any suggestions for preserving this tender flavorful leaf crop?

-Allan in WV

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM, <sunnfarm AT netscape.com> wrote:
> Summer 2010 at the Rutgers Research farm in Bridgeton, NJ. I saw something
> like 30 or 60 varieties of basil tested for DM. There is no good organic
> control. The products you mention were tested and shown only to supress DM
> not stop it. DM is transmitted from year to year on infected seed. The first
> seed source with disease came from Italy. DM gets inside the seed so we
> found no way to sanitize the seed without harming it. Rutgers University is
> doing a lot of work on DM in basil since we grow a lot of it in NJ. check
> their web site... Bob.
> Sunny Meadow Farm
> Bridgeton, NJ.
>
> --- bellapesto AT gmail.com wrote:
>
> From: Bella Farm <bellapesto AT gmail.com>
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [Market-farming] organic control of downy mildew on basil
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:47:08 -0500
>
>
> Hello! Looking for some tips from folks who have experience controlling
> downy mildew on basil. I in need of an OMRI approved fungicide this year...
> the two that I have found are Actinovate AG and OxiDate (the links take you
> to the websites of the companies that make them.) Does anyone have any
> experience with either of these two products, or have any other suggestions?
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> -Rachel Schattman
> --
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