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["Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

What?! That can't be right ! 
I thought all of crazy-@ss Jerry Baker's (he calls himself America's Master
Gardener) recipes were based on:
1/3 cup Murphy's Oil Soap
1/3 cup Baby Shampoo
1/3 cup lemon-scented dishwashing detergent
a can of cola
a can of beer
a bottle of hot sauce
a cup of aged human urine
a cup of tobacco juice
a cup of Listerine mouthwash
all mixed together and put in your hose-end sprayer and sprayed all over
anything and everything that you might imagine that had any sort of bug or
fungal/bacterial pathogen that was maybe thinking about attacking.
Jerry Baker is a kook. I used to become physically ill - nauseous - when I'd
hear him on the radio.  He's so full of BS. 
As a matter of fact, my stomach hurts now, after typing that.  


LLP
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of mike engle
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:09 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] downy mildrew - "Giant book of garden solutions"



Growing grapes, and I noticed some downy mildew on some of my grapes. maybe
40% of my vines had at least one spot(Steuben and St. Pepin) and nearly all
my entire row of LaCrosse. (Joy of joy, I got some apple trees grafted and
I'm keeping them in a patio as they start, and my Cellini apple tree has a
few circular spots on two of the leaves.)

   I was wondering if anyone has ever tried the "magic mildew control tonic"
in Jerry Baker's "Giant Book of Garden Solutions"

4 tbsp of baking soda
2 tbsp of Murphy's Oil Soap
1 gal of warm water

curious to know if it is something that works decently, or if it is pure
bunk.


mike engle
Troy, NY - zone 5
                                          
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