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["Bob Kelly" <bkelly66@bellsouth.net>]

Lucky, did you forget the bourbon??  LOL

Bob Kelly
Aberdeen, MS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] downy mildrew - "Giant book of garden solutions"


> 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-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [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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