earth-friendly algae killer? - using milk in garden
 

"Mike Stevenson" wrote in
:

Ahhh. Like I said I had read this. Never tried it. Good thing too it
seems. This was a tip offered by 2 "organic" gardening sites I came
across awhile back. It was offered as a tip for someone having trouble
with fungal growth in her garden, becuase of eccessively wet weather.
They had diluted it very heavily. I believe it was like 1 tablespoon
per quart of water.

I tried using milk on my tomatoes (on what I inexpertly guess was
verticulium or fusarium). I think the advice was rinse the empty carton
with water and use the rinse water. That seemed to clear the problem up
(brown or yellowing spotting of leaves, don't quite remember). [I'm fairly
certain I found the information on google, if you are interested in looking
for it.]

Make sure you dilute the milk very well (unlike vinegar hehe). There was
one scraggly tomato plant (mountain something cultivar) that I figured I'd
give the whole hog treatment, so I dumped some undiluted whole milk (with
soggy cereal to boot) on it. The next day it was covered with ants and/or
slug slime.

-- Salty