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I am pretty sure I had a crappy veggie garden last year because of fungus.
question is, whet do I do about it?


-thanks
Rob

Use a fungicide, Einstein.


"longshot" wrote in message
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I am pretty sure I had a crappy veggie garden last year because of fungus.
question is, whet do I do about it?


-thanks
Rob

In article Wlc4e.138839$Ze3.31257@attbi_s51,
"longshot" wrote:

I am pretty sure I had a crappy veggie garden last year because of fungus.
question is, whet do I do about it?


-thanks
Rob

Clean up.

Use composted material that gets hot. EG Hot Manures otherwise aerobic
energy (Turn your piles) and leave to rest for a few years. Sounds
like a long time but once in this mode there is always new material.

Check PH

Purchase good seed and healthy plants.

Water Less from above.

Rotate your veggies about.

Give more sun and less shade.

Be aware that some sweet peppers obtain problems that are just about
impossible to eradicate. Local farmerŒs here gave up even as the price
went up.

Burn and poison rough on your environment and pocket book.

Perhaps just let lay fallow for a year.

Talk to neighbors about your concerns.

Lots of work...you got to love it!

Bill

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Apply some ground up corn. I'm trying some grits myself.

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"longshot" wrote in message news:Wlc4e.138839$Ze3.31257@attbi_s51...
I am pretty sure I had a crappy veggie garden last year because of fungus.
question is, whet do I do about it?


-thanks
Rob

...
Apply some ground up corn. I'm trying some grits myself.


you want me to eat these, instead of my fresh veggies?
:o)

"longshot" wrote:
you want me to eat these, instead of my fresh veggies?
:o)

LOL No, I meant try some ground up corn on the soil with the
plants with the fungus among us. I'm trying grits (white ground
up corn something or another). I noticed something about
banana peels and roses. Banana peels help with rose bushes,
but I noticed there are incidents of black spots that occur. So
I was looking for something to try against black spot. Black
spot might not be a fungus... I'm not getting too wound up at
the moment about it, but I noticed someone mentioned corn
gluten in another thread here or there. So I've got this bag of
grits I've used for ants in the past, and one of my tomato
plants succumed to some kind of fungus, I think it's way beyond
help now, but I'm trying grits anyways. If you wanted to find
corn gluten feel free, but I'm sticking with my grits at the
moment to see if I can get the same effect corn gluten provides.

I'm not sure what corn gluten really is. I was thinking ground
up corn might work. I've got some old corn stalks here and
there that I'm slowly breaking up and powdering into the soil
that seems to have fungus amongus. The rose bush out front
though is getting just banana peel and corn grits for right now
though. I'll know in a couple months. g

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"Jim Carlock" wrote:
Apply some ground up corn. I'm trying some grits myself.

"Jim Carlock" wrote in
up corn something or another). I noticed something about
banana peels and roses. Banana peels help with rose bushes,


How? I never heard that before.

"Leon Trollski" fandom at netguy dot net wrote:
Yeah, our rose bush grew to about 12 feet in height last summer
before we pruned it. I had ground up a banana peel in a blender
and started doing that about once every three months. I noticed
the black spot and was told that is normal. Some of the last peels
I messed with have been sitting in a bowl for awhile but I noticed
a mold growing on them. I don't know if it's a good thing or a
bad thing, that mold (green powdery stuff) so was thinking, well
if it's bad I'll just throw in some grits because corn gluten reportedly
helps control weeds and fungus.

Furthermore, the following page indicates that garlic is to use
against various bugs...
http://www.centralsan.org/education/ipm/resources.html
The list of bugs includes:
Mosquitoes, Ants, aphids, leafhoppers, thrips, whiteflies, etc

I don't know but I sure do like what I'm reading. Maybe some-
one else that has good success against whiteflies and aphids and
misquitoes might comment on the subject. I had a terrible time
with whiteflies last year.

One of the corn gluten link and black spot links:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...300313017.html

One person at the link indicates that edible cornmeal is the black
spot preventive measure, while corn gluten meal is a weed controller.

The "Jim Dandy" grits I'm trying seem to be ground white corn. So I'm
crossing my fingers.

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"Jim Carlock" wrote in
up corn something or another). I noticed something about
banana peels and roses. Banana peels help with rose bushes,


How? I never heard that before.

"Leon Trollski" fandom at netguy dot net wrote:
How? I never heard that before.

Oops I thought I pasted in what your wrote... this reads better.

"Jim Carlock" wrote:
Yeah, our rose bush grew to about 12 feet in height last summer
before we pruned it. I had ground up a banana peel in a blender
and started doing that about once every three months. I noticed
the black spot and was told that is normal. Some of the last peels
I messed with have been sitting in a bowl for awhile and I noticed
a mold growing on them. I don't know if it's a good thing or a
bad thing, that mold (green powdery stuff), so was thinking, well
if it's bad I'll just throw in some grits because corn gluten reportedly
helps control weeds and fungus...

Furthermore, the following page indicates that garlic is to use
against various bugs...
http://www.centralsan.org/education/ipm/resources.html
The list of bugs includes:
Mosquitoes, Ants, aphids, leafhoppers, thrips, whiteflies, etc

I don't know but I sure do like what I'm reading. Maybe some-
one else that has good success against whiteflies and aphids and
misquitoes might comment on the subject. I had a terrible time
with whiteflies last year.

One of the corn gluten link and black spot links:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...300313017.html

One person at the link indicates that edible cornmeal is the black
spot preventive measure, while corn gluten meal is a weed controller.

The "Jim Dandy" grits I'm trying seem to be ground white corn. So I'm
crossing my fingers.

As far as the banana peels helping with roses... just search google for:
"banana peel" roses

You'll find some stuff in the garden groups as well concerning the
the information.

Hope that helps.

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Jim Carlock
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Try solarization. Lots of hits on how-to using google. One example at
http://ag.arizona.edu/gardening/news/articles/12.8.html
Olin

"longshot" wrote in message
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I am pretty sure I had a crappy veggie garden last year because of fungus.
question is, whet do I do about it?

Yikes! Do you eat fungicide?


On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:48:21 GMT, "Cereus-vanloads....."
wrote:

Use a fungicide, Einstein.


"longshot" wrote in message
news:Wlc4e.138839$Ze3.31257@attbi_s51...
I am pretty sure I had a crappy veggie garden last year because of fungus.
question is, whet do I do about it?


-thanks
Rob

"Jim Carlock" wrote in message
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"Leon Trollski" fandom at netguy dot net wrote:
How? I never heard that before.

Oops I thought I pasted in what your wrote... this reads better.

"Jim Carlock" wrote:
Yeah, our rose bush grew to about 12 feet in height last summer
before we pruned it. I had ground up a banana peel in a blender
and started doing that about once every three months. I noticed
the black spot and was told that is normal. Some of the last peels
I messed with have been sitting in a bowl for awhile and I noticed
a mold growing on them. I don't know if it's a good thing or a
bad thing, that mold (green powdery stuff), so was thinking, well
if it's bad I'll just throw in some grits because corn gluten reportedly
helps control weeds and fungus...



I suppose banana's potassium is helpful, beyond that I am unsure if you mean
the blackspot is caused by the banana.

"Leon Trollski" wrote:
I suppose banana's potassium is helpful, beyond that I am unsure if you
mean the blackspot is caused by the banana.

I don't know. I have noticed though that mold and/or fungus does grow
on banana peels, and was thinking that it "might" be condusive to "black
spot" on roses. It's a long shot, the black spot occurs every year, even
before using banana peels for the roses. So I'm currently messing with
some grits, mixing some grits with the banana peels to see if the black
spot decreases/disappears. The rose roots do like the banana peels and
they grow very well when blended banana peels are placed around the
top soil.

Was looking for other opinions concerning the topic. Was hypothesizing
and hoping others would jump in and say something one way or the other.

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Jim Carlock
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"Jim Carlock" wrote:
"Leon Trollski" fandom at netguy dot net wrote:
How? I never heard that before.

Oops I thought I pasted in what your wrote... this reads better.

"Jim Carlock" wrote:
Yeah, our rose bush grew to about 12 feet in height last summer
before we pruned it. I had ground up a banana peel in a blender
and started doing that about once every three months. I noticed
the black spot and was told that is normal. Some of the last peels
I messed with have been sitting in a bowl for awhile and I noticed
a mold growing on them. I don't know if it's a good thing or a
bad thing, that mold (green powdery stuff), so was thinking, well
if it's bad I'll just throw in some grits because corn gluten reportedly
helps control weeds and fungus...

"Jim Carlock" wrote in message
. ..
"Leon Trollski" wrote:
I suppose banana's potassium is helpful, beyond that I am unsure if you
mean the blackspot is caused by the banana.

I don't know. I have noticed though that mold and/or fungus does grow
on banana peels, and was thinking that it "might" be condusive to "black
spot" on roses. It's a long shot, the black spot occurs every year, even
before using banana peels for the roses. So I'm currently messing with
some grits, mixing some grits with the banana peels to see if the black
spot decreases/disappears. The rose roots do like the banana peels and
they grow very well when blended banana peels are placed around the
top soil.

Was looking for other opinions concerning the topic. Was hypothesizing
and hoping others would jump in and say something one way or the other.

I think blackspot is prevalent in moist outdoor conditions. Make sure you
don't water the foliage, don't crowd with other plants, and consider an
antifungal powder now and again on affected areas. Best time to apply is on
early morning dew.