Recent rains brought the garden to life with all its chaos and glory. We welcome a degree of chaos when it comes to gardening. Nature does her thing, and we reap the benefits. Here’s some inspiration for your March garden madness.
Spring equinox is Thursday, March 20th, 2025. Get out there and enjoy your March garden madness. Next up: summer!
Thanks for your feedback – will expect nature to take its course this year and relax.
One thing I have come across recently was using EM-1 as a preventive foliar spray to prevent fungal issues.
EM-1 is great for a lot of things. At my community garden they used it to keep the compost “fragrance” down to a minimum. Worked well. Let us know how it goes.
Oh ok…well that saves me a lot of time! Thank you for trying it and sharing your results! That lady seems very nice but whether she uses SNT or not, she doesn’t have the climate for PM like coastal-non-Paso-Robles people do. Have you tried diluted hydrogen peroxide applications for PM? That’s another one I’ve been reading about…
Also, have you continued with your foliar sprays of the compost tea to avoid PM/fungal issues on tomatoes?
Thanks 😊
I haven’t tried Hydrogen peroxide. It’s just not something I want to spray on my crops. But I did experiment with bamboo vinegar for fungal infestations and didn’t find it helpful (and confirmed this with a friend who also tried it at higher concentrations without success). In the end, I basically just remove affected leaves and let nature take its course.
Speaking of stinging nettles – did you ever try the stinging nettle tea fertilizer/foliage spray that nice tomato lady from Willow Farms in Paso Robles you had on your podcast told you about?
We have used stinging nettle tea to try stopping powdery mildew and blight and, while I recall that it did slow down powedery mildew, I don’t remember seeing enough success (eliminating it) to try again. But I suppose a good scientific approach would be to test it for several years and record the results. I’ll have to put that on the To-Do List.