Controlling Powdery Mildew on Plants

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Baking soda makes a very inexpensive control for the powdery mildew that gets on plants. The baking soda fungicide is effective as a preventative, offering only minimal benefits after your plants have become infected. Spraying weekly on your susceptible plants during humid or damp weather can reduce the incidence of powdery mildew in your garden.

Here is how to what to use make this treatment up:

1 tablespoon of baking soda
½ teaspoon of liquid soap
1 gallon of water

Do not store unused mixture.

While this has been known to be very effective, it can also burn the leaves of some plants. It is recommended that you water your infected plants well a couple of days before applying this mixture, and do not apply it in full sun. it is best to test a small area of the plant first.

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This is a problem that I have never had but that could be simply because I clean my plants leaves with a damp cloth every two weeks or so. The reason for doing this is to remove all of the dust etc from the leaves.

I also mist my plants a couple of times a week. I dont know that doing these things prevents the powdery mold or not, but as I said, this is something I have never had to deal with.

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I have never really done anything to my plants, but keep them watered, but still have not had this problem. thought maybe others have, and might need this information.

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I've never really had to deal with that problem either but I know people who have. I will pass this information on. They will be grateful.

Speaking of plants though, have you guys had any damaged from this past winter? This winter was a bad one. We had plenty of wind, ice and snow.

Plants can become damaged from the salt used on the roadways to melt the snow and ice. Trees limbs broken from the weight of the ice and snow.

Some people's landscaping is just a mess from old man winter.

Plants can be healed though.

Small limbs hanging from ornamental trees or shrubs such as lilacs may heal if you wrap each limb loosely in burlap so that it's touching the spot from which it tore, says Anne Flannery, a Chicago-area horticulturist and landscape designer. (You'll have to leave the wrapping in place until fall.)

Even if you've already had plenty of rain, give salt affected areas several good soakings with a hose: The soil needs extra water to dilute the salt. If the brown parts haven't greened up by summer, cut them off.

So don't go ripping anything out yet. Give it a chance to heal!