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comfrey tea - powderymildew?

 
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QUESTION:  if I make comfrey tea with leaves already powdered w/powder mildew, am I spreading the mildew, or would drowning the leaves to steep a couple of weeks resolve the problem?  
thanks in advance for advice from anyone who's tried this...

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Not sure, but it may breed mildew eating microbes. Horsetail tea is very effective for me in preventing and mitigating mildew. Either make just like comfrey tea, or steep in hot water for 30min, and dilute 4:1-20:1

This is all just my opinion based on a flawed memory

 
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Laura, nice to see you back ...

I am assuming that the compost tea is used on the garden?  And yes, I feel that you might spread the problem.

Powdery mildew is cased by to much moisture and is easy to fix:

https://permies.com/t/93537/toxic-Fungicide

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Thanks all for the replies, and thanks Anne for the welcome back  (I've been too busy!  need to update my bio - the pond is in, an off-grid cabin is in, too!  And the place is STILL available to share!!! https://hewittfarmspics.smugmug.com/Projects/The-CABIN)  

ALSO thanks for the SIMPLE recipe, I DO have these ingredients on hand ... I'll give it a try.    

A really good treatment for powdery mildew is: 1 gal water, 1 T dish soap, 1 T baking soda.
  I put it in a spray bottle to make applying it easy.
  Some recipes call for adding oil. I have never found a need for the oil.  


NOW, HOW do I properly dispose of the plants I cut down?  NOT going into the compost pile, so WHERE?  Can I burn, or will that spread fungus, too?  In black plastic bags?  What a horrible single use of horrible plastic!  Are there better options?

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Laura Emil wrote: NOW, HOW do I properly dispose of the plants I cut down?  NOT going into the compost pile, so WHERE?  Can I burn, or will that spread fungus, too?  In black plastic bags?  What a horrible single use of horrible plastic!  Are there better options?



After I used that recipe I did not need to cut down any plants.

I could be wrong though I feel powdery mildew is okay for a hot compost pile.

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Composting any diseased plant matter will breed more things that eat the disease organism. Cold compost has a better effect in doing so than hot compost, as the former really is a little microcosm for evolution in more analogous conditions to the garden than a hot pile. Composting diseased plants a good long term way to mitigate the problem, which is the best we can do with ubiquitous powdery mildew.

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