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my yard was covered with Bermuda grass. I laid down large pieces of cardboard over the weeds and put manure and compost on top of the cardboard. I planted a veg garden on top digging holes down through the cardboard where I planted seeds. Had some bermuda grass come up through the cardboard, but not a lot. The next year put another layer of cardboard, manure and compost and planted another garden got hardly any bermuda grass. Now I just put new layers of compost and manure each year, no cardboard and have hardly any weed issues.
Hi Kevin, you just confirmed my suspicion the whole time since I came across your channel during the pandemic. As a pure Filipino from Cebu, I am immensely proud of all your achievements. I love all your videos. You're one of my inspirations in planning to start my own backyard garden once I'm able to retire someday. More power to you!
the interesting about hydrogen peroxide is that it is no longer advised to pour it into wounds for the EXACT reason as this. It kills good bacteria that actually help the healing process (the bacteria depend on you to live, so it is their incentive to help you survive). The only time to do this is very specific situations, like stepping on a rusty nail that could have the anaerobic bacteria tetanus.
-Well don't go cray cray with it. Use some judgement. I was turned on to the different applications during the covid times. Which I just got, mother fucker. I was so dismayed. At any rate, Epic Gardeners, I totally concur with your evaluation. Also, if you were, let's just sayin, to get a cat scratch, clean it with hydrogen peroxide or soap and water. Thanks so much all you excellent and still learning Epic Gardeners.Obviously, it will not cure tetanus.
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I had horrible powdery mildew problems in my front yard. It seemed like the problem increased each year. By 2022, it was really bad. I sprayed with a hydrogen peroxide mixture. It would knock the problem back. I would respray, and it would knock the problem back for a short time. However, this year.....rhe problem is all but completely gone.
The first time I used HP was when I grew some Frangipanis from seed. I sprouted them indoors and then they got the dampening off issue, so I wrote to a grower in Thailand and he suggested the HP treatment, which worked really well. I think it’s good to use on a specific problem but not as a cure all for everything in the garden. I use methylated spirits to clean my secateurs etc. I do recommend to people to use HP to kill fungus gnats for indoor plants however, but an even better way of avoiding fungus gnats is to use a bark free potting mix for indoor plants, such as a coir based potting soil, as the gnats like bark. Works for me 😊
As you said, hydrogen peroxide helps root rot. But you said that root rot can be fixed by watering less, the problem with this is if you’re doing hydroponics, you’re not watering your crops in the same way that you would with soil. There is no soil in hydroponics. The roots grow directly in water, so you cant just water less, This is intentional. Using h202 adds oxygen to the solution. Thus allowing us to not use soil. I’d love a video about hydroponics. It’s how I garden currently because I don’t have a backyard yet.
Part of me feels that we might need more research on fungus gnats. I say this because from personal experience and observation (with only 3 years of gardening) that fungus gnats might be a solution to gardening than a problem. Think flies detecting gas from rotten food so they feed and breed to help eliminate the stench and spoiled content. I've had a tray of plants die because of fungus gnats during my 1st year of gardening. Placed the tray by the window with an opening of about .25 inches and there's screen window as well. Eventually, plants started growing by the numbers. One morning, I noticed a great number of fungus gnats by the window and on the plants. I started placing sticky traps and saw hundreds of stuck/dead gnats but they just kept coming until one day plants on the tray started dying and soon had to toss the tray. Months later, I started growing mango and avocado plants in my backyard. Didn't take long before fungus gnats started to appear on the plant and soil. I thought it was game over and decided to quit on these plants. A month goes by and these fruit plants continue to thrive despite seeing fungus gnats. A year has passed and these plants are still thriving, some are rapidly growing nicely with no site of fungus gnats. I no longer see fungus gnats as a threat as I continue to see on my other plants and herbs but all are thriving nice and healthy. So I wonder if fungus gnats detect fungus gases from infected plants and do their work feeding and breeding on fungus. But sometimes the fungus has grown so rapidly that the gnats couldn't keep up thus killing the plant but we happen to see the gnats as the threat because of their presence. Just my theory.
I did a germination experiment this spring with large numbers of (over 160) hard-to-germinate pepper seeds. Soaking in water, tea, 1% Hydrogen Peroxide, sanding the seeds, and trimming the seeds, plus a control. I did not find a stastistically meaningful advantage for any of the preparation methods in terms of germination speed or rate, and hydrogen peroxide was worse than the control in rate. Last year I had tried soaking pepper seeds in hydrogen peroxide for different amounts of time at 1% or 3% concentration, and found that soaking very long had very negative consequences. So thank you for bringing some of the hype about hydrogen peroxide to the foreground. There may be constructive uses for it, but they are hard to pin down and they are most likely to be found with subtle and carefully chosen uses.
Wait, what? Why is Kevin throwing Eric under the bus? What did Eric ever do to him? He seems like such a cool guy, and not a bad looker if I may say so.
Eric is responsible for everything that goes wrong in the Epic Garden. I would be annoyed too if some anti-green thumbed guy was destroying what was otherwise perfect.
It would be nice that if you're referencing a research paper in your video, to provide a link to it in the description. There's a big difference between 1:60 where the 1-part is already diluted 3% home-use peroxide, vs the 1.6% you'd get if it was talking about the ratio of pure peroxide to water. Personally, I've switched most of my sanitization needs over to hypochlorous acid (HOCl) because it's basically free to make, and so much safer than H2O2 (and 1000x more effective at killing bacteria/fungi/viruses than bleach). I'll have to try a dilute mixture once my squash start showing signs of powdery mildew.
I grow zinnias as rabbit food and every year about this time they get crazy powdery mildew. I'm going to try the peroxide 1x a week to see if we can get his food back healthy. Once it has mildew he goes back to store bought. He's a food snob and will refuse to eat for a full day waiting on the fresh food.
@@lemonyskunkketts7781Domestic rabbits actually have a very sensitive digestive tract, and while hay is a form of grass, it’s not just some run-of-the-mill lawn grass. It has a specific amount of protein and fiber that keeps rabbits from getting digestive stasis. OP is a very good pet parent for growing for their bunbun and spoiling your beloved pet is a privilege, no need to shame them for it.
@@mahaasim241 then atleast grow a second food...Alfalfa? When the animals get spoiled, they wont eat anything else if you run out of their top pick. I feed my animals their secondary choice as their overall food and give them their top pick less often.
I've used hydrogen peroxide and water for speeding up some seed germination before. It seemed to work well for me. I was impressed. it cut down the time by only a couple's days.
I was thinking this might be a good application, where the seeds needed scarification or to otherwise break through a membrane on the outer coating. Which seeds did you use it on? I have such a short season, and my solanums take FOREVER to germinate.
Not our mix ratio.. We very rarely do it, but... We use it for 2 things. Powdery Mildew, & SC potato gnats. (The gnats come in, at stores, inside of nonhomogonized bags of soil and compost, then spread out from there and from people using them at their homes.) Those gnats can not survive our winters, but thrive strongly in summer. Our mix, Per gallon..1 part Peroxide, 3 drops Dawn dishsoap, 1 tsp baking soda, 6 parts water. We also add 1/2tsp neem powder, and 1/2tsp cinnamon, and 1tsp laurel leaf powder, per gallon, since we are spraying anyway. That keeps ants, giant Gates grasshoppers, and several other nasty pests away. We do NOT spray it on blossoms or fruits/vegetables. Only on the plants and the ground under and around the plants. So, there are probably 50 to 80 people in our fields with hand sprayers, when we actually have to spray this. This works for both problems, and it works very well. We re-add positive bacterias and other needed things back to the soil after we do it though. Also by hand and also costly. So, the labor and time is def a consideration if your going to do it. We buy peroxide in a tank truck, the neem leaf we harvest ourselves from a property way down south, the bay leaf aka Laurel leaf comes from a fella in Cali, and the cinnamon we buy in bulk from Mexico. (Low grade low cost cinnamon Not the cinnamon we eat. We use it for dusting) Anyway, those gnats are far more destructive to plants than the peroxide is to the soil. Especially for root vegetables, tomatoes, and beans. JS. 🤔 But... we also spray our peppers with asprin water, and we add zinc to our canning of anything green. We also use a waaay OLD school, (ancient Egypt stuff), homemade lye soap water to get rid of weevils and other destructive pests too. Yes, starting with hard wood ash and rain water lye, type of old. So what do we know. 👀👀 We actially know some stuff. 😉
"We re-add positive bacterias and other needed things back to the soil after we do it though. Also by hand and also costly" what exactly do you re-add after spraying with that mix?
@@deafosho We have 2 long established, 6 generations, food forests. We do 40% harvesting in them, but we monitor them closely. Both have established mushrooms, that were scattered out there 6 generations back. We do about a 50% harvest on those. We also keep around 6 tons of natural compost at both places. Cow manure, cut grasses, our own oat straw, wood mulch from the property, old animal bedding, some green cutting from the fields, plus, we grow clover on the compost heaps, On the rare occassions that we have to use that treatment, we pull about 4 inches of the food forest surface back and take about 6 inches of that natural forest compost out. Then mix it with out man made natural compost. We put that mix in to the planted field dirt by hand. Removing this wild compost means we also have to add our manmade nqatural compost to the food forest floor, and push the 4" surface back on top. Last time it took about 3 tons away from 6 ton compost heaps. Because we grow clover and fungus/mushroom infuse our compost, it can be costly. But, it's our own food. So, we do it. We haven't had to do it for 4 years, because now we add neem leaf powder, laurel leaf powder, and cinnamon to our soil. We do still spray our plants with asprin water, but that's not to treat anything. Let's just say we never have black spots on our plants, we never have root nor blossom rot, nor bad fungus and our peppers are always magnificent. We do have our own trees to make that asprin from, but you can use low dose asprin from the store, crushed, and dissolved in water to do the same thing. 2 asprin per gallon. You spray it right over the plants, leaves, stems and under for the roots. It's an old native americam thing used for corn and hard squash. It works well on other plants too, and peppers love it the most.
Also true for wounds! Alcohol and h2O2 dry out and kill you good bio inhibiting your body’s natural ability to heal. Good water clean out and sterile bandage. Antibiotic ointment is fine too if starts to look angry… lots of studies behind this. Soil = skin
Excellent advice except for the antibiotic ointment. It's not antibiotic unless it's prescription. The OTC stuff is just a ointment with very, very little antibiotic.
My gramma was a head nurse and said that all you needed for a cut was to wash it well in soap and water and cover with a bandaid until the wound sealed. No Bactine or similar...if you had anything in there that soap, water, and a decent immune system wouldn't kill, you'd be ending up in the ER anyway.
hilarious! and you are proving your own point. i am a medical provider. Significant evidence based studies about avoiding any caustic or drying agents on wounds and we use normal saline (water with sm amt of sodium to match bodies salinity) in the er, primary care and podiatry. You will never see anyone use peroxide or alcohol in a medical setting to clean a wound.
Three weeks ago I made a dilution of 1:6 with hydrogen peroxide to get rid of powdery mildew and it completely destroyed my butternut squash. Crushed my soul a bit. So your point about getting the ratio right is SO TRUE and you're the first person i've heard say it outright.
Also, your point about root rot is true, should just fix the over watering, however for a kratky hydroponic set up there really is no watering less, so hydrogen peroxide is a life saver for root rot in that case!
I keep industrial spray bottles (24oz???) that have different substances in them: diluted bleach, StarSan solution, soap and water, .... I really like using the StarSan solution to sanitize stuff.
It would be nice if he'd linked the paper to know what was actually used. 1:60 is 1.6% which is only about half-strength home-use peroxide … very different if the 1-part starts out as a 3% solution. Important to know, esp. for those of us who start with stronger stuff because it's cheaper overall (I dilute 12% down to 3% for use on sunflower microgreen seeds … though these days I've switched everything over to HOCl because it's basically free to make, far safer, and far more effective).
@@ex-nerd not sure if I can link to the paper directly but actually googling Phamarplant Turbo as referred in the screen shot of the paper linked me to the paper in question. I think from a surface level read the H2O2 was being used as a comparative base line against the new (in 2005) anti-fungal. Only thing is that the paper does the concentrations of Peroxide in Millimolar values which I do not have the background in to interpret the units and convert to a concentration percentage. I thought the same thing, was is the standard 3% solution diluted down to 1.6% of H2O2 or do you use 1:60 of a 3% solution per litre of water, which would be less than 0.5% concentration?
1st year gardener here, I got gnats because I over watered. The plants survived, after I used the mosquito donuts soaked in my watering pot. But it took 1-2 months of light watering and yellow sticky traps. Never again! Now I use a moisture detection tool before I water my plants. 😂
Gracias por esa información, me encantó. Apenas sabía que había beneficios del peróxido, pero no sabía qué tan sesgado podría estar mi pensamiento. Ahora lo usaré más responsablemente.
Tomatoes: I've been using 3% hydrogen peroxide (1 cup per gallon of water) to control powdery mildew which is working well, but I have to spray EVERY DAY or else the PM gets out of control quickly. Rose seeds: In rose propagation, a hydrogen peroxide soak is commonly used to sterilize rose seeds before planting. The seeds usually have some organic matter from the hips sticking to them that is hard to completely remove so sterilizing helps prevent damping off (or so they say).
The late Dr. Red Duke, of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas used to have a popular local program addressing health issues back in the 1980s. I remember on episode about wound cleaning. Dr. Duke did not recommend using Hydrogen Peroxide. He said that the extra oxygen molecule actually gave the bacteria help in reproducing & spreading. Wow.
I have had great luck with diluted hydrogen peroxide getting rid of most powdery mildew. Sometimes it isn't enough or stresses out the plants too much, but it works well most of the time. Another thing that is highly effective against fungal growth is elevating the pH. Mixing some baking soda and water into a spray bottle and covering the foliage will get your pH up to around 8.5 making it so most fungi can't grow
Hydrogen peroxide isn't as widely used or avaible in Australia (at least as far as I know), but this was really interesting. It's always helpful to have more tools in your arsenal for the garden. Do you think you guys would be able to do a troubleshooting video for growing common and/or 'easy' crops. I personally struggle with radishes.
I personally do not have a garden, but grow plants on my balcony, in pots. Hydrogen peroxide has been one of the things that made a difference the most. It does have a boosting affect. I love the sizzling, really good for plants you get from the nursery, and have not repotted yet.
To add to the powdery mildew thing. Hydrogen peroxide is broken down by the sun so it will only be effective if you do it overnight or on a heavily overcast day with no rain. An alternative for use when it is sunny is a water/whole milk mixture. The proteins in the milk are activated by the sun and I've seen it start to work within hours. The caveat being you do *not* want to use a milk mixture on anything you cant rinse off with water later.
i use it to aerate plants that grow in water, rather than soil. So far it seems to have worked pretty well. Now I don't have to pull them out of the water to swap it with fresh very often.
What a wonderful video! Way to go Kevin and team. Dug the science based analysis. BTW was inspired by a few videos you did featuring small farmers. The “Indian Summer” farm hit me. Literally inspired me to begin the process of converting some of the yard space of “The Parks Inn” in the direction of sustainability and farm to table. Keep it up!
Another variable in this science experiment: Hydrogen peroxide is relatively unstable and decomposes quickly. In a sealed container, hydrogen peroxide lasts approximately 3 years. However, as soon as you open the container, it starts to break down. It’s only effective for 1 to 6 months once the container is opened.
I didn’t even finish the video and ran out to my pumpkin patch with a smidgeon I had on hand. Worse thing about squash or cucumbers is the powdery mildew.
I like iso alcohol for sterilizing my garden tools. Dampening off fungus on my seedlings was greatly reduced, when I started gollowing Jacque and Kevin's bottom watering method. I have WAY less fubgus gnats and less leggy, delicate seedlings. Now, to solve my aphid and cabbage moth inchworm issue (yes I have native lady bugs and their kids, but they're not eating as much as I'd like them to)
Gary from the Rusted Garden has been spraying his tomatoes with Hydrogen Peroxide for the last few years, and it clearly sorted out the fungal problems he used to get in Maryland. I suggest people go watch his videos on this - he's the expert (speaking from experience) on spraying with H2O2. And also on most other things to be honest... He's the OG.
I was wondering the same. Most pharmacy h2o2 is already only 3% and once you open a bottle it immediately starts converting to water and oxygen so you are likely not even starting with 3%. 1:60 dilution makes that a total maximum concentration of .0005:1 or 1 part h2o2 to 2000 parts water. That's one twentieth of one percent. I have big doubts that that is going to be effective against anything in an outdoor environment
I have used peroxide water mix for powdery mildew, and leaf spot on basil, worked great! Just like any spray you need to do it in the evening though. Sun baking down on the plants right away after spraying is not good. I just do 1 cup of peroxide to a gal. of water. Keeps it simple.
I use h2o2 for string algae in my rock pool Started using BT for fungus gnats last year, plus purecrop1, and the insect infestations in my greenhouse were markedly reduced! I also, because I had a huge bag of it leftover from a flea infestation, coated the topsoil of some pots with diatomaceous earth
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@@MyFocusVaries really? Maybe I’m not putting enough down because when I put that mulch down it weeds still grows, maybe I’m using a wrong mulch? I use straw, probably maybe a half inch, do I put moreV
@@SerumsFN you definitely need more! I use leaves (where I want the soil warmer) or straw (where I want the soil cooler), but at least 2 inches of straw or 3 of shredded leaves (leaves compress more).
@@MyFocusVaries man cheers! Your advice will generally really help out, I’ve got a back area where I currently am growing some peas, broccoli, beans, and some herbs, and always get weeds, just to make sure, is eucalyptus leaves fine or are they toxic to plants?
Typical store-bought Hydrogen Peroxide is 3% H2O2. That’s a 1:33 ratio. When you say a 1:60 ratio, do you mean 1 part H2O2 (100%) to 60 parts water? If so, then you just need to dilute store-bought 1:1.
I dated a micro biologist. I learned alcohol is best to dissect tools, but you need to let it air dry. If you wipe off the alcohol then it will not kill 99.9%
Ive used hydrogen peroxide in my garden, and it definitely has a use. But I only use it as a last resort when certain pests or organisms have taken over the root zone and nothing else is working. It damages the roots like crazy, and can even kill your plants, but when thats gonna happen anyway due to bad organisms, sometimes the nuclear option is the only option.
I love your myth busting videos, I think they're extremely important and on point, but I'm going to pick on you about one thing in this video: A study on one small batch of one type of plant with a diluted H2O2 to H2O ratio of 1:60 (which sounds more like homeopathy than science) combined with fertilizer and pharmaplant turbo whatever the heck that is, after being transplanted, to see the effects against one very specific deliberately introduced fungus in controlled conditions, does not relate to H2O2 + H2O being in any way effective when sprayed on powdery mildew (which is caused by several types of fungi) infected plants in uncontrolled conditions. There was a heck of a lot more done to the plants in that study to get the results they did than simply spraying powdery mildew infected plants with water diluted H2O2. If you're going to quote a study, please double check to make sure it is indeed relevant to the point you're trying to make.
Thank you for looking into this topic! It is really interesting! Are you able to link the papers to the research please? Hydrogen peroxide used to be antiseptic and or cleaner. They stopped using it on open wounds years ago. It was also used as a bleaching agent like in hair dye but that too is fading out with alternatives. The trouble with this, is knowing the strength of the H2O2. Whilst i don't disagree that it works on some things on certain drastic occasions and have seen people use it as a spray, i would be worried about other aspects of the eco biome. Each to their own of course, but a lot of the issues with have with pollinators is due to agricultural over spraying of chemicals. If we use too much chem spray, aren't we just doing the same as mass market farmers that supply the supermarkets? I usually bake or use boiling water to sterile seed soil mixes. Never tried a microwave but i have 3 old oven tins i use and then store it in an under bed storage container indoors. Some people also recommend milk or vinegar for powdery mildew? Would that not be a suitable organic alternative? Also removing infected leaves or the plant all together if it is causing too much trouble? I would rather sacrifice a plant than the soil. I also recently heard someone suggest that adding dish soap to your watering can, which can help the water be absorbed into the soil better? It isn't something i have heard before. Is there any merit to this? Not sure if you are up on UK waterways and river news but they are currently blaming farmers for chemical run off in the rivers. The thing they are down playing is the drains and the sewage waste now uses the same pipes, so when the pipes overflows, it now gets released into the rivers, etc in one big go. Once what was rivers and streams teaming with fish and now unswimmable due to medicine found in the water like antibiotics, etc. This is what they are trying to blame the farmers for, saying it is from livestock, not the human faeces, wet wipes/ non perishable hygiene products, and other medicine like insulin or viruses like polio that they found. It is crazy they are in debt but still gave bosses and shareholders big payoffs and nearing bankruptcy. It all used to be privatised but now foreign owned. They also keep raising prices but not doing anything. There was a chem spill of sodium cyanide from a local company in Walsall the other week, which leaked into a canal and killed all of the wildlife. Seems like France are also experiencing a similar situation. I would hate to think that anything we do in our house or garden would negatively effect the environment. Personally, as gardeners, allotmenters, small holders or homesteaders, we should be doing better and setting an example. We need to be eating more seasonally and preserving things for winter/ spring and during the "hunger gap". I absolutely love courgette/ zucchinni but have found since growing it at home, i don't buy as much of it as i used to in winter anymore from the shops as it just doesn't taste as good. One day i would love to have a lot of the homesteading gadgets, like a pressure cooker and an air fryer or dehydrator. I "can", what i can in jars, freeze and ferment. Dry herbs. Take care guys.
Would spraying leaves affected by powdery mildew with rubbing alcohol have an effect in reducing or preventing the damage? I may have to try the hydrogen peroxide.
I use hydrogen peroxide to deal with soil mold and algae when seedlings are young. Works good, just lightly mist the soil, not the plant. Let the soil dry to the touch before watering 👌
Been thinking about H2O2 to treat seed starting potting mix to try to deal with some seedlings that have been dampening off. Maybe I’ll toss some soil in the oven.
i think you're better of using potassium bi-carbonate as a regular foliar spray, which is anti-fungal and doubles as a safe but effective potassium fertilizer, rather than using an oxidizer like hydrogen peroxide, which can injure plants and beneficial insects.
i love mosquito bits/donuts they're so great. we were getting eaten alive by the new aggressive ankle biters so i started keeping a bucket filled with water that has a lucky bamboo submerged to attract the mosquitos to lay their eggs in the bt filled water. now we get bit wayyy less often. when a plant i got at a plant swap had some fungus gnats i watered it from that bucket & now they're all gone :)
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i think some of these are crossing over from hydroponics for one thing.. and doesnt milk whey (lacto bacillus or however its spelled) do an even BETTER job at removing powdery mildew?
@@epitt22 is that like right from the udder? no clue where i would get that locally but i always have the whey left over from making farmers cheese anyways. what i really need to be doing is not buying powdery mildew prone strains of weed seeds.
I was wondering if you tried dumping boiling water in the Bermuda grass to kill it... I have a path in my yard that's been taken over by grass and someone told me that boiling water would work. I am currently updating the irrigation here but will certainly try it. If someone out there already tried and have good (or bad) results please tell. 😁
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my yard was covered with Bermuda grass. I laid down large pieces of cardboard over the weeds and put manure and compost on top of the cardboard. I planted a veg garden on top digging holes down through the cardboard where I planted seeds. Had some bermuda grass come up through the cardboard, but not a lot. The next year put another layer of cardboard, manure and compost and planted another garden got hardly any bermuda grass. Now I just put new layers of compost and manure each year, no cardboard and have hardly any weed issues.
It makes sense. Your creating an environment that is disadvantageous to Bermuda grass in the long run
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the interesting about hydrogen peroxide is that it is no longer advised to pour it into wounds for the EXACT reason as this. It kills good bacteria that actually help the healing process (the bacteria depend on you to live, so it is their incentive to help you survive). The only time to do this is very specific situations, like stepping on a rusty nail that could have the anaerobic bacteria tetanus.
-Well don't go cray cray with it. Use some judgement. I was turned on to the different applications during the covid times. Which I just got, mother fucker. I was so dismayed. At any rate, Epic Gardeners, I totally concur with your evaluation. Also, if you were, let's just sayin, to get a cat scratch, clean it with hydrogen peroxide or soap and water. Thanks so much all you excellent and still learning Epic Gardeners.Obviously, it will not cure tetanus.
That is strange because our body naturally creates hydrogen peroxide, which is part of the deployment process for wound healing by the body.
That's really good to know about powdery mildew, thank you! I'll give this a try.
I laughed so hard when you said Eric may have been in charge of that patch 😂
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You're a good and patient teacher. My wife and I have learned a lot from you
I had horrible powdery mildew problems in my front yard. It seemed like the problem increased each year. By 2022, it was really bad.
I sprayed with a hydrogen peroxide mixture. It would knock the problem back. I would respray, and it would knock the problem back for a short time.
However, this year.....rhe problem is all but completely gone.
I had root rot with my hydroponic strawberries. I used “force of nature” since that’s all the craze in my hydroponic groups. It did actually help.
The first time I used HP was when I grew some Frangipanis from seed. I sprouted them indoors and then they got the dampening off issue, so I wrote to a grower in Thailand and he suggested the HP treatment, which worked really well. I think it’s good to use on a specific problem but not as a cure all for everything in the garden.
I use methylated spirits to clean my secateurs etc.
I do recommend to people to use HP to kill fungus gnats for indoor plants however, but an even better way of avoiding fungus gnats is to use a bark free potting mix for indoor plants, such as a coir based potting soil, as the gnats like bark. Works for me 😊
As you said, hydrogen peroxide helps root rot. But you said that root rot can be fixed by watering less, the problem with this is if you’re doing hydroponics, you’re not watering your crops in the same way that you would with soil. There is no soil in hydroponics. The roots grow directly in water, so you cant just water less, This is intentional. Using h202 adds oxygen to the solution. Thus allowing us to not use soil. I’d love a video about hydroponics. It’s how I garden currently because I don’t have a backyard yet.
I have a problem with root rot in Hydroponic, I have hydrogen peroxide 50% concentrate so How many CC should I use for 100 liters ? thank you
What?! You finally got an Espiritu Sancti?! That's awesome. I remember how rare it is from the house plants episode.
Part of me feels that we might need more research on fungus gnats. I say this because from personal experience and observation (with only 3 years of gardening) that fungus gnats might be a solution to gardening than a problem. Think flies detecting gas from rotten food so they feed and breed to help eliminate the stench and spoiled content.
I've had a tray of plants die because of fungus gnats during my 1st year of gardening. Placed the tray by the window with an opening of about .25 inches and there's screen window as well. Eventually, plants started growing by the numbers. One morning, I noticed a great number of fungus gnats by the window and on the plants. I started placing sticky traps and saw hundreds of stuck/dead gnats but they just kept coming until one day plants on the tray started dying and soon had to toss the tray.
Months later, I started growing mango and avocado plants in my backyard. Didn't take long before fungus gnats started to appear on the plant and soil. I thought it was game over and decided to quit on these plants. A month goes by and these fruit plants continue to thrive despite seeing fungus gnats. A year has passed and these plants are still thriving, some are rapidly growing nicely with no site of fungus gnats. I no longer see fungus gnats as a threat as I continue to see on my other plants and herbs but all are thriving nice and healthy.
So I wonder if fungus gnats detect fungus gases from infected plants and do their work feeding and breeding on fungus. But sometimes the fungus has grown so rapidly that the gnats couldn't keep up thus killing the plant but we happen to see the gnats as the threat because of their presence. Just my theory.
Fungas gnats are the least of my concerns when it comes to pests. I now welcome them, as they feed my pings.
I did a germination experiment this spring with large numbers of (over 160) hard-to-germinate pepper seeds. Soaking in water, tea, 1% Hydrogen Peroxide, sanding the seeds, and trimming the seeds, plus a control. I did not find a stastistically meaningful advantage for any of the preparation methods in terms of germination speed or rate, and hydrogen peroxide was worse than the control in rate. Last year I had tried soaking pepper seeds in hydrogen peroxide for different amounts of time at 1% or 3% concentration, and found that soaking very long had very negative consequences. So thank you for bringing some of the hype about hydrogen peroxide to the foreground. There may be constructive uses for it, but they are hard to pin down and they are most likely to be found with subtle and carefully chosen uses.
I have used h2o2 diluted on water with sunflower seeds for microgreens. It increased the germination ratio.
Wait, what? Why is Kevin throwing Eric under the bus? What did Eric ever do to him? He seems like such a cool guy, and not a bad looker if I may say so.
Eric is responsible for everything that goes wrong in the Epic Garden.
I would be annoyed too if some anti-green thumbed guy was destroying what was otherwise perfect.
It would be nice that if you're referencing a research paper in your video, to provide a link to it in the description. There's a big difference between 1:60 where the 1-part is already diluted 3% home-use peroxide, vs the 1.6% you'd get if it was talking about the ratio of pure peroxide to water. Personally, I've switched most of my sanitization needs over to hypochlorous acid (HOCl) because it's basically free to make, and so much safer than H2O2 (and 1000x more effective at killing bacteria/fungi/viruses than bleach). I'll have to try a dilute mixture once my squash start showing signs of powdery mildew.
How do you make hypochlorous acid? 😊
I grow zinnias as rabbit food and every year about this time they get crazy powdery mildew. I'm going to try the peroxide 1x a week to see if we can get his food back healthy. Once it has mildew he goes back to store bought. He's a food snob and will refuse to eat for a full day waiting on the fresh food.
Stop spoiling animals 😂Food snob? Rabbits eat grass
@@lemonyskunkketts7781Domestic rabbits actually have a very sensitive digestive tract, and while hay is a form of grass, it’s not just some run-of-the-mill lawn grass. It has a specific amount of protein and fiber that keeps rabbits from getting digestive stasis. OP is a very good pet parent for growing for their bunbun and spoiling your beloved pet is a privilege, no need to shame them for it.
@@mahaasim241 then atleast grow a second food...Alfalfa? When the animals get spoiled, they wont eat anything else if you run out of their top pick. I feed my animals their secondary choice as their overall food and give them their top pick less often.
No, brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, apple leaves ...oh, I'm slave to Geggy ☺️ @@lemonyskunkketts7781
I've used hydrogen peroxide and water for speeding up some seed germination before. It seemed to work well for me. I was impressed. it cut down the time by only a couple's days.
I was thinking this might be a good application, where the seeds needed scarification or to otherwise break through a membrane on the outer coating. Which seeds did you use it on? I have such a short season, and my solanums take FOREVER to germinate.
Not our mix ratio.. We very rarely do it, but... We use it for 2 things. Powdery Mildew, & SC potato gnats. (The gnats come in, at stores, inside of nonhomogonized bags of soil and compost, then spread out from there and from people using them at their homes.) Those gnats can not survive our winters, but thrive strongly in summer. Our mix, Per gallon..1 part Peroxide, 3 drops Dawn dishsoap, 1 tsp baking soda, 6 parts water. We also add 1/2tsp neem powder, and 1/2tsp cinnamon, and 1tsp laurel leaf powder, per gallon, since we are spraying anyway. That keeps ants, giant Gates grasshoppers, and several other nasty pests away. We do NOT spray it on blossoms or fruits/vegetables. Only on the plants and the ground under and around the plants. So, there are probably 50 to 80 people in our fields with hand sprayers, when we actually have to spray this. This works for both problems, and it works very well. We re-add positive bacterias and other needed things back to the soil after we do it though. Also by hand and also costly. So, the labor and time is def a consideration if your going to do it. We buy peroxide in a tank truck, the neem leaf we harvest ourselves from a property way down south, the bay leaf aka Laurel leaf comes from a fella in Cali, and the cinnamon we buy in bulk from Mexico. (Low grade low cost cinnamon Not the cinnamon we eat. We use it for dusting) Anyway, those gnats are far more destructive to plants than the peroxide is to the soil. Especially for root vegetables, tomatoes, and beans. JS. 🤔 But... we also spray our peppers with asprin water, and we add zinc to our canning of anything green. We also use a waaay OLD school, (ancient Egypt stuff), homemade lye soap water to get rid of weevils and other destructive pests too. Yes, starting with hard wood ash and rain water lye, type of old. So what do we know. 👀👀 We actially know some stuff. 😉
"We re-add positive bacterias and other needed things back to the soil after we do it though. Also by hand and also costly" what exactly do you re-add after spraying with that mix?
@@deafosho We have 2 long established, 6 generations, food forests. We do 40% harvesting in them, but we monitor them closely. Both have established mushrooms, that were scattered out there 6 generations back. We do about a 50% harvest on those. We also keep around 6 tons of natural compost at both places. Cow manure, cut grasses, our own oat straw, wood mulch from the property, old animal bedding, some green cutting from the fields, plus, we grow clover on the compost heaps, On the rare occassions that we have to use that treatment, we pull about 4 inches of the food forest surface back and take about 6 inches of that natural forest compost out. Then mix it with out man made natural compost. We put that mix in to the planted field dirt by hand. Removing this wild compost means we also have to add our manmade nqatural compost to the food forest floor, and push the 4" surface back on top. Last time it took about 3 tons away from 6 ton compost heaps. Because we grow clover and fungus/mushroom infuse our compost, it can be costly. But, it's our own food. So, we do it. We haven't had to do it for 4 years, because now we add neem leaf powder, laurel leaf powder, and cinnamon to our soil. We do still spray our plants with asprin water, but that's not to treat anything. Let's just say we never have black spots on our plants, we never have root nor blossom rot, nor bad fungus and our peppers are always magnificent. We do have our own trees to make that asprin from, but you can use low dose asprin from the store, crushed, and dissolved in water to do the same thing. 2 asprin per gallon. You spray it right over the plants, leaves, stems and under for the roots. It's an old native americam thing used for corn and hard squash. It works well on other plants too, and peppers love it the most.
Also true for wounds! Alcohol and h2O2 dry out and kill you good bio inhibiting your body’s natural ability to heal. Good water clean out and sterile bandage. Antibiotic ointment is fine too if starts to look angry… lots of studies behind this. Soil = skin
Excellent advice except for the antibiotic ointment. It's not antibiotic unless it's prescription. The OTC stuff is just a ointment with very, very little antibiotic.
And kids thats how we develope wound poisoning by following influencers on YT and IG.
Cleaning wound with water...
My gramma was a head nurse and said that all you needed for a cut was to wash it well in soap and water and cover with a bandaid until the wound sealed. No Bactine or similar...if you had anything in there that soap, water, and a decent immune system wouldn't kill, you'd be ending up in the ER anyway.
Peroxide is BAD for cuts and wounds. Do some research as the old wives tales have been disproven
hilarious! and you are proving your own point. i am a medical provider. Significant evidence based studies about avoiding any caustic or drying agents on wounds and we use normal saline (water with sm amt of sodium to match bodies salinity) in the er, primary care and podiatry. You will never see anyone use peroxide or alcohol in a medical setting to clean a wound.
Three weeks ago I made a dilution of 1:6 with hydrogen peroxide to get rid of powdery mildew and it completely destroyed my butternut squash. Crushed my soul a bit.
So your point about getting the ratio right is SO TRUE and you're the first person i've heard say it outright.
Also, your point about root rot is true, should just fix the over watering, however for a kratky hydroponic set up there really is no watering less, so hydrogen peroxide is a life saver for root rot in that case!
You got a shoutout on the Native Plants Healthy Planet Podcast on the newest episode 👍👍of
I keep industrial spray bottles (24oz???) that have different substances in them: diluted bleach, StarSan solution, soap and water, .... I really like using the StarSan solution to sanitize stuff.
@@mutantryeff I also prefer alcohol over bleach. It won't corrode and overspray won't bleach your clothes.
1:60 ratio is crazy diluted for the hydrogen peroxide 👀. Interesting info!
It would be nice if he'd linked the paper to know what was actually used. 1:60 is 1.6% which is only about half-strength home-use peroxide … very different if the 1-part starts out as a 3% solution. Important to know, esp. for those of us who start with stronger stuff because it's cheaper overall (I dilute 12% down to 3% for use on sunflower microgreen seeds … though these days I've switched everything over to HOCl because it's basically free to make, far safer, and far more effective).
@@ex-nerd not sure if I can link to the paper directly but actually googling Phamarplant Turbo as referred in the screen shot of the paper linked me to the paper in question. I think from a surface level read the H2O2 was being used as a comparative base line against the new (in 2005) anti-fungal.
Only thing is that the paper does the concentrations of Peroxide in Millimolar values which I do not have the background in to interpret the units and convert to a concentration percentage. I thought the same thing, was is the standard 3% solution diluted down to 1.6% of H2O2 or do you use 1:60 of a 3% solution per litre of water, which would be less than 0.5% concentration?
@@ex-nerdhow do you make HOCL?
1st year gardener here, I got gnats because I over watered. The plants survived, after I used the mosquito donuts soaked in my watering pot. But it took 1-2 months of light watering and yellow sticky traps. Never again! Now I use a moisture detection tool before I water my plants. 😂
Gracias por esa información, me encantó. Apenas sabía que había beneficios del peróxido, pero no sabía qué tan sesgado podría estar mi pensamiento. Ahora lo usaré más responsablemente.
Nice video! Glad you covered this!
Tomatoes: I've been using 3% hydrogen peroxide (1 cup per gallon of water) to control powdery mildew which is working well, but I have to spray EVERY DAY or else the PM gets out of control quickly.
Rose seeds: In rose propagation, a hydrogen peroxide soak is commonly used to sterilize rose seeds before planting. The seeds usually have some organic matter from the hips sticking to them that is hard to completely remove so sterilizing helps prevent damping off (or so they say).
Glad you mentioned the importance of birds and amphibians in the garden. A lot of UA-camrs completely miss that.
The late Dr. Red Duke, of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas used to have a popular local program addressing health issues back in the 1980s. I remember on episode about wound cleaning. Dr. Duke did not recommend using Hydrogen Peroxide. He said that the extra oxygen molecule actually gave the bacteria help in reproducing & spreading. Wow.
I’ve always wondered how to get rid of powdery mildew!
I have had great luck with diluted hydrogen peroxide getting rid of most powdery mildew. Sometimes it isn't enough or stresses out the plants too much, but it works well most of the time. Another thing that is highly effective against fungal growth is elevating the pH. Mixing some baking soda and water into a spray bottle and covering the foliage will get your pH up to around 8.5 making it so most fungi can't grow
Hydrogen peroxide isn't as widely used or avaible in Australia (at least as far as I know), but this was really interesting. It's always helpful to have more tools in your arsenal for the garden.
Do you think you guys would be able to do a troubleshooting video for growing common and/or 'easy' crops. I personally struggle with radishes.
You can buy it in any chemist but in smaller bottles I think 😊
I personally do not have a garden, but grow plants on my balcony, in pots. Hydrogen peroxide has been one of the things that made a difference the most. It does have a boosting affect. I love the sizzling, really good for plants you get from the nursery, and have not repotted yet.
Gnats. Easy solution. Two inches of sand on top. Bottom water. No more gnats and no real work maintaining that status.
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To add to the powdery mildew thing. Hydrogen peroxide is broken down by the sun so it will only be effective if you do it overnight or on a heavily overcast day with no rain. An alternative for use when it is sunny is a water/whole milk mixture. The proteins in the milk are activated by the sun and I've seen it start to work within hours. The caveat being you do *not* want to use a milk mixture on anything you cant rinse off with water later.
i use it to aerate plants that grow in water, rather than soil. So far it seems to have worked pretty well. Now I don't have to pull them out of the water to swap it with fresh very often.
What a wonderful video! Way to go Kevin and team. Dug the science based analysis. BTW was inspired by a few videos you did featuring small farmers. The “Indian Summer” farm hit me. Literally inspired me to begin the process of converting some of the yard space of “The Parks Inn” in the direction of sustainability and farm to table. Keep it up!
I've only ever used it for fungus gnats indoors. It kills their food in the pots so you no longer have little bugs flying everywhere.
So, to solve root rot, just don't overwater? I didn't see a clear answer.
Another variable in this science experiment: Hydrogen peroxide is relatively unstable and decomposes quickly. In a sealed container, hydrogen peroxide lasts approximately 3 years. However, as soon as you open the container, it starts to break down. It’s only effective for 1 to 6 months once the container is opened.
So interesting - I had never heard of any uses of hydrogen peroxide in the garden but cool to hear the debates and the research 💪
I didn’t even finish the video and ran out to my pumpkin patch with a smidgeon I had on hand. Worse thing about squash or cucumbers is the powdery mildew.
I like iso alcohol for sterilizing my garden tools. Dampening off fungus on my seedlings was greatly reduced, when I started gollowing Jacque and Kevin's bottom watering method. I have WAY less fubgus gnats and less leggy, delicate seedlings. Now, to solve my aphid and cabbage moth inchworm issue (yes I have native lady bugs and their kids, but they're not eating as much as I'd like them to)
Gary from the Rusted Garden has been spraying his tomatoes with Hydrogen Peroxide for the last few years, and it clearly sorted out the fungal problems he used to get in Maryland. I suggest people go watch his videos on this - he's the expert (speaking from experience) on spraying with H2O2. And also on most other things to be honest... He's the OG.
For disinfecting pruners, I saw Jacques use a torch! Is that a better effective method?
I don't think so
"1 part h2o2 to 60 parts water" ... is that 1 part of (3% pharmacy h2o2) or 1 part of (h2o2 molecules)?
Link to source material would help a lot if you have it thx
I was wondering the same. Most pharmacy h2o2 is already only 3% and once you open a bottle it immediately starts converting to water and oxygen so you are likely not even starting with 3%. 1:60 dilution makes that a total maximum concentration of .0005:1 or 1 part h2o2 to 2000 parts water. That's one twentieth of one percent. I have big doubts that that is going to be effective against anything in an outdoor environment
@@kcs1852 Yes that's what had me wondering, although i didn't do the actual math. Thanks for backing up my question
I think yt will eat my comment if I put a link, but the paper PDF is available on researchgate if you search the title, which can be seen 4:35 ish.
@@marskristin Thanks Kristin
If you put neem seed meal in your soil mix, 1/2 cup to a 5 gallons container, ypu will not get fungus gnats.
OOOOH please be true! Running to Amazon now! Those little f'ers need to GO!
I have used peroxide water mix for powdery mildew, and leaf spot on basil, worked great! Just like any spray you need to do it in the evening though. Sun baking down on the plants right away after spraying is not good. I just do 1 cup of peroxide to a gal. of water. Keeps it simple.
I use h2o2 for string algae in my rock pool
Started using BT for fungus gnats last year, plus purecrop1, and the insect infestations in my greenhouse were markedly reduced! I also, because I had a huge bag of it leftover from a flea infestation, coated the topsoil of some pots with diatomaceous earth
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Hey ! Just wondering how you keep weeds from growing in the garden? And how to get bigger potato harvests? Cheers Kev!
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@@MyFocusVaries really? Maybe I’m not putting enough down because when I put that mulch down it weeds still grows, maybe I’m using a wrong mulch? I use straw, probably maybe a half inch, do I put moreV
@@SerumsFN about 2 inches
@@SerumsFN you definitely need more! I use leaves (where I want the soil warmer) or straw (where I want the soil cooler), but at least 2 inches of straw or 3 of shredded leaves (leaves compress more).
@@MyFocusVaries man cheers! Your advice will generally really help out, I’ve got a back area where I currently am growing some peas, broccoli, beans, and some herbs, and always get weeds, just to make sure, is eucalyptus leaves fine or are they toxic to plants?
We have some powdery mildew on our okra leaves. Will try this and will report back
Typical store-bought Hydrogen Peroxide is 3% H2O2. That’s a 1:33 ratio.
When you say a 1:60 ratio, do you mean 1 part H2O2 (100%) to 60 parts water? If so, then you just need to dilute store-bought 1:1.
Helpful video!! Also, would love to see a full houseplant tour😍
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I dated a micro biologist. I learned alcohol is best to dissect tools, but you need to let it air dry. If you wipe off the alcohol then it will not kill 99.9%
Disinfect*
Interesting. But y know. There's no shortcut to gardening but work. On that note, could you do another vid on no dig vs fertilizer?
I’ve heard and watched videos of gardening folks spray their plants with a aspirin solution to combat fungal diseases
When you sat by the pond I thought your were going to talk about using peroxide to kill bluegreen algae
Vinegar : I agree. I have marble rocks with flagstones. I poor vinegar and the path stays weed free .
Ive used hydrogen peroxide in my garden, and it definitely has a use. But I only use it as a last resort when certain pests or organisms have taken over the root zone and nothing else is working. It damages the roots like crazy, and can even kill your plants, but when thats gonna happen anyway due to bad organisms, sometimes the nuclear option is the only option.
I just sprayed backing soda diluted in water and hope for the best. 🤞
I use it to disinfect my seedling pots before I fill them with good soil
Rosy Hardy gardening uses crushed cork on the surface of soil to deter soil gnats. She is a commercial grower of perennials on UA-cam.
Thank you for the mosquito bt tip i really needed it 😢
I treat blight with HP. WE HAVE A LOT OF BLIGHT
I, certainly, would not want to rust away...
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I love your myth busting videos, I think they're extremely important and on point, but I'm going to pick on you about one thing in this video: A study on one small batch of one type of plant with a diluted H2O2 to H2O ratio of 1:60 (which sounds more like homeopathy than science) combined with fertilizer and pharmaplant turbo whatever the heck that is, after being transplanted, to see the effects against one very specific deliberately introduced fungus in controlled conditions, does not relate to H2O2 + H2O being in any way effective when sprayed on powdery mildew (which is caused by several types of fungi) infected plants in uncontrolled conditions. There was a heck of a lot more done to the plants in that study to get the results they did than simply spraying powdery mildew infected plants with water diluted H2O2. If you're going to quote a study, please double check to make sure it is indeed relevant to the point you're trying to make.
I use alcohol to disinfect my pruners. And I use peroxide on my tropical rhizomes i receive through the mail.
Thanks for the info.
Thank you for looking into this topic! It is really interesting! Are you able to link the papers to the research please?
Hydrogen peroxide used to be antiseptic and or cleaner. They stopped using it on open wounds years ago. It was also used as a bleaching agent like in hair dye but that too is fading out with alternatives.
The trouble with this, is knowing the strength of the H2O2. Whilst i don't disagree that it works on some things on certain drastic occasions and have seen people use it as a spray, i would be worried about other aspects of the eco biome.
Each to their own of course, but a lot of the issues with have with pollinators is due to agricultural over spraying of chemicals. If we use too much chem spray, aren't we just doing the same as mass market farmers that supply the supermarkets?
I usually bake or use boiling water to sterile seed soil mixes. Never tried a microwave but i have 3 old oven tins i use and then store it in an under bed storage container indoors.
Some people also recommend milk or vinegar for powdery mildew? Would that not be a suitable organic alternative? Also removing infected leaves or the plant all together if it is causing too much trouble? I would rather sacrifice a plant than the soil.
I also recently heard someone suggest that adding dish soap to your watering can, which can help the water be absorbed into the soil better? It isn't something i have heard before. Is there any merit to this?
Not sure if you are up on UK waterways and river news but they are currently blaming farmers for chemical run off in the rivers. The thing they are down playing is the drains and the sewage waste now uses the same pipes, so when the pipes overflows, it now gets released into the rivers, etc in one big go. Once what was rivers and streams teaming with fish and now unswimmable due to medicine found in the water like antibiotics, etc. This is what they are trying to blame the farmers for, saying it is from livestock, not the human faeces, wet wipes/ non perishable hygiene products, and other medicine like insulin or viruses like polio that they found. It is crazy they are in debt but still gave bosses and shareholders big payoffs and nearing bankruptcy. It all used to be privatised but now foreign owned. They also keep raising prices but not doing anything. There was a chem spill of sodium cyanide from a local company in Walsall the other week, which leaked into a canal and killed all of the wildlife. Seems like France are also experiencing a similar situation.
I would hate to think that anything we do in our house or garden would negatively effect the environment. Personally, as gardeners, allotmenters, small holders or homesteaders, we should be doing better and setting an example. We need to be eating more seasonally and preserving things for winter/ spring and during the "hunger gap". I absolutely love courgette/ zucchinni but have found since growing it at home, i don't buy as much of it as i used to in winter anymore from the shops as it just doesn't taste as good.
One day i would love to have a lot of the homesteading gadgets, like a pressure cooker and an air fryer or dehydrator. I "can", what i can in jars, freeze and ferment. Dry herbs.
Take care guys.
Would spraying leaves affected by powdery mildew with rubbing alcohol have an effect in reducing or preventing the damage? I may have to try the hydrogen peroxide.
I use hydrogen peroxide to deal with soil mold and algae when seedlings are young. Works good, just lightly mist the soil, not the plant. Let the soil dry to the touch before watering 👌
Thank you for this. I have been saying these things for some time.
Gonna try with mildew thanks!
Fantastic video as usual ❤👍👍🌱🌿
Wait.. does diluted milk help powdery mildew on plants?
Been thinking about H2O2 to treat seed starting potting mix to try to deal with some seedlings that have been dampening off. Maybe I’ll toss some soil in the oven.
I feel like it’s good in moderation too
i think you're better of using potassium bi-carbonate as a regular foliar spray, which is anti-fungal and doubles as a safe but effective potassium fertilizer, rather than using an oxidizer like hydrogen peroxide, which can injure plants and beneficial insects.
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Thank you.
I have a small spray bottle of alcohol I carry on my apron for a quick dis
i love mosquito bits/donuts they're so great. we were getting eaten alive by the new aggressive ankle biters so i started keeping a bucket filled with water that has a lucky bamboo submerged to attract the mosquitos to lay their eggs in the bt filled water. now we get bit wayyy less often. when a plant i got at a plant swap had some fungus gnats i watered it from that bucket & now they're all gone :)
I didn't know you can fly out plants from the Philippines. Now I know. 😅
Thank you, Kevin (& Eric 😆). 😊
Works great for my dragon fruit spots
hi I love gardening what a good plant to start with I was thinking about strawberry's, mango and potatoes please help me on my journey BTW I live in South Africa
I have never heard of using hydrogen peroxide in your garden! Wow.Ive also never heard of sterilizing your soil! 😮
i think some of these are crossing over from hydroponics for one thing.. and doesnt milk whey (lacto bacillus or however its spelled) do an even BETTER job at removing powdery mildew?
Not for me and I use raw milk.
@@epitt22 is that like right from the udder? no clue where i would get that locally but i always have the whey left over from making farmers cheese anyways. what i really need to be doing is not buying powdery mildew prone strains of weed seeds.
I was wondering if you tried dumping boiling water in the Bermuda grass to kill it... I have a path in my yard that's been taken over by grass and someone told me that boiling water would work. I am currently updating the irrigation here but will certainly try it. If someone out there already tried and have good (or bad) results please tell. 😁
Thanks for this.
I had never heard this before
Honestly, this is the first time im hearing about it and gardening.