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it's that time of year again when fungal
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diseases
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start to show up in the garden there are
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many ways
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to try and prevent them to keep them
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from coming
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but eventually in spite of all that some
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will show up
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however there are some things that you
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probably already have
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at home right now that will help save
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your plants
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so in this video i'm going to go over
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prevention and home remedies that
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actually
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get growing let me know in the comments
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if you're starting to see some diseases
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pop
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up right now fungal diseases like mosaic
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virus
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rust verticillium wilt and of course our
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favorite
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powdery mildew also let me know what you
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use
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to prevent and treat these diseases so
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over the next two weeks i'm going to be
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working with the photographer
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here in the garden to uh take pictures
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for the book
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so we've got a few photo sessions set
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now
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my biggest priority at this point is
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keeping the garden
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disease free right now it's looking at
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its best
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and i need to keep it that way so i am
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going to be using
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a ton of preventative strategies but i
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also have some home remedies at the
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ready
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in case i see something start to crop up
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so as always let's talk prevention
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first now all of these diseases that i'm
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going to talk about today
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are fungal diseases so they're all
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caused by
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spores the first one is
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mosaic virus now there are several types
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of mosaic
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virus that actually affect a wide
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variety of crops but
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usually they are going to present
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themselves as
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different color greens and yellows and
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whites they're going to show up in
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bands and stripes and blotches they're
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gonna really look like
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a mosaic or a stained glass and there
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are three ways that this virus
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spreads number one it's spread through
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touch if you touch a plant that has
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mosaic virus and then touch a plant that
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doesn't
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you yourself could be spreading that
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virus so
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wash your hands if you ever have to
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touch a plant that has that virus
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the second way is through aphids aphids
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eating on one plant that
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has it and then going to another plant
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that doesn't have it that will spread
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and the third way is actually seed borne
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the virus is asleep
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in the seed of the plant you plant the
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seed the plant comes up
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might look okay at first but eventually
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that virus is going to show itself so
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preventing seed borne really is don't
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save seeds that
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you know have that virus don't save
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seeds from the plant that year
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to the next year and then just buy your
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seeds from
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reputable sources for the aphid thing
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we're going to go back to a companion
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planting video that i did
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and you want to plant plants that either
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repel aphids
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like members of the allium family onions
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shallots garlic but also companion plant
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with plants that
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attract aphid predators such as ladybugs
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and
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lace wings and things like that and you
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do that by planting
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interplanting fennel daisies
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dill all those plants are going to bring
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in natural predators
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of aphids so hopefully try to keep those
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at bay
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so i've got some dill planted right here
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in with some of my peppers
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i've got some daisies planted over there
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i'm not a fan of fennel so i don't have
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that so the next disease
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is rust that's another fungal disease
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and it's really easy to identify because
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it looks like
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rust it's orangy golden dusty
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uh splotches that can actually be raised
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they can start to disfigure the leaf
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in a bad situation they can defoliate
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the whole plant killing it
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so to prevent that water from below drip
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if possible but do not never spray the
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leaves because that is going to
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the splash is going to start spreading
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that virus from one plant to the next
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very quickly any rust leaves that you
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see or stems
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snip them off get them out of your
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garden into the trash or destroy them
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never leave any of these diseases you
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know on a leaf or that you cut off and
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leave on the ground you always got to
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get them out of there to stop the spread
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keep the leaves as dry as possible prune
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some of the
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the leaves and the interior of the plant
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so you can kind of see through there or
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know that you're
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letting air get through there and kind
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of drying off the leaves after a rain or
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after all night long
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and make sure you're growing them in
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enough sun another way to prevent them
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is by just simply growing
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rust resistant varieties there's rust
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resistant varieties of just about every
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crop so look for those if you know you
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have a problem with rust in your area
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year to year another fungal disease that
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is a little bit different
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is verticillium wilt because it lives in
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the soil
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and not on the leaves and it grows
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through the goes through the plant
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systemically
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cucumbers melons eggplant
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different squashes tomatoes peppers
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those are all going to be plants that
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are affected
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mostly by verticillium wilt and
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unfortunately once
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you have this in your plant once it goes
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from the soil
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up into the the roots and the stems and
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leaves of your plant you cannot get rid
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of it
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now it may not kill the plant outright
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and you don't need to quickly remove it
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because as i said it's soil borne
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so anything near it's probably going to
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get it anyway
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but you can continue to harvest from it
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it might kill off part of the plant
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usually it shows up on one side of the
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plant for some reason and so the other
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side
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can keep going for a while so you don't
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have to pull it out immediately
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especially
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especially if you have some things
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fruiting see if you see if you can get
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them to
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mature and ripen and then you can pull
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out the plant when it's done
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the thing with verticillium wilt is you
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really need to start the practice
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of crop rotation don't grow
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a one of those plants that i just
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mentioned that are actually more
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susceptible to verticillium wilt don't
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grow those in that same location
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for at least four more years you can
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plant
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uh plants in that area in those four
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years that really aren't as affected
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by verticillium wilt now the fourth one
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is
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powdery mildew and i'm not sure there's
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a garden out there
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that doesn't have some sort of powdery
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mildew at some point during the year and
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i'm not even sure that there's a plant
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out there
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that is naturally resistant to it you
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know a type of plant powdery mildew
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another fungal
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disease these these diseases they the
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spores come in
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on the wind and then they usually are
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perpetuated through
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moisture through splashing that's mostly
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how some of these
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spread and so just like i was mentioning
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with rust water from below
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keep the leaves as dry as possible do a
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lot of pruning
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remove any affected leaves or stems get
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them out of the garden
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and don't compost these things as well
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because if you don't have a hot compost
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pile which
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i think a lot of people probably don't i
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don't mine is a cold
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pile that will not kill those spores and
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then you will just be adding them back
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into your garden in the next year
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prune off any leaves that you see and
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usually it's going to be the older
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leaves
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and you know a lot of times this is in
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my garden is seen on the cucurbits you
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know squash melons things like that
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um so keep keep an eye on those those
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older leaves and prune them off
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as soon as you see any type of uh damage
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any type of disease but certainly any
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type of mildew problems and they're
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going to start out looking like someone
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sprinkled
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baby powder on the leaves powdery mildew
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really takes hold when plants are not
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growing
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in a sunny enough location so
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if it's a full sun plant which most
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crops are they need at least six to
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eight hours of direct
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sunlight per day and that alone is going
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to at least push off powdery mildew
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until much later
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in the season now if you've done all
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these things
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and one or more of these diseases except
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for verticillium wilt which there is no
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cure for
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uh but one of the other three show up in
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spite of everything you've done
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and at least one powdery mildew probably
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will there
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are some things that you can use that
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you already probably have around the
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house
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that will kill the fungal spores
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but not kill all of the beneficial life
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that you have
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in your garden so remember verticillium
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wilt once you've got it
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there's no cure the other three let's go
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over some home remedies that actually
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work
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one word of warning i'm starting with
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though is in any of these solutions that
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i'm going to tell you about
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you always want to make sure that you do
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a
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test spray spray a few of the leaves
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at the time of day that you're going to
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be spraying all the leaves so you want
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to make sure the sun and everything is
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is
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the same spray a few leaves wait 24
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hours
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and if everything looks okay then you
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can move on and spray
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the rest of your garden the first one is
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baking soda baking soda is an
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anti-fungal
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in the garden you want to use three
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tablespoons mixed into a gallon of water
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put a few drops of dish soap in there to
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help it stick to the leaves
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and you want to spray the plants heavily
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because it only kills spores that it
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comes in direct contact with so
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spray the tops and the bottoms of the
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leaves all over the plant
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milk also works milk is an anti-fungal
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in that
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and milk you want to spray on a sunny
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day now
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a lot of sprays you kind of want to do
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the morning or the evening when the sun
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is not so bright
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but with milk it actually interacts with
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the sunlight
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to create free radicals on the surface
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of the leaf and in that process of
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creating those free radicals
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the fungal spores are killed so in a
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sprayer mix four parts
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milk to six parts water shake it up
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really well
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and spray the plants thoroughly you can
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also spray milk every two weeks
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as a fungal preventative so when the
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first spore lands on that leaf
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if you've recently sprayed milk it will
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be a part of the killing process
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and you will never let it take hold
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another choice is hydrogen peroxide the
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good old three percent
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brown bottle hydrogen peroxide you
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probably have
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under your bathroom sink or in your
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medicine cabinet you want to use ten
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tablespoons of three percent hydrogen
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peroxide per gallon
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of water and again spray the plants
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thoroughly because
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these solutions only kill when they come
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in contact with the spores
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if you use mouthwash you are basically
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killing bacteria
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in your mouth and that same solution of
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mouthwash
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will kill the spores of fungus on your
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plants
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generic ethanol based mouthwash
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mixed with water so three parts
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mouthwash
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one part mouthwash to three parts water
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in a sprayer
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spray the plants thoroughly and the last
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one very similar to mouthwash is vinegar
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two to three tablespoons of vinegar per
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gallon of water in a sprayer spray the
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plants thoroughly
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and that will help take care of the
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funguses as well now
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prevention again i'm gonna stress it it
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is number one
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but if it still happens anyway these
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solutions should help
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