rib@cord.UUCP (RI Block) (08/05/85)
The latest issue (8/85) of Organic Gardening (now called Rodale's Organic Gardening) has two ideas worth following up. According to unnamed Japanese researchers, Sodium Bicarbonate (baking soda) is effective in preventing powdery mildew. Two grams per liter (1/4 oz. per gallon) is listed as the concentration used. The solution is supposedly effective as a cure as well as a preventative. A reader from Canada has a novel way of handling tomato cages. The Fielders of Agincourt, Ontario make them from hog fencing, that's conventional. But they use small mesh with "harvesting windows" in random locations, and they make them in semi-circular halves. Joining the halves gives them tomato cages during the summer season, and the halves are good as supports for tunnels in the early and late season. They store compactly during the winter, too.