Speaking of chamomile tea
chamomile will flower til frost, but when I shear it to get the flowers for
making tea the rest dies off on me and then doesn't come back til next year?
Amy of M.G.
Kevin Chisholm wrote:
Kevin
I am interested in your implication that failures in rooting in
difficult subjects may be due to pathogens, rather than lack of auxins.
Two possibilities occur to me in connection with this for people who do
not like to use what Cyndie calls 'cides.
The first is sulphur powder (though I admit this would probably be
ineffective if the attacker is bacterial) or watering the soil with
camomile tea or other common organic damping-off remedies and the other
is the possibility of introducing one of these new cultures of
protective soil fungi into the propagating mix. In NZ, the only one we
can get is a culture of Trichoderm species, but I understand they are
both territorial and aggressive and might be able to ward of any harmful
organisms. In the States though, I gather, the available selection is
much wider. What do the people who handle such products think?
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan
Wainuiomata,
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
