Comments on: Blight…. http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/08/10/blight/ Ideas, hints and tips to help you live a little bit more Green! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Sarah http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/08/10/blight/#comment-51 Sarah Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:35:37 +0000 http://ethicstrading.com/blog/?p=22#comment-51 Ah right, I don't have any growing here. But apparently dried horsetail is excellent to use as a washing up scrubber - like those scourer backed sponges. Natural pan scrub! Sarah Ah right, I don’t have any growing here. But apparently dried horsetail is excellent to use as a washing up scrubber - like those scourer backed sponges. Natural pan scrub!
Sarah

]]> By: Mrs Green http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/08/10/blight/#comment-50 Mrs Green Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:06:30 +0000 http://ethicstrading.com/blog/?p=22#comment-50 No, you don't want it in your garden. But if it's there and you have no choice, it's good to find something positive to say about it :D Horsetail is antifungal and we use the following recipe which is on my other, sadly neglected and out of date blog: http://littlegreenblog.com/2008/01/15/horsetail-for-potato-blight/ No, you don’t want it in your garden. But if it’s there and you have no choice, it’s good to find something positive to say about it :D Horsetail is antifungal and we use the following recipe which is on my other, sadly neglected and out of date blog:
http://littlegreenblog.com/2008/01/15/horsetail-for-potato-blight/

]]> By: Sarah http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/08/10/blight/#comment-49 Sarah Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:26:51 +0000 http://ethicstrading.com/blog/?p=22#comment-49 Horsetail? How does that help preserve the spuds? And it's a pervasive weed and I really don't want it in my garden! We did save most of the tubers but they won't store. That's not a huge problem as I'm not into long term spud storage anyway, just means we have to eat them a bit faster. I think I needs me one of them incinerator bin thingys. Sarah Horsetail? How does that help preserve the spuds? And it’s a pervasive weed and I really don’t want it in my garden! We did save most of the tubers but they won’t store. That’s not a huge problem as I’m not into long term spud storage anyway, just means we have to eat them a bit faster.

I think I needs me one of them incinerator bin thingys.
Sarah

]]> By: Mrs Green http://ethicstrading.com/blog/2008/08/10/blight/#comment-48 Mrs Green Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:59:01 +0000 http://ethicstrading.com/blog/?p=22#comment-48 Ack! this is a bummer - sorry you had to endure this. Did you manage to save the crop itself? I, personally would burn the foliage and use the ash on the garden or add it to the compost heap - but this isn't based on any knowledge; it's just a hunch. For future reference, horsetail can arrest blight. We did this successfully and saved the entire crop :) Ack! this is a bummer - sorry you had to endure this. Did you manage to save the crop itself?

I, personally would burn the foliage and use the ash on the garden or add it to the compost heap - but this isn’t based on any knowledge; it’s just a hunch.

For future reference, horsetail can arrest blight. We did this successfully and saved the entire crop :)

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