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Originally Posted by RayR
Whatever you do, don't use anti-bacterial dish soap. 
Seventh Generation, Green Works and Murphy's Oil Soap have all been mentioned before here on TV as acceptable natural vegetable based soaps to use as spreader-stickers. You definitely don't want to use "detergents".
Molasses would probably be better since it also provides a food source for the bacteria and it provides some mild nutrient value to the plant. |
I've always used the old original Dawn dish soap.
It doesn't say anything about being anti-bacterial on the label. It does say that the surfactants are biodegradable, though it doesn't say what exactly they are. It also says that it's phosphate-free.
The one reservation I have about molasses is that I don't want my plants to be more tasty than they already are for the wildlife that raids my garden every night!
Even with all the chicken wire reinforced pickets and deer netting that surounds my garden, the critters that can scale the fencing still get in an dine on the ripening fruits.
It'd be funny if it wasn't such a big problem!