I had excellent results battling a rapid spreading mold disease in my seedlings this spring using a potassium bicarbonate based product. The following is a short portable document file (pdf) on using potassium bicarbonate as a fungicide. http://www.betriebsmittelliste.ch/fi...te_organic.pdf
"Sodium bicarbonate is okay, but it's not as good,"
https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/viewhtml.php?id=126
Additionally, I now am adding neem meal to my potting mix to discourage insects that could spread diseases from using the medium as a breeding ground to multiply in .
Dutch
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Last edited by Dutch; May 8, 2018 at 11:28 PM.
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