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Old March 7, 2017   #11
GrowingCoastal
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Originally Posted by KarenO View Post
Every spring I used to wipe down the inside of my greenhouse and benches with dilute bleach rinse with a spray of plain water and let dry.
A clean greenhouse is a happy greenhouse
If you have had fungal problems like damping off, powdery mildew, grey mold etc. it`s a good idea I think.

KarenO
I think so too, Karen, it is only common sense.

What do you make of the below on powdery mildew ? Seems a reputable source.
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these are obligate pathogens, thus they need living host plant tissue to survive (they cannot live in diseased crop debris over winter).
from here http://livegpath.cals.cornell.edu/ga...w-on-tomatoes/
in the paragraph above the image of a mildewed tomato plant.

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