What is up everyone? Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to talk about

Downey Mildew. I've talked about powdery mildew before. I've talked about some other diseases as well some other pests and I want to start rounding out some of the other diseases

that you'll likely find in the garden because if we can you know stop these

diseases before they start then really they're not a problem in the garden and you can have amazing

harvests, easier time in the garden more fun because you're not just

sitting there battling things like powdery mildew or downy mildew and overall you just have a better experience so hopefully

this is going to be an informative episode for you on how to get rid of that downy mildew.

Now the real question is what is it right because I know a lot of us have heard of powdery

mildew and what is downy mildew though so if you live in a humid climate you have

probably experienced or battle downy mildew in the garden.

It really likes wet surroundings.

It's a fungal mold and it lives in soil and then later colonizes the leaves of plants,

very similar to how powdery mildew does it right so there are a few

different variations and these variations prefer different plants the ones that you

need to watch out for are pironospora and plasmo para species.

Now of course on an audio podcast, it doesn't really matter what they're named.

What you're looking for is that life cycle. Now we talk about life

cycle a lot when it comes to pests but it's also applicable to a disease because these are

also living organisms and if we can disrupt them at some point

in their life cycle then we're going to have a good shot at actually removing them from the

soil or the plants right so in most gardens downey Mildew is going to begin as a fungal

spore in the soil. These are wind-blown spores, so it's nearly impossible to

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