what's going on everyone welcome back to the podcast today we're talking about

neem oil we've talked about it before I want to give you some quick recipes

that you can use whether you're dealing with a problem that's just about to

happen you see it's starting in the garden or you see a problem that you've

been battling for a while and you want a stronger recipe that will actually

defeat it over time the thing we're going to talk about today with neem is

actually a disease it's not a pest a lot of the times it's going to hit those

soft-bodied insects in the garden specifically things that have a caterpillar

like larval form but in this case we're talking about neem oil and powdery

mildew which we've done some research we've seen a couple studies out there

that are reporting pretty good results like well above 90% effective as far as

removing powdery mildew spores or killing them off with the following recipe so

it's going to be a short episode I want to give you something that you can just

go use in the garden right now I've been dealing with crazy powdery mildew

this year to the point where you know I had some of the best looking pumpkin

plants that I've ever had and it's one of my first years growing pumpkins at a

bigger scale because I just have more space now

and then not two weeks later just decimated absolutely decimated by powdery

mildew really really unfortunate really sad to see so here's what we ended up

doing on the new squash that we have sewn in the garden

first if you see a little bit of powdery mildew showing up

here's a preventative solution this ends up being about

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