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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Neem for Powdery Mildew

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

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

0:16.9

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

0:20.2

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

0:25.4

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

0:29.0

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

0:34.6

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

0:40.7

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

0:44.8

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

0:48.5

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

0:53.6

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

0:58.0

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

1:04.0

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

1:08.4

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

1:11.4

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

1:15.3

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

1:19.6

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

1:23.3

bigger scale because I just have more space now

1:26.0

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

1:30.4

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

1:34.9

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

1:38.9

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

1:43.6

here's a preventative solution this ends up being about

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