These are my 2 main lawn scourges, Creeping Charlie and Powdery Mildew.
Charlie:It's been my nemesis for many years now. Lots of Borax solution did almost nothing. Charlie was the dominant green in my back yard last year when I finally gave up on "organic" means of it's control and used Scots Turf builder +2 which did the job. Some small amount has grown back from the years of seed it deposited. I'll try pulling it up wherever I see it unless it gets out of hand. Then It'll be back to the Scots.
Powdery Mildew:
This occurs only in the front lawn where there's lots more shade and the soil has had tons of tree debris mowed down into it.
I've read about milk as a treatment and baking soda as a preventative. Both are used in water sprayed on. The milk in a 1 to 10 mix and the baking soda, 1 tbsp to a gallon. I plan to try a combination of both. Wish me luck.
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The milk and baking soda solution seems to have done the job on the powdery mildew. There's still a little but that's where I didn't apply as much as elsewhere. We had a ton of rain within 24 hours of the application and I used skim milk. I wonder if there'd be any of the fungus left if I used whole milk and or had no rain so soon after?
POWDERY MILDEW
The 1-10 milk solution(I used skim milk) with 1 tbsp of baking soda per gallon in 2 separate applications worked in some areas but not in others, the parkway is the least corrected. That's where the trees are. I'm going to look for a potassium bicarbonate product. "Remedy" is supposed to be one. I found a few more links (one seems to be a canibus growers forum!).Here they are per my preference.
http://gardening.wsu.edu/column/10-01-00.html
http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/nonorganic/get-the-cure-for-powdery-mildew.html
http://www.gardenscure.com/420/plant-nursery/118561-powdery-mildew-info-cause-treatment.html
http://www.bayeradvanced.com/guides/disease?gclid=CMq2v9KahKICFU9V5wodQHnTF
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