Have you heard of EM? EM is what I would use if I had your problem. I read the book by Dr. Teruo Higa and essentially EM is friendly bacteria that does battle with the bad bacteria. He wrote that once the friendly ones win the battle or outnumber the bad, the bad turns to good. Similarly, I would use probiotics for my intestinal tract when I'm having tummy pains. Some farmers have been able to reduce their use of fertilizers, pesticides, etc. in under 3 years for their crops in Japan. They also use it as an anti-pollutant and disinfectant. In our state, they were using it at the zoo to dissolve the animal wastes faster (and less smelly) and at hotels to keep the waterfalls' water cleaner without using chemicals. I don't know if they were successful because I haven't followed up on this. Some people that grow things,though, were reporting bountiful harvests and larger fruits and flowers. I talked to the distributor and they told me that they encouraged growers to also use some type of seaweed mix fertilizer too with the EM. Sorry I got off on another tangent.
Anyway, you can do a search on Dr. Higa and EM. I don't think he has a website but there are others writing about it. On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Dianne France <[email protected]> wrote: > When we notice that we have a bacteria attacking our plants my first > thought was to grab the cs. It probably would really help the plant but > what are the side effects of using silver in the garden. Does it eventually > end up in the soil and would it kill the beneficial bacteria that the plants > need? If it does how long would the effects of the silver in the soil last? > > I'm noticing that some of the heirloom seed/plants have more problems with > disease than the other seeds I have planted. > > Dianne >
