A SAFE, NO-COST FRUIT AND BERRY FUNGICIDE
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Step 2: Treat the trees and shrubs with undiluted urine
again in the spring, before the buds open. Be sure
to spray the earth beneath the plants, as well.
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Step 3: Three weeks after the buds have opened, treat the
patch or orchard with a solution of four parts water to one
part urine. This procedure should be repeated whenever you
notice signs of a developing infection.
CURATIVE TREATMENT
Spray the affected bushes or trees with a four-to-one
solution of water and urine as soon as signs of fungal
attack appear. (In critical cases, I've used a two-to-one
solution, and achieved excellent results with no evident
burning of leaves.)
Urine can be stored in plastic pails or tanks. When it's
kept in such containers over a period of time, occasional
stirring will render the liquid all but odorless. Some of
the nitrogen in the urine will escape during storage,
unless you add a small quantity of material that's rich in
carbon content (two excellent candidates are dry leaves and
chopped straw) to the pail before any fermentation takes
place.
In short, human urine (which, if from a healthy individual,
is pretty much sterile) should be of real value to backyard
fruit and berry growers. To quote the Hen?y Double
day Research Association Newsletter, "This easiest
of all remedies ... should attack only the types of fungi
which produce ascospores or conidia, but it is worth using
it freely and observing results. . . ."
There's a readily accessible and effective solution to
the problems of orchard mildew and scab.
EDITOR'S NOTE. Celine Caron is the coauthor, with
lean Richard, of Fruits et petits fruits: Guide
pratique de production agriculture ecologique, a fruit-
and berrygrowing manual that was published in
Quebec, Canada in 1981.
We want to note that MOTHER's staffers have
not yet tested Caron's remedy ... and that it
should be considered an experimental treatment and used
sparingly on your crops until you're confident of its
safety and effectiveness.
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