A toast to Lyric!

[beac]

:toast:

A MILK toast, that is.


Lyric, I've mentioned before in various posts how your milk bath tip saved my garden this year, but I wanted to post this special thanks for sharing your grandmother's secret with us and make sure you knew how helpful it's been in a previously frustrating gardening year. It's an absolute miracle. It brought my squash and zucchini back from the brink of death. My peppers are growing big and healthy and I've just eaten my first tasty cherry tomatoes. I'm using it on everything, including my tomato rootings that are not flowering yet (don't tell grandma...) but still LOVE their milk!-- This evening will be my third "bathing" of the season.

So cheers to you, Lyric, sharer of wisdom and savior of struggling veggies!

[amerikat]

1. We are preparing a milk bath for the effeced plants in our

community garden. Rain for the last 2 days have pushed back the application.
But we should be ready to spray tomorrow. We are being cautious and will only spray
some sections and wait to see the results.

I knew about this technique from DU. The woman doing the spraying got it from some
other garden forum.

If you do a google search for milk bath.......goes right to DU post from Lyric.

Bravo.

[beac]

2. I've been following Lyric's method of "bathing" only the roots (i.e. pouring the

milk water on the soil), but I have since read about spraying the leaves too to prevent mildew, etc.

Will be interested to hear how it does for you! :hi:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. I want to chime in too!

We had a wet, cold spring and most of my garden was drowning, little growth and sickly yellow. Within 24 hours of spraying the milk PLUS a generous pinch of epsom salts and they were markedly greener. They are now dark green and going gangbusters.
:applause: