spray recommendations 67

Mike,

It's a long story but it started out with finding a solution to keep my slate floors clean and snowballed from there. After the results I got from the slate floor I started looking into what Oxiclean is and what's in it. Oxiclean is sodium percarbonate which is also called oxygen bleach. There isn't much info on the web about it's effectiveness as a fungicide but there is much info on it's effectiveness as a laundry detergent and a wood cleaner. It's the wood cleaner stuff that lead me to find out that it's a great fungus remover, has the same pH as Bordeaux Mixture, is safe for the septic , plants ,and is a safe wine equiptment cleaner. It's great for any organic stains like wine and coffee. It also is advertised as a good grout cleaner so that's why I used it on stone. It's not advertised as a stone cleaner but it does a great job. Anyway I used my 100 vine vineyard to experiment last year and was very pleased with the results. I think it's better than pure hydrogen peroxide ( Oxidate ) becuase of the high pH residue ( Soda Ash ) that's left on the leaves to act as a protectant. I also was excited about the ability to spray in the rain because you never know when you'll get those 7 day rain fall and you need to get something on the leaves. What's better than sparaying something that will give you a clean slate until you can get some protection on them. Also I used Oxiclean on strawberries to keep them from premature rotting and it worked great so I thought it might have some usefulness with bunch rot. So that's basically the gist of it.

Bob

. Mike McGeough