How To Elimate Fungus From Your Plants

Arm & Hammer Baking Soda and Wesson Corn Oil.

To prevent fungal diseases like black spot and powdery mildew, mix one teaspoon Arm & Hammer
Baking Soda and five drops Wesson Corn Oil in one quart water. Fill a trigger-spray bottle with the
mixture and spray directly on the leaves of roses, houseplants, and cucurbit crops. Apply once a
week for approximately two months. Reapply after rain. The USDA has approved baking soda as a
fungicide.
Arm & Hammer Baking Soda and Wesson Corn Oil.
To kill the rhi-zoctonia fungi that cause brownpatch, mix one tablespoon Arm & Hammer Baking
Soda, one tablespoon Wesson Corn Oil, and one gallon water. Spray a light mist of the solution on
your lawn, in addition to correcting any drainage problems and checking to make sure your fertilizer
does not contain excess nitrogen. Consider aerating your lawn and adding a half-inch layer of
compost. Compost contains the microbe trichoderma, which feeds on the rhizoctonia fungi.
Cascade.
To avoid spreading fungal diseases when transplanting seedlings or plants into pots, clean pots and
flats thoroughly by soaking them for ten minutes in a bathtub filled with warm water and one
tablespoon Cascade dishwashing powder, then scrubbing the pots in the solution with a stiff brush.
Rinse clean and let the pots dry thoroughly in the sun.
Clorox.
Sterilize your pruning tools with a mixture of three-quarters cup Clorox Bleach in a gallon of water
after each use to avoid spreading fungal diseases. Dip your pruning equipment into the disinfectant
solution between cuts or at least between plants. When finished, soak the pruning shears in the
solution for one hour, then rinse clean and dry.
Glad Trash Bags.
To get rid of the fungi causing rust spots on the leaves of geraniums, place the geranium plant inside
a Glad Trash Bag, and set outside in the full sunlight for a few hours. The temperature inside the bag
will quickly reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit, killing the fungi.
Grandma's Molasses.
Fight fungal diseases by dissolving one cup Grandma's Molasses in one gallon warm water in a
bucket. Fill a trigger-spray bottle, small pressure sprayer, or pump sprayer with the solution and
spray infected plants. The plants quickly absorb the molasses, which contains sugar to feed the
plants and sulfur to kill the fungi.
Hydrogen Peroxide.
To prevent damping-off from killing seedlings, spray the affected part of the plants with a mixture of
equal parts hydrogen peroxide and water.

Jell-0.
Fight off fungal diseases by adding one teaspoon powdered Jell-0 to the soil of houseplants and
covering the Jell-0 with a light coat of soil. The gelatin helps the plants retain water, the nitrogen in
Jell-0 enhances plant growth, and the sugar feeds the microbes in the soil, producing more nutrients
for the plant.
Listerine.
To avoid spreading fungal diseases, sterilize your pruning tools with Listerine after each use. In a
bucket, mix one cup Listerine per gallon of water, and dip your pruning equipment into the
antiseptic solution between cuts or at least between plants. When finished, soak the pruning shears
in the solution for one hour, then rinse clean and dry.
McCormick Ground Cinnamon.
Fight mold, mildew, and mushrooms around peonies by lightly dusting McCormick Ground
Cinnamon around each plant. Cinnamon contains a natural fungicide-ortho-methoxycinnamaldehye-that prevents the growth of fungi.
Purell.
Disinfect pruning tools by coating the blades with Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer. The ethyl alcohol in
Purell kills bacteria and fungi.
Reynolds Wrap.
Deter fungal diseases on squash or tomato plants by spreading sheets of Reynolds Wrap as mulch on
the soil bed surrounding the plants. Check the plants daily to make sure the aluminum foil is not
reflecting too much light back onto the plant, burning it.
Smirnoff Vodka.
Sterilize your pruning tools after each use with a mixture of two cups Smirnoff Vodka per gallon of
water to avoid spreading fungal diseases. Dip your pruning tools into the alcohol solution between
cuts or at least between plants. When finished, soak the pruning shears in the solution for one hour,

then rinse clean and dry.

Star Olive Oil and Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap.
Prevent fungal diseases from attacking shiny-leaved fruit trees, vegetables, and flowers by mixing
one teaspoon Star Olive Oil, one teaspoon Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap, and one gallon water in a
bucket. Fill a trigger-spray bottle, small pressure sprayer, or pump sprayer with the solution and
spray a fine mist on plant leaves early every morning for a week, then once a week, then once a
month. Do not use this oil spray when the temperature goes below 32 degrees or above 85 degrees
Fahrenheit. Before treating the entire plant, test this oil formula on one of the plant's leaves and
wait one day to make certain it doesn't burn the leaf.
Tabasco Pepper Sauce, McCormick Garlic Powder, and Ivory Dish washing Liquid.
Mix one-half teaspoon Tabasco Pepper Sauce, one-half teaspoon McCormick Garlic Powder, one
drop Ivory
Dishwashing Liquid, and two cups water in a sixteen-ounce trigger-spray bottle. Lightly mist any
plants evidencing early symptoms of fungal disease .
In 1993, Montana chemists Don and Andrea Stierle found an alternative source for taxol, an
expensive cancer-fighting chem ical derived from yew trees. The source? A common unnamed tree
fungus that produces taxol in minuscule quantities. Andrea named the fungus Taxomyces andreanae,
and the University of
Montana licensed it to Cytoclonal Pharmaceutics in Texas, which subsequently licensed it to BristolMyers Squibb. The chemical giant has yet to figure out how to trigger the fungus to mass produce
taxol.
Wood ear, a tree fungus used in making moo shu pork, is purportedly a great blood thinner.
The rich topsoil in California's San Joaquin Valley harbors a fungus, Coccidioides immitis, whose
dustborne microscopic spores cause 'valley fever,' a disease known to doctors as coccidioidomycosis.
For five years before 1990, doctors reported an average of 450 cases a year. That number tripled to
1,208 in 1991. Two years later, the number skyrocketed to 4,541, with more than fifty estimated
deaths-the worst epidemic of valley fever ever recorded.
No one seems to know the origins of the phrase 'There's a fungus among us.'
A specimen of the fungus Armillaria ostoyae, originating from a single fertilized spore, covers some
2,200 acres in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, making it the largest organism in the
world.
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The mushroom is a fungus.