November 5, 2024

VIDEO: How We Prevent Powdery Mildew on Our Squash and Cucumbers


Preventing is better than reacting. This is especially true to diseases in the garden. Powdery mildew can cause many issues with cucumbers and squash, and so controling it as well as preventing it is advised. In today’s episode we will talk about one simple method to controlling it that we use in the garden, and that is using a baking soda spray.

24 thoughts on “VIDEO: How We Prevent Powdery Mildew on Our Squash and Cucumbers

  1. I just sprayed my garden with Neem oil this evening before the sunset. It's been too humid here the last few days and we've got a lot of rain so I was concerned we'd have a mildew breakout so I used neem oil to prevent it before it might happen. I hope it's ok to use neem oil?

  2. My cucumber and squash leaves were covered! They were basically covered over night and it got way ahead of me. My first garden in 41 years, and I've never seen this before in my garden years ago. I tried baking soda, but it was just too late and I gave up. I will be on top of it next year!

  3. Can you talk about downy mildew? Once the temps cooled down, all my basils were affected. I saw in a different video that it’s just all over in the air in the East Coast.

    The only solutions offered were getting resistant cultivars and bringing the plants in on humid nights. Any help would be appreciated!

  4. Already lost my fall cucumbers because of random frost night, did use veil though. Will see how fall garlics end up forming if theres 30 days needed for growth and frost night are so random. Not too easy gardening here in Finland at 60° north either O_o

  5. Ugh! I wish you posted this video sooner!!! My cukes and squash are almost toast! Neem oil hasn't kept up with it. Will post back if this works.

    Also, there's white fuzzy mildew on the underside of my squash leaves… soooo yeaaah

  6. So what soil conditions accelerate the initial spread of the mildew? Too damp of soils and not letting them dry between watering? Lack of fertilizer and nutrients? Or?

    Thanks

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