Milk, the mildew cure?

[Wren]

I read about this last year, and this year i am going to give it a try in ernest. I had bad trouble with mildew on my outside courgettes last year and this year i thought i would try twice weekly of this 1 part milk to 10 parts water and milk treatment to all my squash an cucumber plants in the hope it will keep things healthy. All my plants are well spaced an not water stressed so i have done everything i can without resorting to chemicals. I am also going to give my tom's an tatties the odd spray or two with it to see if it works as a general anti viral .

A link for you by example but if you google 'milk and mildew' you get loads o results.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...nt-mildew.html

Has anyone else tried milk as a preventative mildew spray?

Wren

edited to change the link that didn't work.

[kiwirach]

i have used diluted milk for black spot on roses, altho i'm still new to it and havent done it long enough to say it definately gets rid of it. i believe theres something in the milk that neutralises the 'whatevers' in the black spot.
i've sprayed twice this year so far and the rose is looking ok....i'm going to spray again today when i go to the allotment.
because the rose is on my allotment, i dont want to use chemicals, so am hoping this will work.
i cant remember where i read the info, so unfortunately i cant link it in....i'll try and remember, cos i seem to remember it came from a list of natural products for fighting plant diseases.

[scarey55]

That's really interesting Wren, thank you for pointing it out. I have a huge mildew problem and milk seems a bit less drastic than some of the other treatments available.

[Maximillian]

I've heard about this too. I think you use skimmed milk so it doesn't smell from the fat in the cream

[Topcat36]

Oh this is interesting, i have mildew on one of my honeysuckles, dont want to use chemicals will look into this more.