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    #2
    chainsawman
    Registered Users Posts: 457 ✭✭chainsawman


    johngalway wrote: »
    Opportunities to spray today and tomorrow.

    http://www.met.ie/forecasts/warnings.asp[/QUOTE]


    Opportunities to spray ? What is that ?

    Novice Gardener, Me !!!!:D


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    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    chainsawman wrote: »
    johngalway wrote: »
    Opportunities to spray today and tomorrow.

    http://www.met.ie/forecasts/warnings.asp[/QUOTE]


    Opportunities to spray ? What is that ?

    Novice Gardener, Me !!!!:D

    It means the weather conditions will be right for spraying yer spuds with the likes of Dithane 945 (as I use) or A.N. Other type of blight spray, basically that the weather will be dry and your spray won't be washed off. Or at least that's how I understand it.


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    chainsawman
    Registered Users Posts: 457 ✭✭chainsawman


    johngalway wrote: »
    chainsawman wrote: »

    It means the weather conditions will be right for spraying yer spuds with the likes of Dithane 945 (as I use) or A.N. Other type of blight spray, basically that the weather will be dry and your spray won't be washed off. Or at least that's how I understand it.

    Thanks Johngalway, I bought four in one seed(lawn&weed killer) from B & Q last week... Do youthink I should spread those seed out this evening ?


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    radiat
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭radiat


    JohnGalway, I've been looking for blight spray (dithane 90 and bluestone) and have been told there banned and no longer available?
    I looked in Woodies and a garden centre close to my house. What's the story? are there alternatives or where could i get some.


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    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    chainsawman wrote: »
    johngalway wrote: »

    Thanks Johngalway, I bought four in one seed(lawn&weed killer) from B & Q last week... Do youthink I should spread those seed out this evening ?

    I haven't a clue about lawns.
    radiat wrote: »
    JohnGalway, I've been looking for blight spray (dithane 90 and bluestone) and have been told there banned and no longer available?
    I looked in Woodies and a garden centre close to my house. What's the story? are there alternatives or where could i get some.

    It's still on sale over this side of the country. I bought mine in Woodies, local merchants from farm merchants to builders providers have it on sale.

    Don't think it's banned, I think it had to switch over to a new license.


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    radiat
    Registered Users Posts: 151 ✭✭radiat


    thanks JohnGalway.

    Does anyone know where you can get it around Tallaght?


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    Jim Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭Jim Martin


    You can very easily make a 'tea' out of horsetail if it grows near you - just stick it in water & wait a month, then mix the resulting liquid (tea) 1 to 10 ratio in water & spray onto potato leaves (underneath as well!). You can make the mixture more quickly by boiling it rather than waiting a month! It has a dreadful smell when it's ready - maybe that's what scares the blight away! I think you have to repeat spraying every 3 days when blight conditions are prevalent.


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