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Oz

There is a huge corn meal factory near me.
A friend says he is going to bring some.
It is in powder/dust form.
Will it work as a soil treatment for powdery mildew?
lol,,i did a google on PM and they sell it at Ebay.....

5/5/2005 8:11:21 AM

Dillsburg, PA

I put this in my garden. I could be wrong but it should works as well as cornmeal. It will help some against PM but you will need other treatments.

5/5/2005 8:17:50 AM

Waquoit Mass

worms like it

5/5/2005 9:51:18 AM

Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

What else likes it? Does it attract rodents?

5/5/2005 10:09:31 AM

Utah

don't be throwing it around while your smoking ...

5/5/2005 10:50:18 AM

Montoursville, PA

Corn Meal is a natural fungal resist product when applied with other good manures, composts and soil building practices. It brings with it about 1% Nitrogen but that is slow release Nitrogen because it is in the complex form. I use 20 lbs. per 1000 sq. ft. per year. If I use little or no fungicide I drop back, to ten pounds per year.

As far as I know reasonalbe use more or less will not hurt any patch ballances.

5/5/2005 11:28:37 AM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

If you can get corn gluten meal, the byproduct of ethanol production, that may be even better. It is a proven pre-emergence herbicide as well as a 10% nitrogen fetrilizer. I get it at a local farm supply store where it is sold as feed in 50 lb. bags for around $0.22 per pound. As far as corn meal is concerned,when we were selling bait many years ago we added it to our worm bedding for food. If it is good for your worms, it should be good for your soil.

5/6/2005 9:26:19 AM

C N Y

according to the book "Dear Dirt Doctor",
corn meal and corn gluten or corn gluten meal are very different in their
uses.
corn meal=fungicide and general good soil amendment at 20 lbs. per 1000 square feet. i am doing this along with heavy doses of horse manure and dried molasses. so there you go.

on the other hand, corn gluten or corn gluten meal, i can never remember if the 'meal' title is attached in both cases, lol, is a pre-emergent herbicide which affects unsprouted
dicots, or single-leaved grasses and such, but, according
to one of the Pumpkin Knowledge Gods on this site,
does not affect SPROUTED DICOTS (two cotyledons),
which are our pumpkin plants. so, you can use the powdered corn or corn meal with no worries that i can see at 20 lbs per 1000 sq. ft.
order up that book while yer at it; it is very enlightening,
and i will soon see if i have made the right choice by going All-Natural. i would stay away from corn gluten or corn gluten meal until i was satisfied that it works the
way i want it to, AND allows the formation of secondary vine roots........eric

5/6/2005 5:28:31 PM

Montoursville, PA

Until proven, by others, beyond a shadow, of a doubt "corn gluton" will not be in my pumpkin patch.

I have used corn gluton, in in other general gardening and on my lawn, per the suggested instructions, of the sellers. I have not been impressed with anything about it. It is not something I believe any, of you, will ever write home about.

After using it you are still going, to have, to hoe or mulch, to get or prevent the significant weeds it will not control.

Furthermore if you do not time its use perfectly you will be offering your ranting and raving off, to the races weeds, a ten percent nitrogen cocktail. Mercy I don't think much, of Corn Gluten. You make up your own minds.

5/6/2005 8:52:17 PM