Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Anton on June 06, 2011, 10:17
-
Last year I sprayed my tomato plants weekly with baking soda and as it is now started to become hot and muggy here (rain after two months of virtually no rain) I thought I had better start the treatment again. But I've forgotten what the dosage is, if any could be kind enough to remind me. I've also been cutting off and destroying browning leaves, etc. Should I keep doing this?
Anton
-
I've just looked and my spray contains 1 litre. How much baking powder should I put in that do you think?
Anton
-
A quick search for baking powder brings up this thread:
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=49925.0
-
Thanks a lot, Yorkie, I will have to translate that into litres now.
Anton
-
One imperial (UK) gallon = 4.546 litres.
One US gallon (which Trillium might be using) = 5.455 litres.
:)
-
Baking powder :unsure:
Why?
-
Is it baking soda or baking powder? Both are mentioned and they are quite different things.
-
Why spray the toms with it?
Am i missing out on something?
Sorry, just read the link (Blight) ;)
-
Baking Powder? Why do this? Epsom salts on the ground to help combat Magnesium defficiency and maybe the uptake of trace elements but why Baking Powder?
-
Try reading the link that Yorkie gave.
-
Read the link in Yorkie's post.
It's blight related ;)
You beat me to it D.D. :lol:
-
So it is baking soda and not baking powder then?
-
One imperial (UK) gallon = 4.546 litres.
One US gallon (which Trillium might be using) = 5.455 litres.
:)
er.... one US gallon is actually 3.785 litres is it not!
-
One imperial (UK) gallon = 4.546 litres.
One US gallon (which Trillium might be using) = 5.455 litres.
:)
er.... one US gallon is actually 3.785 litres is it not!
Hm, on the converter I used a US gallon is 1.2 imperial (UK) gallons. We'd better find out which kind of gallon Trillium would be using in Canada and also confirm that she would use baking soda. Powder was mentioned, I believe incorrectly, and this myth is being perpetuated by following questioners....
-
er.... one US gallon is actually 3.785 litres is it not!
Yes but we're in the UK, not the US :tongue2:
-
er.... one US gallon is actually 3.785 litres is it not!
Yes but we're in the UK, not the US :tongue2:
But Trillium, who posted the original recipe, is in Canada. ::)
-
er.... one US gallon is actually 3.785 litres is it not!
Yes but we're in the UK, not the US
But Trillium, who posted the original recipe, is in Canada.
I know but it's a UK recipe thats required ;)
-
er.... one US gallon is actually 3.785 litres is it not!
Yes but we're in the UK, not the US
But Trillium, who posted the original recipe, is in Canada.
I know but it's a UK recipe thats required ;)
Its Belgian actually! :lol: But the gallons were originally quoted in Canada. :D
-
er.... one US gallon is actually 3.785 litres is it not!
Yes but we're in the UK, not the US
But Trillium, who posted the original recipe, is in Canada.
I know but it's a UK recipe thats required
Its Belgian actually! But the gallons were originally quoted in Canada.
:tongue2: :lol: :lol: :lol:
-
Trilliums original post only mentions baking soda.....bicarbonate of soda, and NOT baking powder :)
-
Trilliums original post only mentions baking soda.....bicarbonate of soda, and NOT baking powder :)
This is what I understood to be the case and a rather important difference too. :)
-
One imperial (UK) gallon = 4.546 litres.
One US gallon (which Trillium might be using) = 5.455 litres.:)
er.... one US gallon is actually 3.785 litres is it not!
Hm, on the converter I used a US gallon is 1.2 imperial (UK) gallons.
I see how the misunderstanding has arisen - in fact UK gallon is 1.2 US gallons (per the US pint being 16 fluid ounces rather than our 20 fluid ounces) giving the figures of approx 4.55 and 3.78 I quoted.
Easily done said he who once made a bit of a boo-boo in his 'back of a fag packet' calculation when obtaining diesel in a US port......... Ahem. :wacko:
-
So they have a bigger gallon but a smaller pint? Well how confusing is that?! :wacko:
-
So they have a bigger gallon but a smaller pint? Well how confusing is that?! :wacko:
No, the US have a smaller gallon at 3.78 litres rather than our 4.55 litres in proportion with their smaller pint. ie a gallon is 8 x 16 fl oz instead of Imperial 8 x 20 fl oz.
-
:wacko: