A Natural Spray for Blight

[@cedarrockcabin3633]

My garden gets blight every year. I need to find the spot I saw horsetail not long ago. I did not know potatoes and tomatoes are related. I always learn so much from your videos, thank you!

[@simonbeverley4931]

Love the video' channel. Just need to give more tips about the spray gun, pump it up harder. Then adjust the spray head nozzle too that way you get fine spray. Cheers Beverley

[@echobeach8857]

I love your philosophy on weeds and weeding. I believe a lot more people would love gardening and have healthier gardens if they adopted that philosophy as well

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

I think so too Echo Beach.

[@Cronezonetarot]

Thanks for this, Terri. I must say when I was young gardeners used to recoil from horsetail because of its invasive nature, so how good to hear the other side of the story. I'd love to try it for black spot. Thank you once again for such an informative video.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

It certainly can be invasive!! However it does have its good points. Glad you found it interesting.

[@paultoner8789]

You have fantastic attitude to nature .I will try this on my own potatoes and hopefully it will work.I never use chemicals on my vegetables. Thank you for your very informative video

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Ir worked for my mine and I got a bumper crop. Good luck, make sure the "tea" is strong!

[@enquery]

I often leave a plant to grow just to see what it is, or does, or has to teach me. I left a wild lettuce go to flower just to be sitting in the garden one day to see a hummingbird gathering the fluff from the seed flowers. Most likely nesting material. What an amazing sight it was too. Blessings, Terri.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Beautiful story Maureen - just goes to show how everything is necessary - we don't always know why or how, observation and patience and tolerance can show us.

[@enquery]

@@DanusIrishHerbGarden Absolutely.

[@rosa-f4865]

Thank you for all that information I will remember that for my tomatoes and roses and look at the horsetail in a different light Blessing to you xx

[@jondecker2068]

Scientists have unlocked a dormant gene in chickens that gave the chickens tiny teeth that were in the shape of T-Rex teeth. Coincidental? Maybe, but very compelling. I don't usually grow potatoes but I do grow tomatoes so this video is of great importance to me. Thank you, Terri, for sharing.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

I think it may be true as I have always "known" - can't remember where from - that chickens are what happened to T-Rex as some dinosaurs became feathered and smaller😂

[@sandraeggerstedt5326]

Great information 👍

[@sailorgirl2017]

If you pump the sprayer before spraying it will produce a much better mist. When it dribbles out again, stop and pump it again.

[@KnitAdjacent-ln2rx]

Thank you so much for this video! This is a rare plant in my home state and I believe some of this is growing in my yard! I’m hoping to make sure my husband knows it’s beneficial and not to weed whack it!

[@irishmermaid4]

Very nice video, Terri! Thank you for showing the beauty and purpose of the horsetail. 💕🍀

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

You're welcome!

[@rosaleenkielty5866]

Thanks. Very informative video and I now look at horsetail with a new respect.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Good to hear!

[@Thebearcave1776]

What a great natural spray. I'll have to order some dried Horsetail to make the tea since our dry climate here in Colorado essentially would make it impossible to grow it here. I've never seen it in Colorado. I would love to have the spray available for my potatoes. Thanks for the tip!

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

You're welcome!

[@MrDerJohann]

Thank's for this Video, greattings from Germany

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

You're welcome Jan!

[@connydm729]

Hi Terry, thanks for your very inspirational vid, i have horsetail in my garden too and i love it....looks to me like little Trees....and very healthy....my garden isnt pristine...as i know and like how nature takes care of itself if we alow it.....love and greetings from Belgium, Conny 💖 💚 🍀

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

My garden is far from pristine too. I don't like weeding because they are my healing allies.. Horsetail was once a tree! Amazing isnt it.xx

[@deanablythe9394]

I like your thinking about gardening, with regard to not pulling so-called weeds out, I have recently learned that nature ensures that the earth is not left bare as this causes lots of problems with depleting the soil of nutrients, through sun, wind, and rain exposure and this has always been my experience if any ground is left bare before you know it something is growing. Thank you for sharing the benefits of Horsetail, not a plant I remember seeing, but it's one to look out for in damper-growing areas.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

You are right, that's how I live in companionship with creeping Buttercup - because she has a very important job! xx

[@ramyavanmaele9643]

Thank you ,I used hose tail with flowers to my flower decoration but now I know really what to do talk to you soon.

[@sharonsherwood8411]

Thank you, I hope to grow potatoes next year and will try this.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Good luck!

[@bredawhelton9589]

I’m glad I came across this plant this evening and now your video .. fabulous video Do you need to do this often to the potato plants ? I’ve sat no dig in washing baskets And there’s a blight warning today until Thursday . Slugs are eating my potato leaves so I’m using coffee grounds

[@Eire23JoP]

Really informative. Thoroughly enjoy your videos 💚🌀

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Thank you so much!

[@oceanluv88]

always good information, thank you.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

You're welcome!

[@loisbanks3614]

Lovely. Apparently they are good to eat too, and have nitrogen. What a cute puppy!

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Thank you. Just eat them when they are very young.

[@elisabethpalmer8633]

I collect it, dry it and take it every morning with other herbs as a tea to take out aluminium from my body from the engineering that goes on.

[@123uschie]

I am going to try the horse tail on the rust on the hollyhocks.

[@morningstarbedell5318]

I keep wanting to tidy the back yard and pull up the weeds as we’re taught to but the bees and butterflies enjoy them so they stay I do get rid of the foxtails as I have dogs love your untidy garden beds

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Thank you!

[@cherylnicole9578]

If you have abundant horsetail, consider drying it and selling it. Organic dried horsetail goes for $5-15 per ounce!

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Really! Who pays that kind of money??? I could be a millionaire with all that grows here😅

[@piolinmetsti2682]

Thank you Terri, can I use dry horsetail? because that's the only way I can get it.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Yes you can Piolin.

[@spoonnwithsunshinehomestead]

Can you use this spray on other vegetable gardens besides potatoes?

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

You could use it on tomatoes as they are in the same family as potatoes and can also suffer with blight.

[@marianfrances4959]

Lovely!😏🌹🇨🇦

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

🌷🌷🌷🌷

[@petrakleefeld5447]

If you mention the medicinal properties of horsetail, you should mention too that the variety you took for the tea is not for human use...no problem in the garden but drink just the good one yourself...btw I learned to make the horsetail tea by putting it into a pot with cold water and boiling it altogether, as the structure of the plant is pretty dense...good job you’re doing with the videos anyway 😊😘

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

This Horsetail is Equisetum arvense and is the medicinal Horsetail so it is safe for humans.

[@petrakleefeld5447]

Danu's Irish Herb Garden ... I still think that the horsetail you’re showing at the start of your vid is the marsh horsetail..as you said in damp ground...it is and different from the horsetail in your beds, which are the ‘good ‘ ones

[@laurapfeifer749]

I drink horsetail tea very often, so now Im worried

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Well take a break and go back to it next spring.

[@martinlong2804]

Can you eat horses tail, as like the nettle. Leave the weeds, there you friends.

[@DanusIrishHerbGarden]

Horsetail is full of silica - Equisetum arvense is the medicinal Horsetail and the only one suitable for humans. You would have to use VERY young stems to be able to digest them.