Bordeaux Mixture - A Reminder

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  1. Scrungee

    Scrungee Well known for it

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    Saw it for sale in a garden centre this morning and here it online http://www.greenfingers.com/superst...T1199D&co=fr&gclid=COSewszXhbwCFUnjwgodzDMA4w

    And it's clearly being sold as a fungicide

     
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    Saw loads of these beside the seed spuds at Wyevale. My guess is that it's copper based Bordeaux Mixture simply re-badged as Vitax 'copper tonic' to get around any ban on copper based fungicides (like has already been done with sulphur).

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    • noisette47

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      It's still very much on sale here as Bouille Bordelaise (Bordeaux Mixture)! There'd be another revolution if Brussels tries to ban it in France:paladin: My fruit trees are a beautiful shade of blue:)
       
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