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Does cinnamon really work to prevent mold on seeds?

JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
in Problem solving
I have read that sprinkling cinnamon on the soil of seed plantings can help prevent dampening off? Anyone do this or is it just another “old wives tail” with no real proof that it is beneficial?
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I've seen lots of articles on it so it must be worth experimenting altho, as you're in France, you can probably get a bottle of purin de prêle at you local garden centre and that will see off mould in your compost as well as prevent things like peach leaf curl and mildew.
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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited February 2023
    As powder or cooked solution?

    According to Google Translate, "purin de prele" is horsetail manure.  One could make it in England like lovage manure.  Perhaps.

    Worth an experiment by someone cursed with the problems of both horsetail and damping off, and plenty of spare time. 
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's supposed to have medicinal antifungal properties so maybe it works on plants too. Better than ruining an apple tart with it anyway.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Remember that natural cures are chemicals too.  Often unknown and in unknown amounts.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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