Firstly - what are you treating that needs a fungicide?

And secondly, this chemical is not available to the home gardener in the EU and is only allowed to be applied commercially by certified workers. Maybe that might give you pause for thought about using it in your home garden.

What product to use is your choice. There are both organics fungicides like copper and sulfa and synthetics like Daconil.

But regardless of which you choose, fungicides are a preventative only if applied from 1st day of plant out and regularly thereafter. Once the plants are exposed they are just a slow-down control at best, not a cure.

In studies Daconil has proven to be the most effective preventative but only when used prior to exposure. Once infected their control abilities, especially when alternated, are about the same.

We use Daconil on our commercial commercial grown plants but not on the family home crop as our home gardens are as organic as possible. So there we use Soap Shield and lime-sulfur spray.

Dave

I agree with Dave that it is the choice of the individual about the pesticides (insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc.) they use. HOWEVER....

....I believe that the person should be fully informed before making those kinds of choices! Zak, I very strongly suggest that you do some careful research on the toxicity of chlorothalonil (the active ingredient in Daconil products) before using it.

Even the attached Wikipedia article will offer some information, but you should do more reading than that. Do you have a family, pets?

It's considered an excellent wood preservative because it doesn't stain the wood and isn't supposed to leach out. I brushed it on the bottom cut ends of 6X6 fir ramada posts I just mounted and so finally got to use the bottle of the stuff I bought in a moment of weakness. Lumber preservative on food plants has that old EWWW factor, no?

thanks alot for the advice and comments i think i wil just stick with the organic route like i always have ,,, another question though , organic pesticides any favorites out there ?

is just neem oil the way to go ?

this years garden includes , 3 types of tomats , red cabbage , cucumbers , hot peppers sun flowers and herbs .

thanks again

zak