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  1. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    How I got rid of white mold on potatoes
    Potatoes, where the fungus appeared, chose, washed, dried and let go immediately into the consumption. The places on the wall and the shelf, which fungus took a fancy, wiped with a dry rag, and then bleached with a solution of lime. I cooked it for ordinary whitewash. This was in February last year, and in May I took out everything from the cellar.

    The shelves were washed and left in the courtyard in the sun, the preserves and pickles carried to the funerary, wiping first with a wet, and then with a dry towel. Vegetables, and there were few of them, also carried out of the cellar. A solution of lime whitewashed the ceiling, walls, floor (he had concrete) and left the room for the whole summer open. During whitewashing, particular attention was paid to corners and crevices. In the middle of August, she brought everything she needed to the cellar, preserving tare and pickles again with a towel. The fungus did not appear any more.

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  2. AVKRISTININ

    In autumn 2010 bought on the market 400 kg of potatoes with white tubers, very tasty. Having examined them well, they noticed numerous sores from the defeat of the tubers by a potato moth. The time is right for preparing the tubers and planting the potatoes. Can you plant such tubers, or is there a danger of bringing this malicious pest to your garden?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      Now you will not be surprised with the potato moths of truck farmers. This terrible pest gradually successfully mastered our kitchen gardens.
      What needs to be done in your situation? Selectively take dozens of the most affected tubers and cut them into several slices before using them for food and carefully examine the tracks of the caterpillars: whether the pupae can also be preserved in the moves. If there is both, the thing is bad. To plant such tubers is undesirable.
      But if there is no opportunity to purchase a new planting material, do so.
      Sort the tubers, choosing the least damaged ones for planting. Before planting tubers, it is better not to germinate. But to wake them up, put them on warming or light germination so that the sprouts are no more than 2-3 cm long. And immediately before planting, treat them with one of the preparations: Matador. Matador Grand, Matador Super. Nuprid, Tirana, Masterpiece. Potatoes need to be planted deeper - up to 15-17 cm, so that the small moth larvae do not reach the tubers and infect them. Potatoes for this also need to be spud. In addition, during the processing of potatoes against the Colorado potato beetle, butterflies and caterpillars of potato moths are destroyed.

      In July-August, when the potato tops are still green, it is necessary to continue treatment with the same drugs. With the yellowing and drying of the tops, the potatoes must be cleaned immediately, and after drying for several hours immediately lowered into the basement for storage. In no case should you leave potatoes in barns or under canopies, otherwise it is possible to infect it with flying moth butterflies.

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  3. Emma Pozhidaev Vologda

    Why are brown spots often found in the pulp of raw potatoes? I grow my potatoes, it is well kept all winter, and the spots do not disappear. Before cooking, I try to cut them, but it turns out a big waste. What's with the potatoes and is it not harmful to eat?

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    • Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

      Potato has a glandular patchiness. This non-infectious disease affects tubers grown on acidic soils that contain excess iron and aluminum and very little phosphorus. "Rust" the tubers begin in 25-45 days after harvesting. Rusty spots are located not immediately under the skin, but around the vascular ring and go into the depths of the tuber. Disease of tubers is not affected.
      Rusty flesh when cleaning tubers can not be cut, since when cooking it disappears. You can eat such potatoes, but its nutritional value and taste are lower than those grown on fertile soil.
      Check the soil from the site for acidity and nutrient content. Such a survey can be carried out by specialists of the local agrochemical service.
      If this option does not suit you, then annually make an autumn digging 1,2-1,5 kg lime (dolomite flour, chalk, wood ash) for every 10 sq.m garden. In addition, it is advisable at least once every two years to make 40-60 kg of organic fertilizers in combination with mineral fertilizers, taking into account the balance of the necessary elements.

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  4. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    Those who grow potatoes and, therefore, not by hearsay are familiar with the Colorado beetle, lilium murmur is not a wonder.
    This red-winged relative of a potato-eater appeared recently with us, but has already managed to get comfortable ... on lilies! If you do not pay attention to the pink larvae on these beautiful plants in time, do not dream of flowers. The beetle is able to eat the plant to a bare stem.
    The first signs of the appearance of a corm are rounded recesses on the leaves. The insect lays eggs inside the bud that has begun, so the larvae, having barely been born, begin to actively eat and destroy the ovary. Adults
    it is possible not only to see, but also to hear, they emit characteristic sounds, for which they are nicknamed "murmurs," or "ratchets".
    My methods of combating red-winged gluttons are primitive, but effective. As soon as the lilies went into growth, I arm myself with a tin can, put on my glasses and go to inspect the flower garden. Each leaf must be examined from above and below. I collect the larvae by hand and destroy it.
    However, it happens that you can see a few larvae. Then you have to use chemicals. Any preparations are good against Colorado beetle.
    Anna SMIRNOVA, Krasnodar

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  5. Reader

    Where do the ladybirds winter?
    We jokingly say that a dozen ladybirds are replacing a bucket of "chemistry". And this is quite fair, because the best "terminator" for aphids is hard to come up with. I want to advise the gardeners how to "privatize" these wonderful insects.
    Around the fruit trees, retreating 15-10 cm from the trunk, plant spicy-aromatic plants. It can be dill, parsley, coriander or celery. They are attracted by the scent of ladybirds. Moreover, those so like these plants, that they are happy to stay on them for the winter.
    From the point of view of gardening, spicy plants under trees of special value do not represent. But they reliably protect both the trees under which are located, and the whole garden-garden as a whole. Just do not take them out for the winter, leave in the form in which they survived until the fall. Next year, you will see that there are a lot more ladybirds on the site.

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