Top 5 garden pests and folk remedies against them - collection No. 6
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HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND DRIVE SLUKES, COLORADA, APHIDS, SCOOP AND WIREBOX
1. HOW TO DESTROY THE COLORADO BEETLE
The first enemy of potato plantings is the Colorado potato beetle. Traces of its vital activity are hard to miss, because only one larva in a short time is able to eat a dozen leaves, leaving potatoes without tops. Also, the Colorado potato beetle feeds on the leaves of tomatoes, eggplant and other nightshade.
One method of dealing with the beetle is to collect it by hand. But on large plantings it is tiring, and therefore summer residents resort to the help of such means as ash, a decoction of wormwood, garlic, white clover, walnut, and soapy water. The treatment of the site is repeated after 5-10 days as needed. It also helps to plant marigolds, legumes, coriander, nasturtium, onions, tansy, horseradish on the site.
Reference by topic: Mattiola from the Colorado potato beetle and other folk ways to deal with it (plants)
2. How to get rid of slugs
Despite their slowness, slugs are considered champion plant eaters. They are able to leave only skeletons from landings. In addition, they secrete mucus, which interferes with the development of young seedlings.
Slugs are afraid of ordinary salt, ammonia and pepper. There is also a way: put boards between the rows, under which the mollusks will crawl in search of shade and dampness. It's easy to pick them up there.
3. HOW TO GET RID OF APHIDS ON THE PLOT
The aphid is a small pest, inconspicuous, but extremely prolific and, moreover, omnivorous. It gives off honeydew, which ants love. For this, they feed pests on the best plants. Aphids can destroy everything: cucumbers, tomatoes, pumpkins and even weeds. At the same time, she not only sucks the juices out of them, but also poisons them with poison, because of which they get sick and die.
However, it is quite possible to overcome aphids. From the pest there are many folk remedies: soap solution, infusion with zest, ash, hot pepper, onion. It is important to treat the beds regularly.
Reference by topic: Fighting aphids - my way
4. HOW TO BEAT THE SCOOP
Cabbage scoop is a spectacular butterfly, which cannot be said about caterpillars. These pests, as the name implies, feed on cabbage, but also do not disdain potatoes, radishes, beets, tomatoes, peas, sunflowers. Due to their green coloring, caterpillars are not easy to spot on plants. They eat mainly at night, and during the day they hide at the base of the leaves. But
they are given out by eaten leaves and numerous holes.
Eaten plants are already difficult to save, so it is advisable to fight the cabbage scoop before the butterfly lays its eggs. But the caterpillars do not like repellent plants: onions, sage, tansy, thyme, wormwood, nasturtium. So gardeners try to plant them to drive away the pest.
Reference by topic: Folk remedies for diseases and pests - proven methods from gardeners: collection 5
5. HOW TO FIGHT THE WIREBOX
The wireworm is the larva of the click beetle. This is a malicious pest of potatoes, carrots, beets, and also sunflower, corn, melons. It can be easily recognized by its characteristic traces - perforated tubers, as if pierced with a thick wire. Soon, the plants damaged by it begin to wither.
Getting rid of the pest is difficult, but possible. The wireworm does not like marigolds, mustard, rapeseed, spinach, beans and does not lay eggs where they grow. That is why summer residents plant these plants in the aisles, and then mow and close up in the soil. Be sure to remove wheatgrass from the site - the insect's favorite location. Also, a solution of potassium permanganate, ground eggshell, and nettle infusion are saved from the wireworm.
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I bought the dacha in the winter, one might say, blindly, so I saw my garden for the first time only in the spring. Apple trees, cherries, plums - everything was blooming and fragrant. But after taking a closer look, I discovered that not everything was so rosy... The branches of different trees were intertwined with each other, lichens settled on the trunks, and aphids and copperheads were at work on some apple trees. In short, urgent measures were required.
I prepared a garlic infusion for aphids. I'm sharing the recipe. Pour hot water (2 liters) over 300 g of unpeeled garlic cloves minced through a meat grinder and leave for 8 hours. After this, strain, squeeze, add 30 liters of water and add XNUMX g of grated laundry soap. I sprayed the garden with the infusion early in the morning in several sprays. The aphids could not withstand such procedures and practically disappeared.
And she drove away the copperhead with smoke. In the evening, in calm weather, she laid out armfuls of wet straw in different places in the garden, sprinkled tobacco dust on it, set it on fire and left it to smoke for two hours. The smoke attack was carried out for three days in a row. It helped - the copperhead was gone.
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Our family adheres to the principles of natural farming, so we get rid of numerous pests using available biological means.
Against ticks, larvae and adult aphids in the spring, at the beginning of bud break, I treat trees with such infusions. I pour 200 g of dry onion peel into 10 liters of warm water, leave for 4-5 days, filter. I grind 0,5 kg of garlic, add water in a three-liter jar, leave for 5 days in a warm, dark room. Then I filter and dilute 100 ml of infusion in 10 liters of water (I also add 50 g of grated laundry soap for better adhesion).
I infuse green leaves and rhizomes of dandelion (200-300 g of crushed roots or 400 g of chopped leaves) in 10 liters of water for 2-3 hours, filter and use immediately.
To scare away codling moth butterflies, pour 200 g of needle-bearing summer growth of pine and spruce with 3 tbsp. water and leave it in a dark place for a week. Before spraying, dilute with water (1:10).
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During the period when the codling moth caterpillars hatch, which coincides with the beginning of the shedding of the excess ovary (June), it is useful to treat the garden with biological preparations. Bitoxibacillin (40-80 g per 10 liters of water) Lepidocid (20-30 g per 10 liters of water) have proven themselves well. After 7-8 days, it is advisable to repeat the spraying.
Raisa MATVEEVA, Cand. Biol. science
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Infusion against pests on eggplant
If pests appear on eggplants (fleas, Colorado potato beetle and others), I spray them with an infusion that has long proven its effectiveness on my plantings.
I grind 5 kg of green flowers of garden chamomile (together with the stems), add 100 g of dry mustard (powder), 100 g of garlic passed through the garlic, mix everything, pour 10 liters of warm water and set to infuse for a day.
Before spraying eggplant bushes, I prepare a solution of 3 kg of concentrated infusion and 10 liters of water. I mix and process the bushes well. I try to do it in the evening.