CHERRY FLY AND FIGHT AGAINST IT (SPRAYING AND DIGGING) During the season, the cherry fly gives gardeners a lot of trouble. Once we knew about it only by hearsay or encountered its larvae in imported cherries. But the warming climate has led to the expansion of the habitat of this pest, which can destroy up to 70% of the fruits on the tree! An adult insect is small (4-5 mm) ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Cherry fly treatment - schedule and preparations
TWO DISEASES THAT CAN BE LEFT WITHOUT CUCUMBERS Of all pumpkin crops, cucumber is the most susceptible plant to diseases. The most common and dangerous are downy mildew and powdery mildew. PERONOSPOROSIS This disease affects cucumbers (as well as pumpkins, zucchini, watermelons and melons) at any age, starting from seedlings. It is especially dangerous for plants grown in unheated film greenhouses. ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Peronosporosis and powdery mildew on cucumbers - folk remedies and chemistry, resistant varieties
BIOLOGICAL MEANS FOR PROTECTING PLANTS IN A GARDEN There is nothing easier when attacking a garden with pests than to buy special preparations and get rid of enemies by using chemistry. Moreover, now there is more than enough of such a product! But some summer residents, and there are more and more of them every year, often began to abandon this idea and look for safer means that are capable of ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Biological protection of the garden - what pests animals and birds eat
CARROT FLAPBERRY - STRUGGLE MEASURES In addition to the well-known carrot flies, the orange beauty has other enemies. One of them is a leaf carrot. Note In order to prevent leaf-leaf invasion, we must first pay attention to the location of the beds. It has been established that insects winter in thickets of wild carrots and conifers. The first is easy to destroy by weeding, the second ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Dangerous pest of carrots - carrot leaf flap
MYTHS AND ERRORS IN TREATMENT PHYTOPHTORS This insidious disease can ruin both tomatoes and potatoes overnight, minimizing the entire future crop. So gardeners pass on word of mouth statements and hypotheses about both the disease itself and methods of dealing with it. What is true and what is fiction? Let's figure it out! 1. Phytophthora ...
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