2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
It is worth planting your favorite vegetable in the garden, as at least seven of its lovers immediately appear. They come without an invitation and unceremoniously take the best places on the plant: someone loves tops, someone roots, and someone is completely omnivorous and eats everything to the indignation of the gardener. Nature took care of the preservation of the crop by creating protective plants
Aphid
If you notice a sweet bloom on the leaves of your pets, do not be happy that now you will also have your own sugar. It is small, but with excellent appetite, the aphid ate and gave off an extra sweet liquid, on which ants and other insects, as well as parasitic fungi, flock. Sweetness will block the access of air to the cells of the plant, further weakening it. After all, aphids, like lice sucking the blood of warm-blooded animals, draws juice from plants that feeds the stem, leaves, flowers and fruits.
To scare off gluttonous aphids from your pets, plant nasturtium, peppermint, marigolds, coriander, catnip along the edge of the garden. Most aromatic herbs are not to the taste of aphids. She also does not like onions, chives, mustard, garlic, fennel. Of course, it is necessary to ensure that the defenders do not grow, displacing the defended, and are not their antagonists. For example, fennel is a quarrelsome neighbor for bush beans, beans, peas, tomatoes and spinach.
Spider mite
Should a summer resident forget a magnifying glass in the city, a tick, taking advantage of a favorable moment, lays its eggs on the side of the leaves facing the ground. Its calculation has been verified by centuries of experience - the naked eye of a person will not notice ticks under each leaf in time. They do not waste time, turning eggs into larvae with three pairs of limbs, larvae into nymphs with four pairs of limbs, nymphs into sexually mature adults.
The gluttony of the tick does not differ from the gluttony of the aphid, although the tick is not an insect, but a spider. Whoever does not know this, fights with him with pesticides for insects, but he only laughs maliciously: ignorance of small creatures entails great losses.
The spider mite has adapted best to any conditions, so getting rid of its presence is daunting. You can plant marigolds, calendula, but the effect will be small. From chemicals (Acaricides) the result will be, but the drug is harmful to humans.
Colorado beetle
The overseas guest has firmly established himself in the Russian expanses. Potato fields today are often decorated not with potato flowers, but with bunches of yellow-striped beetles and their fat-bellied red-orange larvae.
When planting potatoes, many gardeners have adapted to throw two or three vegetable beans into the hole to protect them from the beetle. The smell of coriander and nasturtium scares away the insatiable American. Herbs such as catnip, white lamb, tansy are also not to his taste. The Colorado potato beetle does not like our marinade helpers: onions and horseradish.
Medvedki
A thunderstorm of vegetables and flowers, large bear beetles sometimes cause irreparable damage to the crop. The main trouble is that they love loose and well-fertilized soil, which summer residents prepare for plants with such love and dedication.
The bear scares off the smell of chrysanthemums, unpretentious marigolds, green alder branches, garlic. Garlic can generally be planted throughout the garden, including flower beds.
Ants
These toilers of the forest are unwanted guests in the garden. For their love for aphids alone, they should block the paths to the country spaces. They not only feast on the sweet liquid secreted by the voracious aphid, but also protect its plantations from enemies, help move to a new place of residence.
Ants do not like the smell of spike and peppermint, yellow inflorescences of tansy and wormwood. They do not like the noble scent of lavender and valerian.
Locust
Thank God, I saw this pest only in a book picture. Its appearance is not intimidating, but the gluttony of a universal scale strikes consciousness instantly and remains in the memory for life. No plant can resist locusts.
Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes prefer humans to plants. Plant calendula. She will scare them away and provide first aid after a mosquito bite. Also mosquitoes are repelled by the smell of tansy; palm-like castor oil plant
Summary
Of course, protective plants alone cannot cope with an invasion of pests. But they will save human labor by significantly reducing the number of unasked guests, increasing the size and improving the quality of the harvest. Take a closer look at your garden: where pests like to settle, and which plants, possibly weeds, do not. Why not keep a couple of these weeds next to the vegetables, keeping track of their over-spread. For millions of years, nature has balanced its pantries quite well. We just have to be attentive. Keep an observation diary. In two or three years, it will more than pay off the time spent on recording.
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