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Useful information for amateur gardeners and gardeners. Simple techniques to help increase yields
Mustard
If slugs appear, buy mustard powder. It is enough just to sprinkle on the ground in places of accumulation. Spreading herbaceous plants of the host type usually suffer from them.
Spraying the bushes with mustard infusion after flowering effectively helps from leaf-gnawing caterpillars, sawflies, berry fireflies, apple moths. Take 100 g of powder and 10 liters of water. After stirring the solution, leave for 2 days. After insisting, it is advisable to strain and dilute with water (another 10 liters). Then add 2 tablespoons liquid soap to the bucket. The same infusion saves from aphids, bedbugs, thrips, which oppress cabbage, flowers and roots.
Baking soda
Ideal powdery mildew remedy. Works well on all crops even in wet weather. Cooking is not difficult: 4 l of water + st / l of soda + liquid soap (0.5 h / l). For a complete cure, it is recommended to spray every 7 days.
Zucchini and cucumbers will be saved from powdery mildew by a soda solution prepared in 5 liters of water. For this volume, you need to add st / l of soda and an aspirin tablet. After dissolving, add a little vegetable oil and liquid soap (tsp). The procedure is carried out at weekly intervals until complete recovery. From gray rot - 75 g of soda + 10 liters of water. From premature yellowing, you can water it every other day with soda water: 10 l + st / l.
Iodine
In gardening, iodine is very popular. It is used for various cultures as a solution. Here are some examples of use.
• Rotting of ovaries in squash and squash often occurs from a lack of iodine. Water the bushes with a weak iodine solution: 10 ml on a 10-liter watering can.
• Stimulates the fruit formation of cabbage with iodized top dressing. At the initial stage of kochna formation, you need to water the cabbage under the root with a solution: iodine is added to a 10-liter bucket of water - 40 drops.
• For fruit rot on fruit trees, it is recommended to apply spraying (2 h / l iodine per 10 l.). Preferably, well in advance of harvesting (one month).
• Iodine spraying (10 ml + 10 l) helps to prevent the development of late blight. It is used for tomatoes, eggplants.
• From the progression of the weevil and the appearance of rot on the strawberry, the bushes are irrigated until the beginning of flowering (10 l + 40 drops).
• Flowering, tomato setting and fruit cluster development will be better if the seedlings are watered once with a solution (3 l + 1 drop). After planting in the ground and final rooting, to accelerate ripening and the formation of larger fruits, the bushes are watered with iodine water. Distribute in a liter per plant, prepare the solution in the same way, but in a larger volume: 10 l + 3 drops.
• The iodine content in the fruits of the pepper will increase if the bushes are fed twice with a pause of 10 days with the same solution as for tomatoes.
• It is useful to add a couple of drops of iodine to all mineral dressings, for all vegetables. As a result, the fruits will contain a sufficient amount of this useful substance.
Potassium permanganate
A manganese solution will help protect strawberries from gray rot. The concentration should be high: 10 l + 1 h / l. seed potatoes are bathed in the same solution before storing. Treat before planting to protect against wireworms.
Boric acid
Boric acid solution is an ambulance for problems with vegetables. They are sprayed with zucchini and squash, if rotting of young fruits is observed. It is used for sluggish tying in peppers, eggplant, cucumbers and tomatoes. Boric water recipe: 2 g of acid + half a liter of hot water, after thorough stirring, it is mixed with water heated in the sun, bringing the volume to 10 liters.
Garlic
Infusion of garlic stimulates vegetation and strengthens the immune system. It is used for all types of plants, dosed per liter per bush. You can cook in any volume, keeping to the proportions of 1 l + 4/5 cloves. Garlic is poured with boiling water, infused for 20 minutes.
Tea
Used tea leaves will help prevent onion diseases. To do this, you need to dry the tea leaves and store until planting. It is recommended to add a teaspoon under each onion.
By using these simple growing methods, you can avoid many problems and get an excellent harvest.
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