Friendship With The Weeds. Part 3

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

We continue to search for weeds that can help in the fight against pests of vegetable beds. Just do not forget that any toxicity for pests poses a danger to humans, and therefore we always remember about precautions

Methods of dealing with ticks and aphids that are harmless to humans

Potato and tomato tops

A two to three hour infusion is prepared from potato tops, which can be fresh or dry. To do this, add chopped potato tops to a ten-liter bucket of water. Fresh will need 1, 2 kg, dry - at the rate of 70 grams per liter of water. Do not make a more concentrated infusion, as it can cause burns to the leaves.

A decoction is prepared from tomato tops. For this, you can use stepsons. 1 kg of tops is enough for a bucket of water. First, they insist for 4 hours, and then boil for a couple of hours over low heat, periodically adding water, which is reduced by evaporation. After straining, you can dilute the broth by adding the same amount of water. A decoction of tomato tops is also able to cope with the meadow moth, the caterpillars of the cabbage scoop.

Horse sorrel roots

A three-hour infusion of finely chopped horse sorrel roots. For 10 liters of warm water, 300 grams of roots are enough.

Wormwood

Cabbage caterpillars are served with a decoction of bitter wormwood. For a quarter of an hour, a kilogram of wormwood herb, dried well in the shade of a ventilated shed, is boiled in 2-3 liters of water. After cooling the broth, filter it and add 7-8 liters of water.

Dandelion leaves

It takes 400 grams of finely chopped dandelion leaves in a ten-liter bucket of warm water. The infusion procedure lasts 2-3 hours.

Garlic extract

A very simple method that does not require a lot of time. For a 10-liter bucket of water, take from 50 to 150 grams of garlic. It is crushed (you can resort to using a meat grinder), stirred in water, filtered and immediately sent to the beds.

Yarrow

Take the time to collect the flowering yarrow, which knows how to perfectly cope with the gluttonous aphids. To do this, prepare an infusion of 2 liters of boiling water and 800 grams of plant herb. After 1 hour, the infusion is filtered, diluted with 8 liters of warm water and sent to treat uninvited aphids.

More poisonous helpers

Black henbane

A decoction is prepared from henbane. To do this, take 3 kg of fresh plants and boil for 3 hours over low heat in an enamel bowl. The amount of water is taken so that it covers all the grass. After the broth has cooled, it is passed through a sieve and diluted to obtain 10 liters of the medicinal product. The broth is ready for battle.

Dope

An infusion is prepared from ordinary dope, which is used to destroy aphids, bedbugs and spider mites. Take 1 kg of dry crushed dope on a bucket of water and insist for half a day.

Tobacco

An infusion or decoction is prepared from tobacco waste.

The infusion requires a kilogram of grass and 10 liters of water with a temperature of 60-70 degrees. After a day, the infusion is filtered and used as directed.

For the broth, a similar amount of herbs and a bucket of water are kept on low heat for half an hour. For spraying, the broth is filtered and diluted with a bucket of water.

By pollinating plants with tobacco dust, they scare away the cruciferous flea. By the way, tobacco dust can be replaced with sifted wood ash or ordinary road dust.

Attention

When used in the fight against the eaters of our vegetable crops, infusions and decoctions of henbane, dope, tobacco, vegetables processed by them can be served no earlier than a couple of weeks after the procedure.