2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The summer season is not only a fertile, but also a very troublesome time. Indeed, in order to harvest a good harvest, it is important to ensure that gluttonous pests do not appear on the site. And if they have already appeared, it is necessary to take appropriate measures to combat them as soon as possible. What pests can be found in vegetable gardens most often, and how can they be dangerous?
Colorado beetle
Colorado beetle - This is one of the most unceremonious and voracious pests, which causes serious damage to the potato crop. These cute yellow and black striped bugs can quickly destroy almost the entire crop, so you must definitely fight with them! By the way, they are happy to feast on not only potato plantings, but also leaves of tomatoes or eggplants. But beets, cabbage and carrots with beans are not at all interested in them.
If you don't want to resort to pesticides (and it's never too late to use them), you should try some folk methods of dealing with the Colorado potato beetle. You can, of course, collect them by hand every day, or when planting potatoes, pour onion husks mixed with wood ash into the holes along with the tubers - this approach perfectly helps to save the future harvest. Periodic spraying will also serve well, for which all kinds of herbal infusions, vinegar, mustard and infusion of ash and soap are widely used.
Medvedka
No less dangerous pests are considered and
bear, which outwardly somewhat resemble cockroaches, however, the harm from them is much greater. They willingly feast on root crops, as well as seeds, roots and bulbs of various plants, often causing irreparable harm to them. To scare away these harmful parasites, you can use the infusion of bird droppings for feeding and watering - the bears cannot stand it. The smell of marigolds also frightens off these pests, which means that you can safely plant these charming flowers on the site!
Aphid
Another thunderstorm of bountiful harvests - gluttonous
aphid … Sucking all the juices from the plants, it deprives them of vital nutrition, as a result of which the garden crops begin to ache and wither, and after a while they die. One of the best ways to combat aphids is to attract birds and insects to the site that are not averse to eating it. Good results can be achieved by spraying with a solution of tar soap, an infusion of wood ash, as well as infusions of various bitter herbs - onions, wormwood, garlic, etc. But pesticides should be resorted to only as a last resort, since they can harm not only gluttonous parasites, but also plants, and even humans!
In order for the harvests to always be happy, it is important to try to find uninvited guests on the site in time and take prompt measures to eliminate them!
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