Blackcurrant: pest control without the "chemistry"

  • Dec 24, 2019

Gardeners happy black currant, pest control allows you to save the harvest. Berries contain high amounts of vitamin C, good for health. Active struggle with currant mite and other insects - the key to a great harvest.

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currant cultivation. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru

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Plant damage many overwintering pests:

  • spider mite;
  • mol;
  • aphid;
  • grebenchatousy sawfly;
  • moth;
  • midge;
  • stelyannitsa.

Tips and tricks

Gardeners are making great efforts to kill mites, which love to feast on young leaves. Insects are found at the base of petioles. For the destruction of the pest currant popular methods are used.

Care currant. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru
Care currant. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru

Preparation of tinctures of garlic seed

Reliable means to combat mite is a garlic tincture. To prepare the composition charge of 50 g of cloves, ground with a knife. The resulting mass was placed in a 10 liters capacity and with cold water. Ready means is poured into a spray device.

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Currant bushes treated 3 times with an interval of 5-7 days.

Often, the host uses different methods to eliminate pests:

  • burns twigs, infected ticks;
  • uses sulfur spray the bushes.

Apply the following drugs:

  • Akarin;
  • Kinmiks;
  • Fufanon.
Sprinkle currants. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru
Sprinkle currants. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru

Fighting bud moth

Affected spider pest currant bushes treated with fungicide formulations:

  • Vertilok;
  • Akarin;
  • Zolon;
  • sulfur colloid.

Funds do not kill the eggs of pests, thus hives treatment is carried out 3-4 times. Affected branches can be sprayed karbofosom.

Thrives on berry bushes bud moth. The warm weather in the winter - the ideal conditions for the pest. After the snow melts, she settled on the shoots.

When the kidneys are in their infancy, diseased plants like burnt bush.

Track during winter inhabit cocoons continuing to cut the branches or located near blackcurrant bushes. Insects damage the kidneys, in the flowering period they fall into the ground, where the transformation of a caterpillar into a chrysalis. Small butterflies lay eggs in the berries, which are not yet ripe.

currant crop dies, ie. to. the berries ripen early.

Gardeners are fighting pests in the period of abundant flowering currant bushes. In the early spring months of last year removed the dried leaves, old branches, trash, carry out pruning.

Spraying against pests. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru
Spraying against pests. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru
Affected residues must be destroyed. In this case, the owner will keep the bushes healthy, save the plant from caterpillars. For the destruction of butterflies currant sprayed drugs spark or Actor.

Often used for processing bushes:

  • mustard powder as an infusion;
  • an aqueous composition comprising herb Chelidonium.

Processing plants eliminates the gooseberry moth and yellow sawfly.

We get rid of aphids

This is a dangerous pest of berry bushes, insect multiplies rapidly, destroying the leaves and shoots.

Gardeners are faced with two types of pests:

  • sheet and gallic aphid;
  • insects living on the shoots;
  • gooseberry views.

Easily detect the parasite: currant leaves become uneven, covered with tubercles deep red color. Soon they fall.

Swellings on leaves of a currant. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru
Swellings on leaves of a currant. Illustration for an article is used for a standard license © ofazende.ru

Struggling with aphids as follows:

  • preparing an aqueous solution of 72% household soaps and sprayed infected bush;
  • to get rid of malicious pests use garlic infusion. Sometimes it is replaced with an aqueous composition of onion peel.
It protects the plant means tobacco, mustard, pine needles and green foliage. The infusion is prepared within 4 hours. destroy pathogens using bitoksibatsillin drugs Batsikol.

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