Have you noticed in the gooseberries in your garden white patches? This fungal disease powdery mildew. It can affect all parts of the plant: leaves, shoots, fruits. Later, plaque begins to get dark, do not grow berries and dry leaves skukozhivayutsya and dries fall off. If the plant is not treated, it can be lost for a couple of years.
When infected with 1 bush, there is a risk that the disease will go to neighboring since disputes well fluttering wind, moreover, are not afraid of the cold, the heat, like high humidity.
Throughout the season you must be ready to fight malware fungus, especially during heavy rains.
There are several ways to get rid of this defeat.
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means
- Among gardeners popular treatment kryzhovnikarastvorom soda ash. Preparing simple: take 50 grams of soap and soda in a bucket of water. Spray the bushes need, when they bloom, or as soon as discovered disease. Processing is performed three times at an interval of 1.5 weeks.
- Practiced by gardeners and the infusion of rotted manure. Prepare its rate of 3 parts water to 1 - raw material. Infuse 3 days; solution before use diluted with water 1: 2, strain, spray patients bushes. Bacteria, which are abundant in manure, perfectly cope with this disease. Sprayed the bushes after the harvest.
- Wood ash - another means of controlling the disease. Required 1 kg of ash per 10 liters of water. Sift ash, heated water, all mixed. To better solution lingered on the leaves, add the soap. Insist several days, spray the bushes by day three. It is also useful to introduce the solution into the soil next to the trunks, stirring well to the ground.
- Try to prepare the following mixture: 1 l of serum, dilute 1:10 with water and add 20 drops of iodine. Spray it gooseberries whole season every 10 days.
- It is also effective against fungal diseases of tomato tops. Make an infusion of it, add a little soap and safely proceed to treatment.
- If the disease has already started badly, then you need to spray plants with fungicides, such as for example "Topaz", "Tilt", "fitosporin", "oksihom" and others. This should be done in the evening. Desirably, the drug was on both sides of the sheet.
preventive measures
To powdery mildew never appeared in your garden, keep these simple rules:
- Planted bushes no closer than 1.5 m from each other in areas well-heated by the sun;
- watch out for in order to crown it was not too thick;
- Make sure that branches do not touch the ground;
- excess nitrogen fertilizers increase the risk of fungus, so it is best to use the phosphate and potash assets;
- autumn collect fallen leaves; if there are infected shoots, cut and burn all;
- digging up the soil to fungus spores were at a depth of 15 cm;
- boosts immunity plants by spraying it with a solution of zircon;
- in the spring, when not yet blossomed buds, pour over boiling water bushes.
All of these simple steps can help prevent disease.
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