Every year in our potato field dwelt wireworms. Inhabited -. It mildly, is hosting) That just did not take, than just not trying to erase it, to no avail.
Wireworms eats potatoes directly into the soil, performing numerous passages in it and holes. To clean a potato, even the quest and ordeal. How many uncomplimentary words in his address sounded at such moments.
Friends and neighbors tried to help us by different councils. For example one of my friends said that it had not been wireworms, you need at planting potatoes put in each well of a handful of onion peel. My wife and I have become all the autumn, winter and spring be collected in sacks this onion peel. when planting in the spring it was used, as it has been consulted. We are hoping with all my heart that this will help to get rid of wireworms.
But in the fall, when they began to dig up potatoes, saw that it was our actions does not give nor any result. Wireworms ate with great pleasure that our potatoes "mashed" with onions. 😃
And now I will tell you what is it that helped us get rid of the pest completely.
Having read a lot of literature, we realized that wireworms just loves acidic soil. And just so it does not remove it from or in what ways. If the ground limp, it itself will disappear from it.
We started every autumn, after the dug potatoes, sprinkle abundantly ground dolomite and limestone flour. Approximately four hundred square land 150 kg of lime and dolomite. The whole thing dug in the winter.
In the spring when planting potatoes added to each well of a handful of wood ash. She and deoxidize the soil and fertilize it further. Potatoes were the growth of a large and clean with no holes and wireworms. For the past 3 years we did not see him at all, and have already started to forget about him. ))
Therefore, my advice is, if you also suffer with wireworm, like we used to, find out first if you have acidic soil. Until she was limp - and will suffer from this pest and leaky potatoes.
To know before, how much you could save money and nerves!