5 soil pests destroy the crop of potatoes and other root crops. Gardeners facing the challenge use proven pest control methods. The effect of using home remedies and chemicals reaches 90-100%.
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How to destroy a bear, wireworm and beetle
To exterminate the cabbage (bear) take 250 g of raw wheat, boil it in a saucepan. Finely chop the onions, sauté in vegetable oil for 5-10 minutes. Mix both ingredients, add a poisonous substance to destroy the Colorado potato beetle "Zubr". On the site, parallel grooves are made and a poisonous treat for the bear is laid out. Orthoptera insect dies.
Some gardeners fight the potato pest in the following way.
The summer resident inspects the site and finds the moves made by the cabbage. It expands the inlet openings, pours liquid mixed with vegetable oil into the openings. After 30 minutes, the insect crawls out of the hole and dies. The composition, poured into the pest's nest, destroys the entire brood and laid eggs.
Kapustyanka does not like dug up soil, since the nests are completely destroyed, the insect suffers from a lack of food.
During the growing season, summer residents cultivate the soil to a depth of 15 cm. Gardeners create traps from manure 50x50x50 cm in size. The odor emanating from the pit attracts pests. They arrange wintering places. On cold days, the summer resident digs up traps and scatters fertilizer over the entire surface of the garden. The dormant cabbage dies from exposure to low temperatures.
To destroy the wireworm, summer residents use safe substances. The gardener applies the following methods of pest control:
- crop rotation;
- digs up soil in the fall;
- loosens potato beds;
- removes small tubers from the soil after harvest.
To combat the beetle, folk methods and chemicals are used. An effective remedy is "Antichrusch", which protects potatoes from pests.
The action of the composition is combined, since it contains 2 ingredients. To spray potato tops, you need to take a 10-liter container, fill it with liquid and dissolve 10 ml of the drug in it. The solution is treated with 100 m² of soil.
"Aktara" is a means that is introduced into the soil or a solution is prepared from it for processing plants. Insects die 60 minutes after applying the substance.
Controlling carrot flies and rootworm nematodes
A dangerous insect of the family Aphidiidae damages garden crops, destroys young carrots. Many summer residents take the following measures to destroy the pest:
- follow the rules of crop rotation;
- sow carrots next to plants that have a pungent smell - marigolds, calendula, garlic, onions.
Some gardeners make special sheds over the carrot plantings, which do not allow the fly to penetrate the root crops. It is necessary to thin out the beds in time.
Summer residents use chemicals and folk methods. They spray plantings of root crops with aqueous formulations of products such as:
- ammonia;
- salt;
- onion peel;
- citrus peel.
The soil is treated with hot red pepper, and then irrigated with a salt solution.
The growth of foci of gall pests is observed in greenhouses and in the open field. The pest damages the crop, losses are about 50%.
The following measures are used to control insects:
- timely detection of diseased plants;
- cultivation of resistant species;
- chemical and biological substances for soil rehabilitation.
Before sowing, the seeds are treated with systemic agents. For work, use solutions of medicines Vidata and Furadin. Their concentration is 0.1-0.5%, they do not have a negative effect on the vegetation of plants.
For the destruction of nematodes, use:
- agrotechnical methods;
- biological methods;
- chemical substances.
Such means as “Fosfamid”, “Mercaptophos”, “Lindane”, “Akarin” and “Fitoverm” have found wide application among summer residents. "Nematorin" is a modern substance that is safe for humans and has a high efficiency.
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