Hobby gardening and horticulture attacks overshadow the many pests of cultivated plants, especially aphids. In an age of advanced agricultural chemistry to save the plants from parasites quite simply by applying insecticide to the active substance which is sensitive this bug. Many are interested in, and how to deal with aphids without the use of chemicals.
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The aphid is dangerous?
For the life of aphids need to power the juice plant. When the body of the insect can not digest it completely, it via the rear duct outwardly evacuate excess food. Sweet secretions regale ants, aphids that help to move into new spaces. The plants affected by aphids, it is easy to determine on Black fly on the leaves. On the shoots damaged by aphids, leaves curl tube.
Sprouts in connection with this slowly evolving, inhibited the formation of fruit buds. Aphids are active in the spring and summer. Since mid-July, when the trees stop growing, as well as during periods of prolonged lack of rain and the establishment of hot weather slows the development of these pests. Insects survive winter in the form of eggs, which are hidden in the young shoots and Volchkov.
How to destroy aphids without using chemicals?
Even non-chemical methods of protection from aphids, involving the use of liquids may provoke leaf burn. Therefore, the best time to spray tincture and decoction is early morning or late evening. Wood ash is causing aphid potassium poisoning.
Methods to combat aphids:
- Dusting. To prepare the powder must be sifted wood ash. Then, this fine powder should be moistened with water to powder leaves plants affected by aphids.
- Spraying decoction of ash. It should be 300 g of powdered wood ash pour boiling water, to continue to boil the solution for 20-25 minutes on medium heat, constantly replenishing the water level of the stock. Give broth to cool and settle. Before processing a received active substance should be topped bucket of water and put soap (25 g - potassium tar or 50 g - economic particulate).
- Spraying infusion of potato leaves. Means required for 1 kg 500 g of green (800 g dried) topper. This mass must fill a bucket of water and wait for 4 h. Before processing plant infusion should drain.
- Spraying a solution of ammonium chloride. ammonia concentration in the solution should be in a ratio of 1 tbsp. l. 10 liters of water.
Also, the processing broth tomato foliage. Fresh green leaf mass and tomato stems in an amount of 5 kg is to be crushed and boiled in a bucket of water for half an hour. Broth should be cool, let it brew, strain. Processing must solution prepared from 2 liters of broth diluted with 10 liters of water. To a solution of tackiness imparting it should grate 40 g of soap. It helps and such composition: 400 g of tobacco grind and infuse for 48 hours in a bucket of water. The formulation was diluted with 10 liters of water, add grated soap 40 g per 10 liters.
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