Fertilizer for the soil and prevention of plants with improvised means
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Plant prevention is an integral part of caring for our green comrades.
Prevention of plant diseases and pests with soda
Treatment of plants with soda solution is harmless to plants. Berry crops such as currants, raspberries, gooseberries are susceptible to
powdery mildew disease. To prevent disease in shrubs, prophylaxis with soda solution should be carried out. Processing is allowed at the onset of the disease. For fruits, soda solution is not dangerous. Prepare a solution at the rate of four tablespoons of soda per bucket of water.
Plant prevention must be carried out against the appearance of pests. To do this, you need to mix one glass of baking soda with half a bucket of ash and spray this mixture into places where pests accumulate. This ratio of the prepared mixture is suitable for the destruction of caterpillars and slugs on cabbage.
And to destroy the weevil larvae, the solution is prepared from the ratio of two tablespoons of soda to a bucket of water. It is recommended to add soap shavings or liquid soap to the solution. Processing raspberries and strawberries must be done before flowering every four to five days. The baking soda also helps to determine the acidity of the soil. If a handful of earth
sprinkle with soda and a hiss reaction will appear, which means the soil
sour.
Important! Observe the concentration of the soda solution, otherwise you can cause harm.
Preventing plants from pests with mustard
Mustard is used to combat aphids, carrot flies, caterpillars,
spider mite. It is necessary to prepare an aqueous solution at the rate of fifty grams
dry mustard, forty grams of laundry soap for ten liters of water. The solution should be infused for two days. Then treat the plants by spraying. Repeat the treatment two weeks later.
A more concentrated solution is made against slugs: one hundred and fifty grams of mustard per ten liters of water. Also recommended
sprinkle the ground with dry mustard.
When planting potatoes in the holes, add a little mustard powder so that the wireworm, the main enemy of potato tubers, does not appear. You can sprinkle mustard on the ground between the rows. Her smell scares away
Colorado potato beetle and wireworm.
Mustard is also good for scaring away cabbage butterflies. A solution is made, one glass of mustard and tobacco dust per bucket of water. The solution is insisted for three days, filtered. Then the plants are watered twice a month.
In order to scare off a fly when growing onions, you should cover the ground with mustard powder mixed with ash in a 3: 1 ratio. It is advisable to re-cultivate the land in two weeks.
Fertilization of agricultural land with yeast
Yeast can also be used as fertilizer. Yeast solution is an excellent growth stimulant. To prepare the solution, you need to take fifty grams of fresh yeast, one hundred grams of sugar and stir in a bucket of warm water. The solution should be kept warm for two to three hours. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants are watered with this solution to prevent the plant from pests.
Important! Water the plants in moist and warm soil once a month.
Yeast top dressing, in addition to everything, is also a stimulator of soil formation. The use of these ingredients in the garden will make it possible to get an environmentally friendly harvest.