When to treat aphids. Fighting methods. Big harm from a small insect

Aphids on trees in the garden appear closer to summer and attack young leaves and flowers. It feeds on the sap of plants, which leads to a weakening of the tree and the loss of part of the crop.

Prevention. Spraying trees with chemicals from pests and diseases begins, as soon as the snow melts and a positive temperature will be established.

From pests that have overwintered in the bark help copper sulfate, Bordeaux liquid, carbamide.

The second time the garden is sprayed from pests during the filling of the kidneys. It's around February-March.

Third wave of processing- before flowering.

Aphids bring ants. They carry it throughout the garden, arrange places for it to winter, and even protect it from other insects. In the second half of summer, aphids appear, which migrate independently, flying from plant to plant.

Ants bring aphids to trees

How to protect a tree from ants

Install trap belt. Wrap a skein of bandage up to 10 cm wide around the tree. Soak the bandage with birch tar. Tar has an oily texture, which is practically not washed off by rain and does not fade in the sun. If the summer turned out to be rainy, then you can soak the bandage again as needed. This option works all season and is very effective.

Fly tape or sticky tape. It works on the same principle as the hunting belt. More convenient to work with double sided tape, but you can also use the regular one. Wrap around the trunk several times with the sticky side out. Ants simply will not physically be able to get onto a tree and bring aphid larvae onto the branches.

The disadvantage of the method in that you need to periodically change the adhesive tape or adhesive tape from flies. BUT! Trapping belts will not protect the tree from flying aphids in the middle of summer.

Folk remedies for aphids on a tree

Aphids on cherries and cherries multiply rapidly during the ripening of the crop, when it is no longer possible to apply chemicals. Natural and very inexpensive means to combat aphids will come to the rescue.

Spray trees with ammonia. From aphids on trees, ordinary helps well ammonia from a pharmacy.

On the 10 liters of water 40 ml of ammonia + 2 tablespoons of liquid soap or shampoo. Perfect option – liquid tar soap.

Trees can be sprayed with ammonia from pests in spring and in the first half of summer. Ammonia is also a good foliar fertilizer.

Treat trees with soda ash. 2 tablespoons of soda ash (not drinking) + 1 liter of water + a tablespoon of soap (liquid soap, shampoo, dishwashing detergent, washing gel). it effective remedy and from powdery mildew. You can process the entire garden and bushes already with fruits.

Soda helps get rid of aphids on trees: 1 tablespoon baking soda for 1 liter of water. Spray several times with an interval of 5 days.

Mechanical ways:

№1 . If there are very few aphids, just gently crush it with your hands, cut off the affected leaves.

№2. Not a 100% remedy, but it works: wash strong jet of water from a hose. We managed to save the cherry so much when the berries were almost ripe on it. You will have to wash off the aphids in several passes.

Sometimes aphids do not appear on trees natural remedies need to apply insecticides. A lot of them. For example, Aktara, Konfidor, Aktellik. They have a systemic effect. Such spraying should be carried out 3 weeks before picking berries and fruits.

You can get rid of aphids on trees with folk and chemicals. In any case, you will have to spray several times. But the effort is worth it. We wish you generous harvests.

Leaf aphids of any species, green or black, feed on plant tissues, mainly young shoots, eat leaf and flower buds.

The harm from it is colossal, first of all, because the leaf aphid reproduces very quickly, forming huge colonies in a matter of days and producing about 50 colonies per season.

In addition to the general weakening of the plant: deformation of leaves and entire branches, loss of peduncles, buds, ovaries and fruits, aphids secrete sticky secretions that clog the stomata of the leaves, or a fungus settles on them. When biting through leaves, aphids can spread viral diseases.

Aphids can completely destroy young plants with one or two growth points.

The harm from aphids is aggravated by the fact that it is completely indiscriminate in plants, it devours everything: garden flowers, seedlings and adult vegetables, fruit trees, shrubs and herbs.

She has special preferences, for example, plums, cherries, roses, currant aphids are one of the first to be affected. Here taste preferences different types own aphids, black aphids prefer fruit ones - currants, apple trees, plums, green aphids - roses, chrysanthemums and other flowers. However, this is not general rule, sometimes it seems that the aphid eats everything!

Where do aphids come from on plants

A fertilized aphid female lays eggs on the branches and bark of trees, in the root zone, as a rule, in secluded and hard-to-reach places. Eggs overwinter quietly in clutches, or ants keep them until spring, and then settle in any of the most attractive plants.

In the warmth of the eggs, adults of wingless females rapidly develop, capable of reproducing without fertilization - they produce the main hordes of enemies of our crop.

By the end of June, and in warm weather by the end of May, aphids appear in the colony new form adult insects - flying females. They are the reason for the wide spread of pests. They are called aphids-settlers, their task is clear and understandable - to cover as large a territory as possible and lay the next generations of eggs. If we take into account the help of the wind, then the resettlement of pests is several tens of kilometers from the place of departure. After mating, the females lay overwintering eggs, and a new cycle begins in the spring.

You may have noticed such a phenomenon when aphids either disappear on their own, then reappear on plants - these are dioecious aphids, in the first half of the season they actively reproduce on some plants, and with the advent of winged females they move to another group of plants, at the end of summer - early autumn, they return to the first bushes again.

Ants also contribute to the resettlement of aphids - they feed on a sweet syrup that aphids secrete (honeydew). Ants, like proper farmers, grow aphids, take care of their eggs, protect them from other insects, and are constantly at the food source, trying to increase plantations.

Aphid prevention

Is it necessary to repeat the banality that it is easier to prevent the invasion of aphids than to fight it? However, any gardener will tell you that he noticed how aphids progress on some plants, on others they are rather lethargic and not numerous.

The point is in the state of the plants themselves, if they are healthy, the trees and shrubs are whitewashed, aphids do not start on them or there is very little of it.

Remove from autumn garden plot from leaf litter, mow weeds in trunk circles. At the time, cut out tops and basal shoots on which eggs can hibernate.

During the spring and summer, deter or destroy anthills. The complete destruction of anthills, as a rule, is not justified, since in a cold windy or rainy summer, ants remain almost the only pollinators of plants (non-flying weather sets in for bees and bumblebees).

To protect trees from ants, you need to destroy anthills located in close proximity to fruit bushes and trees. Then, so that the ants do not pave a new path, a dry strip should be poured around the trunks. wood ash- she's like Chinese border protect tree access. If the rain washes away the ash, you need to renew the dressing.

Whitewash against aphids

whitewash trunks fruit crops it is necessary not in the spring, as is customary with most gardeners, but in the fall, preventing the laying of pest eggs and destroying spores of pathogenic fungi.

First you need to clean the trunks from lichens, mosses and exfoliated bark with a brush - for old trees with metal, for younger trees - with stiff bristles. Wash all bark damage and cracks iron vitriol and cover with garden pitch.

For whitewashing with a 20% lime mortar, you need to take:

2 kg of slaked lime and diluted in 10 liters of water or
Dilute 1-1.5 kg of quicklime in 10 liters of water

In addition, there is another whitewash recipe: 2.5 kg of lime, 1 kg of clay and 0.3 kg blue vitriol dilute in 10 liters of water.

AT garden centers you can purchase ready-made whitewash based on lime and adhesives.

When whitewashing tree trunks, in addition to direct toxic contact, you seal already laid aphid eggs or places of their possible hiding place. But in the spring, whitewashing needs to be repeated.

You might argue that aphids are flying insects and can settle on trees even with whitewashed trunks. However, for plants the most dangerous time- the opening of young leaves, flowers, the formation of buds, and this is early spring. By the time aphids have formed females capable of flying, trees protected by whitewashing, they have time to flourish, the leaves open and coarsen, become aphids too tough.

Improvement of berry bushes

To berry bushes did not affect aphids, it is necessary to carry out the correct agricultural technology:

Do not overfeed them with nitrogen - a nitrogen-rich fertilizer makes plant sap sweeter and more attractive to aphids. It is especially dangerous to nitrogen fertilizers in the second half of summer.
Make more ash - the need for fruit crops in potassium is very high. Potassium strengthens the cell walls of plants, increases the overall resistance of plants to stressful situations, for example, to the cold. Aphids are able to bite through only a thin, delicate epidermis; they cannot gnaw through leaves with a dense skin.
Do not overfeed the trees, but use fertilizers containing not only nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, but also trace elements (boron, zinc, molybdenum, iron).
Strictly monitor the acidity of the soil - plants absorb nutrients only when the soil pH is optimal for them.
Replenish calcium in a timely manner. Apply lime on soils rich in humus or peat bogs (1-2 kg of fluff per 3-4 year old currant bush for digging), and on sandy and sandy loamy soils - dolomite flour. Recall the approximate application rates dolomite flour(less on light soils, more on heavy soils):
- acidic soils (pH< 4,5) 500-600 г/кв. м
- medium acid (pH 4.5-5.5) 450-500 g / sq. m
- slightly acidic (pH 5.5-5.8) 350-450 g / sq. m

Aphid control

Watering with boiling water

Currants and gooseberries can be watered with boiling water when there is still snow on the site, and in trunk circles fruit shrub the snow has thawed (about 70 cm in diameter). Those. the snow on the branches has already melted, but the buds are still dormant, not swollen!

Heat water to a boil, pour into a watering can with a sprinkler nozzle. Then immediately water the bushes along the branches and the soil around the bushes. A small bush takes about one watering can. When boiling water is poured into a cold metal watering can, the water temperature drops to about 80 degrees, when watering on branches, its temperature drops to 70 degrees.

This technique allows you to destroy not only the aphid eggs preserved on the shoots, but powdery mildew spores, mite masonry.

You can add 3 drops of iodine per 10 liters of water to the water, from other diseases. It is important not to keep the watering can strictly in one place during watering, i.e. you need to scald, and not rinse the branches in boiling water!

Ash dusting

In the spring, before the leaves fully bloom (it is possible at the stage of bud opening), wet the branches with water and dust with sifted wood ash for moisture.

A solution of soap and aphid ash

300 g of ash (2 cups) pour 10 liters of boiling water in a bucket, add 50 g of chips laundry soap and leave to infuse overnight. Pour the solution into the sprayer through triple gauze so as not to clog the sprayer with ash grains. Process all branches during bud break, at the stage of young leaves (salad greens).

Treatment of aphids with soap and domestos

For 10 liters of water, take 100 g of tar or black laundry soap, add 5 drops (with a pipette) of domestos (or any preparation containing chlorinol). You can spray on bare branches and at the moment when the leaves have already blossomed. Wash off the leaves 10-15 minutes after treatment. clean water from a hose. The procedure can be repeated after a couple of days.

Ammonia

Another proven way to deal with aphids is ammonia. Two tablespoons per bucket of water, add 1 tbsp. spoon liquid soap. Helps almost instantly. No need to rinse.

Dog aphid shampoo

Flea shampoo for dogs and cats has active ingredients of the pyrethroid class, they are toxic to aphids, i.e. the composition of the solution will be the same as, for example, the solution of the insecticide Iskra. The only difference is that the shampoo contains surfactants, i.e. adhesives. It is quite difficult to calculate the rate of shampoo (the concentration of the active substance is different).

A safe dosage for plants is about 1 tbsp. spoon on a bucket of water (per 10 liters). Higher concentrations may cause leaf scorch!

Aphid preparations

There are many aphids, the question is how effective they are. It must be understood that systemic preparations (solutions or tablets stuck into the ground) act from the inside - when plants are absorbed by the roots.

Enteric-contact preparations will help only if the leaves and branches are thoroughly moistened. When the aphid collects a colony, the leaves shrivel, curl up and the solution does not reach them. In this case, before spraying with aphids, you need to cut off the tops of the shoots with deformed leaves. This is possible on currant or gooseberry bushes.

On the big trees and high bushes it is technically impossible to pick aphids manually, cut nests, so the success of the enterprise depends on how well you spray.

Aphid spray time:

on the branches until the leaves open
before flowering in the phase of the beginning of budding
after flowering during the growth of ovaries
30 days before harvesting fruits and berries

In general, three classes of insecticides work against aphids: pyrethroids, organophosphates, and neonicotinoids.

It is best to use systemic neonicotinoids:

(thiamethoxam) or Confidor (imidacloprid) - they can be watered and sprayed. Help on "Hurrah". The problem with these drugs is that they are insanely expensive for an ordinary gardener: for example, for the summer of 2016, a sachet of actara 4 g costs about 100 rubles - this is for 5 liters of water. If there are a lot of aphids in the garden, and few trees and shrubs, processing is very expensive. Watering is expedient only on vegetables (cucumbers and tomatoes), on trees “from the inside” (with watering) the efficiency is low.
Tanrek is also a neonicotinoid, the active substance is the same as that of the confidor - imidacloprid, but the cost is lower, more affordable and very effective against aphids. Consumption of 3 ml per 10 liters of water - 5 liters per tree.
Iskra Zolotaya - also the active ingredient imidacloprid, for spraying 5 ml / 10 l of water.
Other analogues of Tanrek and Confidor: Biotlin Bau and Biotlin, Bison, Imidor, Kalash, Commander, Confidelin, Corado, Monsoon, Prestige, Respect, Taboo, Tsvetolux Bau. The principle of operation is the same, the prices are different, choose any.

Organophosphorus compounds Actellik (pyrimifos-methyl) and Karbofos, as well as their analogues - Antiklesh, Alatar, Fufanon, etc. also help against aphids, but recent times there is increasing resistance to these drugs, so they are less preferred.

Of the permethrins, Kinmiks is available and effective to us,.

Bio-drugs from aphids

Preparations and Akarin are very popular in gardening. The advantages of their use are obvious - the active substance does not penetrate through the cell membranes into the fruits and leaves, i.e. does not accumulate in plants. The preparations are not toxic to bees already 4 hours after the sprayed leaves have dried.

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The first mass appearance of pests in the garden is observed in late spring and in the first half of summer. What is the danger of aphids on the plum, how to deal with these insects without endangering the future crop?

Plum pollinated aphid and other varieties

In nature, there are many types of aphids, which in one way or another harm garden and garden plantings. For plums, cherries, cherry plums, sweet cherries, peaches and other stone fruits, one of the most dangerous pests is plum pollinated aphid.

Small greyish-green insects settle on leafy and flower buds, on young shoots and back side already opened leaves. With a mass infection, these parts of the plant are completely hidden under a layer of pests and dead whitish scales. Feeding on the juices of the most delicate greens, aphids cause:

weakening of the shoots that become the desired prey of other pests and those suffering from lack of nutrition, the cold of desiccation more than others;
deformation of young leaves, taking the form of a spoon or boat;
mass defeat fruit plant soot fungus and pathogens;
early fall of foliage and poor preparation of trees for wintering;
yield decline in this and next season.

While the warm period lasts, pollinated plum aphids can give a dozen generations. At the same time, insect eggs wait out the winter not only in cracks in the bark, but also on nearby grasses, preferring cereals and reeds.

Green aphids on the plum become noticeable when the number of insects is critical. But to find a black, cherry variety that does not disdain other types of stone fruits is much easier. This pest, giving up to 14 generations, is no less dangerous. The defeat of them leads to the complete folding of the tops of young shoots, the cessation of their growth and development of foliage.

Aphids of all kinds are dangerous because they can spread quickly. Winged individuals migrate independently, and wingless ones are carried from plant to plant by ants, literally grazing aphids in the hunt for the sweet secret of insects.

The defeat of the garden by this soft-looking pest can lead to weakening of trees and loss of crops. How to deal with aphids on the plum? When and what measures should be taken to maximize the effect?

The best and most stable results are obtained only A complex approach, including preventive work to protect the garden, compliance with agricultural technology and regular processing not only of plums, but also near growing crops.

Chemical agents for aphids on the drain

The sap-eating aphid plants are easily destroyed by modern insecticides. The category of agents intended to combat aphids is called aphids and includes preparations:

damaging pests upon contact with the treated surface;
penetrating inside with cell sap;
acting systemically and giving a long-term effect.

Commercially available formulations are available, can be used to destroy other enemies of the plum, and are highly soluble in water, which simplifies and reduces the cost of processing.

It is not surprising that when answering the question: “What to do with aphids on a plum?”, Many experienced gardeners without a shadow of a doubt they speak of the need for urgent spraying. It's really not worth the hassle.

Without human intervention, aphids will capture the young part of the crown in a matter of days. But neglect of safety rules and non-compliance with the terms of processing threatens not only with a danger to plants, but also harm to human health.

Chemical insecticides are the only the right decision at mass defeat plants, as well as in spring and autumn, when insects are not yet species. The choice of a particular preparation depends on the degree of damage to the garden, the presence of other insects on the branches, the time when aphids were noticed and the preferences of the gardener. Before you drain, you need to remember that the improper use of insecticides threatens:

burns of the green part of plants;
falling flowers and ovaries;
accumulation of chemicals in fruits;
damage to the skin, organs of rhenium and human respiration.

Therefore, no matter what remedy for aphids on the drain he uses, you must strictly adhere to the instructions, not forgetting about personal safety.

Features of processing plums from green aphids

The fight against aphids is carried out in several stages. If there are no insects on the trees, or individual individuals are found, it is not worth spraying with chemicals. Aphids, especially on small seedlings, are easily destroyed by hand or folk remedies using herbal infusions, soap or ash solutions.

A gardener who knows how to process aphids on a drain needs to imagine what time it is better to schedule such a treatment for:

The first time the procedure is carried out in early spring before the opening of the kidneys. At this time, it is impossible to see insects. But if they covered the shoots in abundance last season, it is likely that there are aphid eggs near the buds and under the crown.
Repeated fruit trees are processed at the green cone stage. At this moment, the probability of destruction of the already hatched larvae, which quickly form multi-million colonies, is high.
If in the spring measures to combat plum aphids were not taken or did not give the desired result, spraying is possible. blooming garden when the flowers are just opening and have almost completely fallen off.

In order not to risk their own health, synthetic preparations are used at least 30 days before harvest. When the fruits are already pouring, and the degree of damage is small, it is better to use safe folk ways pest control.

In the fall, after fruit removal, the last treatment of the year is carried out with the help of ready-made insecticides or a 5% urea solution, which is not only effective against black and green aphids on plums, but also protects trees from scab.

It is necessary to spray the trees in dry, calm weather, preferably in the morning or evening hours, when the risk of sunburn of wet foliage is minimal. Special attention when irrigating, young shoots and the back of the leaves, as well as near-trunk circles are given.

How to get rid of aphids on the drain folk remedies

Before the formation of the ovary, neither folk remedies nor chemical insecticides cause harm. And how to treat the plum from aphids after flowering? An excellent alternative is proven folk remedies based on herbal infusions, soap-ash and other solutions.

To prepare a soap-ash liquid, you will need:

400 grams of sifted wood ash:
50 grams of liquid or laundry soap;
10 liters of water.

Before use, a solution that is effective for moderate pest damage is carefully filtered. Tobacco infusion mixed with soapy water will bring no less benefit. Instead of ash, you can take 10 ml of birch tar. This oily odorous substance repels insects, and also has a pronounced antibacterial effect. Nice results gives fumigation of plantings with tobacco smoke.

Many plants contain substances that have a similar effect on garden pests as industrial insecticides. They are safe for humans and environment. How to get rid of aphids with plants?

To prepare such folk remedies for 10 liters of water at the choice of the gardener, you will need:

200 grams of garlic cloves;
300 grams onion;
1 kg of herbal raw materials based on pharmaceutical chamomile or;
4 kg of fresh tomato or potato tops;
100 grams of hot capsicum;
1 kg of yarrow herb, tansy or wormwood.

An adult fruit tree consumes about 10 liters of infusion. Severely affected shoots should not just be sprayed, but immersed as far as possible in liquid so that it penetrates into the deformations formed by pollinated plum aphids.

Preventive measures against plum aphids

Since the pest migrates easily and multiplies rapidly, before treating aphids on the drain with folk remedies or insecticides, attention should be paid to:

ant control;
correct and regular pruning crowns;
maintaining the health of the tree trunk;
digging and mulching tree trunks;
elimination of weeds and basal shoots.

There are other ways to make insects in the area uncomfortable.

Pollinated plum aphid pests not only on stone fruit crops, but also on reeds, wild cereals and other plants. The insect is especially attracted to peas and beans, young shoots and nasturtium, petunia, small-leaved and cultivated large-leaved. These plants are planted at a distance from plums and other fruit trees. If this is not possible, then they are sprayed along with stone fruit crops.

Among the inhabitants of the garden there are also green repellents that repel aphids. For the most part, these are essential oil plants, which include mint and basil, lavender and lemon balm, cilantro and unpretentious marigolds. Umbelliferae garden plants, for example, carrots, fennel, dill and other spicy-flavoring herbs perfectly lure insect predators, for which the green aphid on the plum is a welcome delicacy.

The invasion of aphids scares novice gardeners with mass character. However, with the observance of agricultural technology, maintaining cleanliness under the trees and their timely processing, insects, the number of which is easy to control, cease to be a serious threat.

Fighting aphids on plants - video

The fight against aphids, which is one of the most malicious pests green spaces, is familiar to most owners of summer cottages.

For some, it turns into a need to get rid of aphids on roses, for some, fruit trees and shrubs, chrysanthemums suffer from it. The black variety of this pest affects garden cornflowers and legumes, cotton is found on cucumbers and gourds.

Among the plants susceptible to this destroyer are stone fruits, including plum, red clover, borage and many others.

Zones of settlement of creeping and flying aphids on plants: stems and roots, leaves.

This pest causes the greatest harm to young plants, from which, in fact, cell sap is sucked out.

Aphids on roses and trees are also dangerous because they release poison. It leads to twisting, deformation and death of leaves, stunting of shoots, curvature of the tops.

You can use both household and liquid or tar soap. In the first case, 300 grams of soap are taken for 10 liters of water. In the second case, choosing the right proportions means observing the ratio: 125 ml per 10 liters of water.

If the last - tar - option is used against a garden pest, then the ratio should look like this: 100 g per 10 liters.

Another interesting, time-tested and practice-tested recipe is based on the use of ash. It can be taken in the range of 250-300 grams, boiled in 10 liters of water for half an hour.

Before spraying, you can add 40 grams of soap. Suitable for use and washing powder. You can use (and get good results) and a pure ash solution.

Ammonia at home and in the country: processing flowers and vegetables

Ammonia is a source of nitrogen for plants and is an ammonia tincture, that is, it is a nitrogenous compound. The tool has proven itself not only as a top dressing, but also as a protection against various pests.

The tool has been repeatedly and successfully used by fans of gardening leisure. Those interested in aphids on roses can safely use this alcohol for flowers and plants such as:

It can be used by dissolving 50 ml of alcohol in 4 liters of water. Healthy landings on suburban area will become the best gift caring owners. In the solution, you can add a little grated soap - household or children's.

The function of soap in this case is to provide adhesion. The finished product can be used for spraying, it is safe for use on cucumbers and other edible crops.

Correctly used product will excellent top dressing for horticultural crops and deadly poison for aphids.

Ammonia can also be diluted with water and poured into a spray bottle with the resulting solution, which is then used against insects - while in the garden.

AT dacha building and at home, ammonia is effective for large-scale cleaning. An aqueous solution is excellent against ants: they quickly scatter, and the specific smell quickly disappears.

Herbal decoctions and infusions are not chemicals, as a result of which many gardeners lose their caution when using these remedies against garden pests. However, there are a number of risks to be aware of when using these prescriptions.

Strong concentrations of infusions that can be used against aphids can cause burns in plants. When choosing a similar solution for aphids in the garden, one should not forget about the risk of harming others, including beneficial insects. Some of the decoctions and infusions can be dangerous for the human body.

Having decided to apply this or that recipe for roses and other crops, you need to “test” it first on a limited area. Only after making sure of a positive result, it is advisable to extend its influence to the entire garden plot.

Having decided to make an aphid solution in the garden for fruit crops, it must be remembered that their processing is only permissible during the budding period, immediately after the end of the flowering time and no later than two to six weeks before the start of harvest.

A remedy that is also valid for ants that have appeared on the surface vegetable crops, acceptable for spraying no later than one month before the start of fruit picking.

Aphids on roses and other plants will be destroyed if the above rules are observed.

Herbal infusion recipes

In one liter of water for five hours, you need to insist 30-35 grams of chopped onions, if desired, you can add onion peel. A few grams of laundry soap are also added here. Everything is being filtered. The tincture is ready for use.

In one liter of water for four to five days, you need to insist 200 grams of chopped garlic. Infusion is done under the lid. Proportions: 25 ml of infusion per 10 liters of water.

In 5 liters of water, 200 grams of crushed dry tobacco leaves are infused for two days. Gradually, the infusion is brought to 10 liters, filtered before use.

Aphid control based on the use of the common celandine plant

Celandine can be taken both fresh and dried. The main thing is that the whole plant is used - not only the stem, but also the flowers with leaves. Duration of infusion: one to two days. Plants are sprayed with the finished product.

Creativity as an actionable approach

The recipes of this series are based on the use of popularly loved drinks: Russian vodka, Coca-Cola, milk.

In the first case, you can buy the cheapest vodka. A sprayer is fixed on the neck of the bottle - you can start working in the garden.

American fizzy drink is also supplied with a sprayer through which the affected plants are sprayed.

According to the most likely version, the destructive effect is due to the presence of phosphoric acid in the composition of the drink. The recipe from milk and iodine is quite simple.

Smoking is the way to health

Paradoxically, but tobacco smoke, harmful to humans, benefits plants. And this is done as follows: a small fire is kindled in a metal can from under canned food. As soon as the latter flares up properly, tobacco dust pours into it. White smoke immediately starts pouring out of the can.

With a jar, from which thick and rather fetid smoke pours, they bypass the site, thereby destroying the aphids.

The same method has been used by our ancestors since ancient times, saving trees from short-term frosts. Modern summer residents, exhausted by the intrigues of pests generated by scientific and technological progress, have significantly expanded the "functionality" of the smoky method.

Interesting and effective methods such as spraying essential oils with cream, washing with a suspension of sunflower oil with water, and many others. The selection of a method, taking into account all the nuances of the situation, will give the expected results.