From year to year, the summer is weather: it is hot and dry, then rainy. Depending on the weather conditions can change on pests in your area. If a lot of precipitation, at a rapid pace in the garden bred slugs and snails that are hiding in secluded places, and in the night creep out and cause significant damage to plants.
To get rid of these pests three main ways. Mechanical involves collecting slugs by hand. Since they need moisture in advance, prepare the trap: place between the ridges of cabbage leaves or burdock soaked in beer or fruit juice, thereby creating a cool and damp home for shellfish. Day the pests hide in your trap, collect them and destroy in strong saline or soap solution.
Another means of protection from pests – superphosphate, which is necessary to build in three strips around the plants at a distance of approximately fifteen inches from the stems. This drug perfectly absorbs moisture and mucus from the body of the mollusk, thus blocking their movement. However, there is a significant disadvantage – after the rain, this procedure must be repeated again, and the process of watering the plants somewhat more complicated.
Ecological method of pest control – the involvement of the private area of their natural enemies, among whom may be frogs, hedgehogs, starlings, Wagtails, jays and blackbirds. A small pond for frogs, birdhouses and bird feeders, treats in the form of milk or dog food will attract hedgehogs into your dacha.
To chemical methods of controlling garden pests can be safely attributed to the treatment of plants with metaldehyde. But in this case, you should be extremely careful, because the chemicals can be very hazardous to health and the lives of your Pets as well as people. Therefore, before using fruit from own garden should be thoroughly washed, and Pets to protect from contact with treated plants.
In the fight against aphids will help you wood ash, which should be put on the ground and pre-sprinkle water on the leaves and stems of plants. After careful treatment, the aphids will hasten to leave their homes. From moth and caterpillars can be eliminated with wormwood. To scare away these pests, prepare the broth: pour 800 grams of dried herb wormwood in 10 liters of boiling water. Boil for thirty minutes and leave for a day in a cool dark place. Dilute the composition in half with water and spray all your plants.
The above method can be used to prepare a decoction of yarrow. It will help to protect plants from thrips, aphids, psylla, phytophagous bugs, larvae Papilio, small caterpillars and spider mites. To protect your crop is year-round to combat various pests. Do not complicate your work, do not store on the site of the old leaves, remove fallen leaves on time, spray the planting of the ash infusion and do not be lazy to weed the weeds.