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How to Properly Care for Strawberries in Spring: The Harvest Will Surprise Your Neighbors
16.01.2023 06:50
Updated: 13.04.2023 11:25
We will tell you what natural products you can use to treat strawberries to protect them from pests and diseases.
Pest control products
- Dissolve 300 g of crushed garlic in a bucket of water. Let the solution sit for 7 days.
- Dissolve 800 g of crushed dandelions in a bucket of hot water. Leave for 5 hours, strain before use.
- Dissolve a couple of kilograms of crushed wormwood stems in a bucket of water. Boil the decoction, cool and strain.
- Dissolve a couple of kilograms of fresh tobacco leaves in a bucket of water. Boil the decoction, cool and strain.
- Dissolve chopped tomato stems in a bucket of water. Let the solution sit for 4 hours, then boil and cook for 30 minutes. Cool the solution and strain.
- Dissolve half a bucket of onion peel in a bucket of water. Let the solution sit for a couple of days. Before use, dilute with water in a ratio of 1 to 2.
- Dissolve half a liter of vinegar and 250 ml of oil in a bucket of water. The product will help get rid of ants.
Add 100 grams of crushed pepper to 1 liter of boiling water. Boil the mixture for an hour, then leave it for a couple of days. Then strain and dilute with water in a ratio of 1 to 20 before use.
Anti-disease remedies
Dissolve 100 grams of mustard in a bucket of water. Leave it for three days. Then add 5 liters of water and water the beds against gray mold.
To combat rot, sprinkle ash under the bushes, calculate 70 grams per 1 m2.
Pour 3 liters of water over a kilogram of hay. Leave for 6 hours, then use against powdery mildew.
Dissolve 75 grams of dry tansy herb in a bucket of water. Leave for 24 hours, then boil for 20 minutes. Before use, dilute with water in a ratio of 1 to 5.
In a bucket of water, dissolve a teaspoon of iodine, a couple of tablespoons of birch tar, half a teaspoon of boric acid, a teaspoon of fir oil, a couple of tablespoons of ammonia, 200 grams of liquid laundry soap. Mix everything, dilute before use in proportions of 1 to 20.
You need to start spraying the beds when the snow melts. Then before flowering. If the beds were attacked by weevils last year, you need to treat them with Actellik.
