How to fight powdery mildew with folk remedies: village tricks

It is important to suppress powdery mildew immediately, as the fungus spreads too quickly across the area.

Not only chemical drugs can stop diseases: some folk tricks can give them quite good competition.

What methods can be tried?

Ash

To prepare a composition against powdery mildew, “brew” half a glass of ash in a liter of hot water and wait 48 hours.

Then we filter it, add a little soap and start spraying. Landscape designer and agronomist, expert of the online publication "BelNovosti" Anastasia Kovrizhnykh notes that the manipulation should be repeated in a week.

Sour milk

This simple method turns out to be very effective, so it is worth paying attention to. To prepare the working solution, add a liter of sour milk to a bucket of water.

The product is then used for sheet treatment.

One of the options for green manure

Many will be curious to know that, with a special approach, a popular green fertilizer can also be used to combat powdery mildew.

To do this, you need to collect the weeds, chop them and fill half of the container. Pour in water and wait 3-4 days.

The solution is then filtered and used to treat diseased crops.

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• 5 February 2023

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