Save Potatoes from Colorado Beetle: Summer Residents Name a Couple of Cheap Ingredients
There is no need to tell you what a Colorado potato beetle invasion is. The pest migrates through vegetable gardens and fields, and the intensity of migration is directly related to the frequency of treatments of plantings on neighboring plots.
In this case, you should always keep the right anti-parasite remedy on hand.
Summer residents know that beetles will return to the treated garden. They can move from a neighboring plot or a collective farm field after the treatment has taken place there.
Regular chemical treatment of potatoes is unlikely to be beneficial to health.
Then, during breaks, folk developments can come to the rescue.
How to proceed
You will need:
- mustard powder – 100 grams;
- hot water – 1 liter;
- laundry or tar soap (liquid soap is also possible) – 50 grams.
All ingredients are mixed until completely dissolved and left to infuse for 15 minutes.
The finished concentrate is brought to a volume of 10 liters and used for processing.
Some recipes also call for 9% vinegar (150 ml).
The advantages of this folk remedy are that the pest does not like it, it is quite effective and harmless, and treatments can be carried out at intervals of once every 5 days.
