How to Get Rid of Pests with Chamomile and Elderberry: Tricks Many Don't Know

27.11.2023 15:30

Many people know that pest control can be exhausting and not always effective.

However, you can try using proven remedies that give excellent results.

You don't even have to go to a specialty store to do this: expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh suggests paying attention to elderberry and chamomile.

How to Properly Use Plants to Control Insects

Overcome cabbage worms, aphids, moths and beetle larvae

This composition will also be effective in the fight against thrips. You will need to collect about three hundred grams of elderberry. Both the flowers themselves and young branches and leaves are used.

They need to be chopped and poured with ten liters of boiling water. The composition is infused for about a day. Then you just need to strain the product and proceed to the actual treatment of the plants attacked by insects.

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Deal with aphids, caterpillars and even mites

This remedy shows excellent results. You will need to find at least a kilogram of chamomile. If you have dried plant material, you can take less.

The flowers are poured with a bucket of boiling water and left to infuse overnight.

Then we filter the product. For the resulting volume we take three times more water, mix and add soap. An excellent composition for spraying is ready.

Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor
 
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert / Belnovosti

Content
  1. How to Properly Use Plants to Control Insects
  2. Overcome cabbage worms, aphids, moths and beetle larvae
  3. Deal with aphids, caterpillars and even mites