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How to protect potatoes from late blight: experienced gardeners shared secrets - this will be useful to everyone
03.04.2024 16:24
In order to ensure that the potato crop is reliably protected, it is important to carry out special preventive measures.
They should be aimed at both protection from insects and disease prevention.
Late blight deserves special attention, notes landscape designer and agronomist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert for the online publication BelNovosti.
It is important to realize that the disease will destroy at least 50% of the potential crop.
How can you protect yourself from it?
Salt
Not everyone knows that regular salt can even cure late blight at its early stage of development. You need to do the following.
You need to dissolve one kilogram of salt in ten liters of water and spray the potatoes.
Iodine with kefir
This method can also act as an effective treatment. In this case, it will be necessary to carry out treatments every week and a half.
First, pour nine liters of water into the bucket. Then add a packet of kefir and just 2 ml of iodine. The product is effective and high-quality.
Previously we talked about how to cure cucumbers from white rot .
