How to Save Cucumbers from Spider Mites: Simple Methods

06.04.2024 15:00

Spider mites are quite difficult "enemies" for a summer resident, so you should be prepared for their potential appearance.

However, there is a set of measures with proven effectiveness.

Therefore, when the first signs of a pest appear, it is worth starting the fight immediately, says agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication BelNovosti.

How to deal with spider mites on cucumbers?

Peroxide

In order to completely solve the problem with the pest, it will be necessary to carry out 4 treatments. If it is not very hot outside, then the interval between treatments should be a week.

In hot weather, treatment is carried out every three days.

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The recipe for the product is simple: take two spoons of the product per liter of water and apply the treatment.

Tobacco dust

This method can also be safely considered effective, but it is important to use it on time. The remedy is useful only at the early stage of the pest's appearance.

The cucumbers just need to be carefully powdered.

One such procedure will be enough.

Previously we talked about how to protect potatoes from late blight .

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

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  1. How to deal with spider mites on cucumbers?
  2. Peroxide
  3. Tobacco dust