What to add to the holes when planting potatoes: every gardener can do it

29.04.2024 21:23

By adding a certain agent to the holes when planting potatoes, you can protect them from wireworms.

How to drive this pest out of a potato bed, was explained by the expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .

What to add to the holes when planting potatoes

Adding mustard powder to the holes will help scare away wireworms and improve the soil.

Pour a tablespoon of powder into the hole, sprinkle with soil, and place the tuber.

For greater effect, mustard powder is mixed with ground eggshells, onion peels and wood ash in a ratio of 1:2:2:1 (2 spoons per hole).

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This mixture helps not only against wireworms, but also against the Colorado potato beetle.

Earlier, the expert told what fertilizers to use for feeding strawberries in the spring.

Author: Timur Khomichev Internet resource editor
 
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert / Belnovosti