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Is it possible to treat potatoes from the Colorado potato beetle without chemicals: tips that help
22.06.2024 09:25
A certain category of summer residents and gardeners look skeptically at grandma’s or grandpa’s recipes for pest control.
One of the main problems is the Colorado potato beetle, and anyone who has grown potatoes has at least once tried something like this against the pest.
Let's find out whether it is possible to deal with the beetle using folk methods or, as summer residents say, without chemicals.
Pest control
It has been scientifically proven that the beetle's organism mutates and adapts even to industrial drugs.
Therefore, it is time to understand that folk remedies will not help to exterminate the beetle, but will only scare it away for some time. And for such a remedy to be effective, it must be used constantly.
Folk methods
1. You can dust the plantings with wood ash. This is considered an effective method if you do it twice a week before the potatoes start to bloom, and then at least once a month after flowering.
2. Mustard powder can be used with the same success. A solution is prepared from it (100 g per 10 l of water), infused for a day and the plantings are sprayed.
3. An infusion of celandine, wormwood, horsetail, dandelion, and Dalmatian chamomile is used. They are poured with boiling water, and after a few hours the potatoes are sprayed. The interval is once a week.
4. Hot peppers are used to prepare a decoction (50 g of fresh or 25 g of dry hot pepper pods are crushed, poured with 1 liter of water and boiled for 10 minutes).
Then strain the broth, add 5 liters of water, 30 grams of tar soap and begin processing.
Alternative methods
Summer residents practice making bait for the beetle from potatoes and then destroying them.
However, of all the harmless methods, biological insecticides are considered the most effective.
Previously we talked about how and where to use ash and vinegar fertilizer .
