How to treat potatoes before planting to protect them from fungi and pests: professional recommendations

13.01.2023 10:27

In an effort to get a good potato harvest, any summer resident will have to deal with pathogenic fungi and numerous pests.

To minimize the likelihood of an encounter, the tubers should be sprayed with a fungicide, pesticide or multi-component seed dressing before planting, reminded the expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .

To treat planting material, you can use biopreparations based on hay bacillus. Among them are Fitosporin-M, Alirin-B or Gamair.

You can use such products twice: before storing the potatoes and on the day of planting.

The fungicide seed dressing "Maxim" can protect vegetables from rhizoctonia and fusarium. It can be used in the same way as the above-mentioned group of preparations.

Potatoes
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"Taboo Trio" will help you cope with the same problems.

In addition, the preparation can protect plantings from the Colorado potato beetle and wireworm.

Finally, if you are afraid that, among other things, the potatoes may be damaged by mole crickets, aphids, cockchafer larvae, soft rot or common scab, use Prestige, Tuber Shield or Prestigitator.

Elena Shimanovskaya Author: Elena Shimanovskaya Internet resource editor