How to Properly Care for Strawberries in Spring: The Harvest Will Surprise Your Neighbors

16.01.2023 06:50
Updated: 13.04.2023 11:25

We will tell you what natural products you can use to treat strawberries to protect them from pests and diseases.

Pest control products

  • Dissolve 300 g of crushed garlic in a bucket of water. Let the solution sit for 7 days.
  • Dissolve 800 g of crushed dandelions in a bucket of hot water. Leave for 5 hours, strain before use.
  • Dissolve a couple of kilograms of crushed wormwood stems in a bucket of water. Boil the decoction, cool and strain.
  • Dissolve a couple of kilograms of fresh tobacco leaves in a bucket of water. Boil the decoction, cool and strain.
  • Dissolve chopped tomato stems in a bucket of water. Let the solution sit for 4 hours, then boil and cook for 30 minutes. Cool the solution and strain.
  • Dissolve half a bucket of onion peel in a bucket of water. Let the solution sit for a couple of days. Before use, dilute with water in a ratio of 1 to 2.
  • Dissolve half a liter of vinegar and 250 ml of oil in a bucket of water. The product will help get rid of ants.

Add 100 grams of crushed pepper to 1 liter of boiling water. Boil the mixture for an hour, then leave it for a couple of days. Then strain and dilute with water in a ratio of 1 to 20 before use.

Anti-disease remedies

Dissolve 100 grams of mustard in a bucket of water. Leave it for three days. Then add 5 liters of water and water the beds against gray mold.

To combat rot, sprinkle ash under the bushes, calculate 70 grams per 1 m2.

Pour 3 liters of water over a kilogram of hay. Leave for 6 hours, then use against powdery mildew.

Strawberry
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Dissolve 75 grams of dry tansy herb in a bucket of water. Leave for 24 hours, then boil for 20 minutes. Before use, dilute with water in a ratio of 1 to 5.

In a bucket of water, dissolve a teaspoon of iodine, a couple of tablespoons of birch tar, half a teaspoon of boric acid, a teaspoon of fir oil, a couple of tablespoons of ammonia, 200 grams of liquid laundry soap. Mix everything, dilute before use in proportions of 1 to 20.

You need to start spraying the beds when the snow melts. Then before flowering. If the beds were attacked by weevils last year, you need to treat them with Actellik.

Elena Gutyro Author: Elena Gutyro Internet resource editor


Content
  1. Pest control products
  2. Anti-disease remedies