Gardeners continue to fight insect pests, and it is being carried out with varying success.
If you manage to stop the Colorado potato beetle, then butterflies appear from nowhere, and they are replaced by mole crickets, aphids and other parasites. It is impossible to stock up on means of combating them all.
This is how experienced gardeners get out of this situation and fight all insect pests at once with the same remedy.
They say that our grandmothers knew it well – it’s mustard.
Mustard powder is not as expensive as chemical preparations, but it successfully combats the army of harmful beetles and caterpillars.
Against the Colorado potato beetle
To prepare the working composition, you need to take 10 liters of hot water and dissolve 200 grams of mustard in it, then stir and leave to infuse for three hours.
Then the infusion needs to be filtered, add 5 tablespoons of vinegar and 50 grams of liquid laundry soap.
Used for spraying at intervals of once every 7 days.
Against slugs
Gastropods attack vegetables, berries and greens, which you don’t really want to treat with chemicals. In this case, it is enough to just sprinkle the plants and the bed with mustard powder. The interval is once every 7 days.
Against butterflies
A mixture of a glass of crushed tobacco and the same amount of dry mustard is used against winged insects. The mixture should be dissolved in 10 liters of water and left to infuse for three days.
Then the infusion is filtered and used to treat plantings at intervals of once every 2 weeks.
