Surely many gardeners, vegetable growers and summer residents who grow onions have encountered the problem of the onion fly.
This harmful creation of nature lays eggs in the garden bed, from which voracious larvae emerge, eating the onion heads from the inside.
The consequences of such a brazen attack on your plant are its death, and naturally, it is impossible to eat the bulbs.
Wood ash will help get rid of the pest. Mix 1 kilo of the substance with 1 kilo of tobacco dust, put it in a container with 5 tablespoons of soda poured into it.
Having completed these simple procedures, we mix everything thoroughly and then sprinkle the beds.
It is important to remember here: this mixture should be applied two or three times in May-June – immediately after planting, before the fly lays its larvae.
Ash is also useful because, in addition to protecting against this pest, it stimulates metabolic processes, ensuring better plant growth.
And, by the way, the mixture will protect you not only from flies. Thanks to soda and tobacco, aphids, slugs, and weevils will forget the way to your onions forever.
