If you want to protect your plantings from the Colorado potato beetle, try to change your method every year.
Over time, this pest stops responding even to highly toxic industrial compounds.
However, folk methods can also provide significant assistance in matters of garden protection.
What options might be useful to you?
Celandine
This plant is often used to create pest control products, says Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert at the online publication BelNovosti, an agronomist and landscape designer.
If you don’t have time to prepare special mixtures, you can simply pick some celandine and use it as mulch.
Sawdust
Not everyone knows that Colorado beetles do not like the smell of some types of wood. We are talking about pine and birch. In the first period after germination, sawdust is changed every week and a half.
And then you can replace the material every 30 days.
Corn flour
Many believe that this product can become an analogue of poison for beetles. The advantage of flour is that it is absolutely safe.
Early in the morning, the plantings need to be powdered.
A positive effect is observed only when using corn flour.
