Natural crop care products will always be valued higher, as they are generally safer for the human body.
One of such means is tobacco dust.
With the right approach, it can prove to be an indispensable assistant for a summer resident, says landscape designer and agronomist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert for the online publication BelNovosti.
One of the simplest uses is powdering.
How to perform the procedure correctly
General information
To do this, you need to grow a tobacco crop in advance. After collecting the plant material, it is carefully dried and crushed.
Mustard or ash can be added to the composition as needed.
Cruciferous
The product is indispensable for these crops. You just need to dust the beds. Only 20 grams of prepared dust are taken per square meter.
Slugs
To deal with the problem of these pests, shallow furrows should be made near the crops. Then we can safely fill them with dust.
It is believed that slugs will not be able to pass through such an obstacle.
Other pests
An effective remedy against raspberry beetles, strawberry leaf beetles, onion flies, caterpillars, onion hoverflies and others.
Earlier we talked about why experienced gardeners plant calendula on their plots .
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
