Summer residents claim that aphids do not appear on their own and that their appearance is necessarily preceded by the appearance of ants.
Be that as it may, you have to fight pests either with the help of chemicals or folk remedies.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to get rid of the pest without chemicals.
The Insidious Aphid
Aphids are scary because of their numbers and appetite. Hordes of small and voracious insects cause significant damage to cultivated plants.
Any gardener and vegetable grower should be prepared that after removing the parasites, they may return again.
Folk method
Experienced gardeners say that their method can be used almost regularly and that it cannot cause any harm to the plantings.
We are talking about smoke - they say that aphids cannot stand smoke.
How to proceed
If you are not a beekeeper and do not have a smoker, then an ordinary tin can will do.
Make several holes in it, place a rag soaked in vegetable oil inside, and set it on fire.
Extinguish any open flames and leave the rags to smolder in a jar, which can be hung from a tree, bush, or placed in a garden bed.
The main thing is that the smoke is thick and abundant.
The developers of this method claim that it is enough to fumigate the plants attacked by aphids for just a minute and the parasites will die.
Earlier we talked about why experienced gardeners mulch radishes .
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
