The fight with the Colorado potato beetle

Colorado beetle - one of the most formidable pests in our gardens. It affects the nightshade cultures - eggplants, tomatoes, peppers, but most of all it suffers from planting potatoes, because of what it is called a potato beetle. If you do not take measures, this gluttonous insect completely nibbles the leaves of plants, bring irreparable harm to the future harvest. That's why gardeners take up all possible means against the Colorado beetle. Let's learn about how to protect your landings from it.

Colorado potato beetle - ways to fight

The struggle with the Colorado potato beetle suggests many different ways:

1. Manual collection of a beetle is the simplest and at the same time a safe method. It is necessary to go out to the garden several times a day (preferably in hot hours) and collect beetles that like to bask on the outside of the leaves of the potato, and at the same time and eat them. Insects should be immediately destroyed.
2. The most effective is the use of insecticides for potatoes from the Colorado beetle. These include drugs such as Prestige , Colorado, Confidor, Marshal, Inta-VIR, Decis, Sonet, Karate, Akarin, Fitoverm and t .P. These and similar drugs are very effective. However, remember that any chemicals are poisonous, and you should work with them with great care. Process potatoes with insecticides followed by a special sprayer and using personal protective equipment.
3. It's good practice to powder the potato bushes with ashes . As a result, after a few days, adult beetles and their larvae die. Use the ashes at the rate of 10 kg per 1 hundred square meters of land. There are two periods of processing potatoes from the Colorado potato beetle: before and after flowering. Pollinate the plants every 2 weeks, and after the potato is faded, you can repeat the procedure once a month. Ideally, if you have a lot of wood (especially birch) ash, it can also be scattered between bushes. This will keep pests from your potatoes for a long time.
4. Also, the ash can be added to a solution of laundry soap (1 bar per bucket of water). Ashes should take 2 liter cans, insist 15 minutes and then stir 1 l of this infusion in a bucket of clean water. Experienced gardeners recommend doing the spraying weekly until the Colorado beetle leaves your garden.
5. You can powder Solanaceous not only with ashes, but with other substances as well, for example, with corn flour . Wetting, it can grow much in size. This property of corn flour is used to protect the potato from the Colorado beetle. Getting into the digestive system of an insect, the flour causes his death.
6. As for the dusting of potatoes with dry gypsum or cement , this method is also practiced, but its safety remains questionable. However, those who practice this method, argue that it is a guarantee of complete destruction of the beetle larvae.
7. Sensitive pest originates from Colorado and to the smell of fresh wood. In order to scare away the beetle, every 2 weeks, sprinkle the aisles with fresh pine sawdust or birch. After flowering culture, this can be done 2 times less often.
8. Many summer residents neglect mixed plantings , and completely in vain. Sometimes this method can be decisive in the fight against the Colorado potato beetle. Plant inside the garden and around it an ordinary calendula - and the pests themselves will bypass your potato side.
9. But a plant like wormwood , it is recommended to use in the form of infusion for spraying the garden . Try and this method to make sure its effectiveness against the beetle.