On sour sorrel there are a lot of insects wishing to eat fresh greens and roots. To protect the bushes you can use proven folk remedies.
Recipes are easy to manufacture, require a minimum amount of time. Prepared from the available ingredients that are always at hand.
The article will analyze in detail what folk remedies to pour sorrel from pests, as well as how to deal with them on their own and provide reliable protection.
Advantages and disadvantages of processing in this way
Among the advantages of methods:
- Safety for plants and humans.
- Naturalness
- A variety of recipes and tools.
- Availability and low cost raw materials.
- Large range of action.
Minuses:
- Sometimes a few days have to wait for the result.
- The need for repeated treatments.
- Incomplete effect in case of mass invasion of pests, in advanced cases.
How to protect and treat?
In the arsenal of folk remedies a wide variety of ingredients available. Infusions, decoctions, powders are prepared from natural ingredients and home remedies.
Wood ash
When slugs and snails appear on the sorrel, wood ash is used.. It is also used to control and prevent such pests:
- Aphid.
- Caterpillars of the sorrel sawfly.
- Scoops.
- Pliers.
The composition of the tool includes up to 30 minerals. The most important are potassium, calcium, magnesium and sodium. It is scattered in a thin layer or powdered soil. Pollinated with dry powder sockets do not like the base of insects.
When pests appear on the leaves, a universal solution is prepared.:
- 300 grams of ash.
- 10 liters of water.
Boil for 10-15 minutes, then filter and irrigate the plants at least once a week.
Against aphid ash recipe:
- 3 kg of ash powder pour 10 liters of water.
- Let it brew for 2 days.
- Filter through gauze fabric.
- Bring in 40 grams of rubbed tar soap for better adhesion.
Frequency spraying 1 time in 5-6 days.
Sorrel sawfly actively eats sorrel greens. Caterpillars destroy leaves completely. To save the bushes apply ash extract, to which chamomile and soap are added. Irrigation is carried out 1 time per week..
Tobacco ash
Dust tobacco disorienting insects, drowning out the smell of sorrel. Helps to cope with a whole set of pests:
- Thrips.
- Sawflies
- Pliers.
- Ants
- Aphid.
Tobacco is a good prophylactic.
Applications and recipes:
- Infusion. 50 g of ash insist in warm water for 1 day. Strain and dilute 1 to 2. Add rubbed soap for better adhesion.
- Decoction. 100 g of powder is poured into 10 liters of water. Boil for 30 minutes. Let it brew for 20-24 hours. Filter, Add to 1 part of a concentrated solution of 3 parts of water. For sticking -1/3 bar of soap.
- Dry ash. Carefully powder the leaves and the tops of the sockets. Dosage of 40-50 g per 10 m2.
- Fumigation. Next to the bed put a container with glowing coals. Pour 500 grams of dust.
Onion Husk
Onion scales - a notable assistant in pest control and prevention. It is used against:
- Aphids.
- Bedbugs.
- Sawflies
Onion peel is a good remedy in the fight against Medvedka. When infecting the site shed infusion. Proven recipes:
- 250 g husks per 10 liters of water. Let it brew for 2 days. After straining, the beds are immediately treated.
- 150 g per 10 l insist 5 days. Strain and spray.
- 200 g per 10 liters of heated water. Infusion time 24 hours.
Re-processing is carried out in 3-5 days.
4-5 prophylactic irrigations are allowed during the season.
Garlic
Garlic smell afraid of many insects that affect sorrel bushes:
- Thrips.
- Bed bugs.
- Caterpillars
- Ticks.
- Aphid.
In the forms of infusions are widely used for prevention. Medvedka is a malicious pest of sorrel. Roughly damages the root system and leads to the drying of the bushes. To combat it, fresh peeled garlic cloves are buried in the ground. Positioned at a distance of 5 cm around the plants.
Effective recipes:
- Garlic gruel diluted with water 1 K1. In a closed container insist 8 days. To spray the bushes 20 g of the infusion is dissolved in 10 liters.
- 100 g of finely chopped garlic is added to 10 liters of liquid. After 24 hours, filter.
Irrigated with an interval of 7-10 days. Used as a prophylactic 1-2 times per month.
Soda
Alkali is a good substitute for insecticides against caterpillars of whitefly, sawflies, scoops, aphids, slugs. For the treatment of infected shrubs mixed:
- 5 tbsp. soda
- 10 liters of water.
- 2 tbsp. rubbed or liquid soap.
Irrigation is carried out several times with an interval of 3-4 days until the caterpillars completely disappear.. You can use the powder to dust the leaves. The procedure is carried out in the early morning, while there is dew.
Against the invasions of aphids spend soda shower, abundantly wetting the leaves in the working solution:
- 3 tbsp. soda
- 10 liters of water.
- ½ a pack of laundry soap.
Mustard powder
If the beds with sorrel were attacked by slugs or snails, dry mustard powder is used. Highly effective in dry form. It is poured around the bushes and between the rows. The procedure is repeated after 5 days.
Mustard powder is used against:
- Trips.
- Pliers.
- Aphids.
- Sawflies
A positive effect occurs after the first treatment. For a stable result, spraying is repeated up to 3 times. If you use mustard at the beginning of the season, you can permanently withdraw from the site of ants.
To get rid of the invasion of aphids and caterpillars on the basis of mustard, prepare an infusion:
- Dilute 100 g of powder in 500 ml of liquid to a slurry.
- Poured into 10 liters of water.
- Add 40 g of soap.
- Insist 2 days at 23-25 degrees.
- Stir and dilute 1 to 1.
With mild to moderate infection with aphids, 100 g of powder per bucket will suffice. If there are a lot of aphids, all the bushes are densely covered with parasites, a more concentrated infusion is prepared - 200 g per 10 l. When processing sprayed so that the tool must fall on the bottom surface of the leaf blade.
A suspension of mustard powder is poured between the rows and sprayed with the most sticky aphids rosettes. To obtain - in 10 l of water add 6 tbsp. powder. Irrigated beds 2-3 times with an interval of a week. With the preventive purpose, the treatment is carried out 1 time in 2 weeks-1 month.
Strengthen the effect of mustard powder by adding to the infusion:
- Salt.
- Soap solution.
- Vinegar
Laundry soap
Soap is a powerful pest control tool in itself. The chances of a complete victory increase when combined with mustard, ash, salt. On the surface of leaf blades, soap forms a solid film that insects cannot gnaw through. The soap is crushed or grated in advance.
How to prepare a solution:
- Boil 1 liter of water.
- In boiling water add 1 / 3-1 / 2 bar of soap.
- Insist 3 days.
Potassium permanganate
Low potassium permanganate is an excellent tool for treating sorrel against pests.
To disinfect the beds spill before planting 1% solution.
For the purpose of prevention, you can water the beds 1 time per month.. Treatment from pests - aphids, caterpillars, spend more concentrated means, 3-5 g per 10 liters of liquid.
Bell pepper
Tincture of hot pepper get rid of a number of pests:
- Larvae of small beetles.
- Caterpillars
- Slug.
- Aphids.
- Trips.
Spraying is carried out with a solution that is prepared immediately before processing. Cooking options:
- Infusion. It will take 1 kg of pods. Fruits are crushed, shifted to 10 liters of water. Insist 10 days. Before use, dilute 100 ml in 10 l. add soap solution.
- Decoction of dry pods. 100 g of raw material is boiled in 1 liter under the lid for 1-1.5 hours. Dilute to a working solution of 1 to 10.
- Fresh fruit decoction. 100 g boiled in 1 liter of liquid. Allow to infuse for up to 48 hours. Before irrigation 50 ml diluted in 10 liters.
In what cases it is necessary to spray and water chemistry?
Insecticides are resorted to:
- With mass infection.
- Resistance of insects to processing.
- The death of the bushes in the early stages of the growing season.
- The sharp decline in productivity.
Insects can destroy up to 50% or more sorrel landings. Environmentally friendly folk recipes effectively help in the fight against pests. With their help, you can get a safe harvest of sorrel and spend a minimum of funds.
