How to dilute birch tar spraying from aphids
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- Birch tar aphid
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- Application of birch tar
WITH aphids - the most dangerous enemy of gardens and orchards had firsthand encounter many summer residents. Fruit trees and shrubs usually infect green aphids, black ones settle on legumes, and helihrizous aphids are dangerous for stone fruit trees. Today in the windows of gardening shops you can find a lot of different chemicalsdesigned to combat malicious insects. Despite the high efficiency of pesticides, they can adversely affect the quality of the fruit, making them unsuitable for consumption. Therefore, many gardeners prefer folk remedies. One of such time-tested funds is birch tar from aphids. The following cultures can be processed:
- fruit trees (including Apple tree, pear, plum and cherry);
- roses;
- currant;
- cucumbers;
- tomatoes;
- pepper;
- cabbage;
- viburnum;
- dill;
- raspberries other.
Special features
Birch tar is a viscous oily mass of dark brown color, with a sharp specific odor. It is obtained from birch bark, which is strongly heated in a hermetically sealed container. The result of the oxidation process is a natural substance with antiseptic, antimicrobial, sanitizing and antiparasitic properties.
Due to this, this tool has become unique and has found wide application not only in cosmetology and traditional medicine, but also in veterinary medicine and gardening. This is an excellent biological repellent that frightens off many different garden pests.
On a note!
Birch tar is good to use for aphids in the garden. The tar aroma is also effective from antswireworm BearsMay and Colorado potato beetle, moles and rodents.
Many may have questions, how to dilute birch tar, or how to spray tar. Below are the most popular recipes using this unique natural repellent.
Tar solution
Tar against aphids can be used as a solution. For its preparation take on 10 liters of water 10-15 g of tar and 50 g laundry soap. The solution is thoroughly mixed and used for spraying infected plants, before and after their flowering. The treatment is carried out with the help of a spray gun in the evening.
A similar solution is prepared from tar soap. In 10 l of liquid it is necessary to dissolve ½ piece of crushed tar soap and 5 tbsp. l the tar. Such a composition should be sprayed damaged aphids bushes or seedlings, especially carefully treating the lower surface of the leaves.
On a note!
Tar soap is made on the basis of birch tar, therefore, all healing antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties are preserved in it.
Ash with Ash
You can use aphid tar on trees and bushes. It is mixed with wood ash and the mixture is coated with tree trunks. Such a composition and pest scare, and prevent the development of viral infections.
Belts impregnated with birch tar
Apply tar from aphids and ants on fruit trees and in another way. A wide bandage wraps the trunks of the trees, after smearing it with birch tar. This kind of repellent belt is an excellent protection of plantings from pests throughout the season.
Soil mulching
To get rid of aphids in the garden will help tar mulch. Pressed sawdust is plentifully moistened with birch tar and poured with boiling water. When wood chips increase in volume, they should mulch the soil, laying between the beds, around trees or under bushes.
You can purchase this unique natural repellent at any pharmacy kiosk.
Reviews
I learned about the scaring belts on trees soaked with birch tar from a neighbor. I decided to use this method in my garden. And he was very surprised by the result - there was no aphid on any leaflet during the season. Super remedy - effective, cheap, and most importantly safe for health.
Nikolay, Essentuki
To combat smoldering on tomatoes I use tar soap. I rub it on a grate and soak it in water until a homogeneous mass is formed. The resulting mixture is designed for 20 liters of water, which is enough for the treatment of my garden. I advise, very effective remedy!
Svetlana, Krasnoyarsk
In the greenhouse, the ants built an anthill, and then aphid appeared. Already wanted to buy chemistry, and the neighbor recommended to make a tar solution. Poured it in the anthill and sprayed the plants - neither ants nor aphids. Excellent tool, I recommend!
Yana, Astrakhan
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