Mustard and vinegar against the Colorado potato beetle: proportions and reviews

What techniques only do not use gardeners to get rid of uninvited guest from america: from store-bought potent insecticides to folk methods of pest destruction. Recipes during the expansion of the American parasite on the European continent accumulated a decent amount and choose an effective method is not easy.In some recipes for getting rid of the pest, dry mustard and table vinegar are indicated as effective substances for expelling parasites from the vegetable garden. Mustard and vinegar against the Colorado potato beetle are used as ingredients in the solution.

How to destroy beetle mustard powder

A culinary condiment powder is not a bane. If you process the potatoes with mustard powder, Colorado beetle will not die. The spice only repels the insect, and its larvae do not like the bitter taste. The use of dry mustard from the Colorado potato beetle on potatoes is not difficult: sprinkle dry powder on the ground between the rows and carefully powder the leaves on the plants.

To prepare the infusion will take several days. Several methods of making infusion at home:

1. A 100-gram pack of seasoning is stirred in a couple liters of cold water and allowed to infuse for several days. After infusion, filter and add to a full 10-liter bucket.
2. The same 100 gram packing of powder is poured with 2 liters of boiling water. This reduces the preparation of infusion to 1 day. Further steps to prepare the composition are similar to the first recipe.
3. If you use two packages at once on a bucket of water, you can get a concentrated suspension, which is not used for spraying, and the potato bushes are watered under the root.

On a note!

If in the composition prepared according to the first two recipes, 60 g of alkaline soap is dissolved, the effectiveness of the infusion will significantly increase. The suspension allows you to get rid not only of the Colorado pest, but also from the wireworms and slugs living in the earth.

Plus these folk remedies in their absolute safety for people, birds and the environment.

Mustard from the Colorado potato beetle

More complex compounds

Folk remedy mustard and vinegar from the Colorado potato beetle exists in two versions. How many grams of powder will be required for the solution. depends on the method of preparation:

1. A 10-liter bucket of water takes 100 grams of powder and 100 ml of 9 percent table vinegar. All thoroughly mixed and topped up with a bucket of water.
2. In a 10-liter bucket stir 200 g of powder and leave to infuse in a warm place for 12 hours. When the infusion is ready, add 150-200 g of alcohol vinegar.

On a note!

You can find a recipe for mustard and vinegar from the Colorado potato beetle, which requires 1 kg of mustard powder, 100 ml of table vinegar and a bucket of water.But gardeners express reasonable doubts that such a mixture will not burn potato bushes.

Another recipe suggests using equal proportions of mustard and vinegar against the Colorado potato beetle. In this case, 100 g of each ingredient are taken for 10 liters of water.

How to apply

For fighting the colorado potato beetle mustard and vinegar there are certain rules:

• if spraying potatoes with mustard is required, the prepared infusion must first be filtered in order not to clog the spray nozzle;
• treatment should be carried out in the evening, as under the action of sunlight the composition quickly loses its properties;
• for spraying choose a windless evening, so that the composition is better laid down on the leaves;
• in the leaves, not only the upper side is treated, but also the lower side, in order to poison the mustard and vinegar of the larvae;
• if they didn’t guess the weather and it started to rain, the treatment will have to be repeated.

Important! The solution is suitable for use within 3 hours after preparation. Then the vinegar component evaporates.

Mustard and vinegar from the Colorado potato beetle

Acetic acid softens the chitin shell of beetles and larvae, so it is better to poison the Colorado potato beetle with mustard and vinegar.To obtain greater efficiency in this composition add:

• infusion of wormwood;
• infusion of garlic;
• infusion of onion peel;
• turpentine;
• laundry soap.

Ingredients of folk remedies with mustard on potatoes can vary, as well as the percentage ratio of components. Gardeners are constantly experimenting in an attempt to find the most effective composition.

Reviews

I tried to treat potatoes with mustard and vinegar. The pests "said thank you and invited me to come in with a treat." No bitterness and smell do not bother them.

Nikolay, Rostov-on-Don

We manage to get rid of the Colorado potato beetle with the help of mustard and vinegar, but we use this tool in a complex and use it during repeated processing. The first time we sprinkle potatoes with walnuts infusion before the appearance of Colorado. But the second time we use the composition "from home means of destruction", that is, from these homemade spices. But the second time the potatoes need to be sprayed strictly during flowering. For several years, grief do not know.

Svetlana, Rain

Living plants

To protect solanaceous crops, many gardeners plant mustard seeds in the aisle.A shrub can not poison the pests, but its essential oils provide for etching from the beds not only all garden pests, but also their enemies at the same time. But to earthworms, this plant provides a favorable environment for life.

Mustard bush grows quickly, blooms profusely. If the seed for sowing in the right places is not enough, you can cut the flowers from the mustard bush and scatter them on unprotected potato beds.