Folk remedies to combat aphids. Are there any differences in the processing of indoor flowers and garden plants?

These small insects with excessive appetite bring a lot of trouble to the owners of land. However, pests do not disdain and domestic plants, causing them sometimes irreparable harm. But aphids, this dangerous enemy, can be dealt with - there are plenty of funds.

This article will discuss the use of folk remedies to combat this insect, and also describe how to use them in the processing of indoor flowers and plants in the garden and vegetable garden.

How to get rid of insects: advantages and disadvantages of these control methods

It would seem that folk remedies are good for everyone. The components are easy to find in the kitchen cabinet, pantry and pharmacy - whether it is soap, onion peels, garlic, chamomile or marigolds. It is easy to knead the broth and absolutely any can cope with it, and there is no harm to the person from the cooked. In addition, the prepared compounds not only solve the problem of pests, but also saturate the soil and plants with nutrients.

However, in this barrel of honey there is a fly in the ointment. Quite small, but substantial. It happens that folk remedies can not cope with a horde of aphids. It is with him: you can destroy a small number of insects, but with a strong defeat of the crop, such means as herbs and tinctures will no longer help. Consider what folk remedies you can fight against aphids.

Ammonia

Inhalation of ammonia vapors leads to burns of the respiratory tract and gastric tract in insects, convulsions and paralysis. Ants do flee from their homes and stop caring for aphids.

• If you dilute a tablespoon of the substance in a bucket of lukewarm water and sprinkle with a solution of garlic and onion beds - the aphids will quickly disappear, and the “feathers” will come to life and begin to grow faster.
• For cucumbers, the recipe changes a bit: for 10 liters of water, take 1 large spoon of laundry soap and ammonia, a little soap foam, and spray the back of the leaves with a solution. The same composition is suitable for tomatoes, but the treatment is carried out not once, but twice, after 3-5 days.
• Roses and other decorative flowers are sprayed from the spray gun with the following composition: 1 tablespoon of ammonia, the same amount of soap solution and 5 liters of water.

Mustard solution

• The simplest and most straightforward recipe: dilute 100 g of powder in a bucket of water and spray the affected cultures. If there are a lot of aphids, you should take 2-3 times more powder.
• The recipe is more complicated: stir in a bucket of water on a spoonful of 70% vinegar and mustard powder. Vinegar can be replaced with iodized salt (100 g).

The composition is valid for 7 days, then the procedure should be repeated.

Processing with mustard does not give an instant effect, you will have to wait a few weeks and carry out the treatment 3 or even more times. In addition, its effect ends after the first rain.

Ash

Sift two glasses of ash, fill it with 10 liters of water and leave for a day in a dark, warm place under the lid. Separate 1 4 part of a piece of laundry soap separately. Mix formulations before processing. Adding 50 grams of finely chopped garlic and 100 grams of onions, you get a sharply smelling, but very effective composition.

Ammonia

Almost all cultures can be processed with ammonia:

• vegetables;
• berry bushes;
• fruit trees;
• flowering ornamental plants.

But in its pure form it can not be used: an excess of nitrogen causes the death of foliage. 5 ml of substance are taken per 1 liter of cold liquid, a soap base (tar, household or baby) is necessarily added.

Since ammonia quickly evaporates, it is necessary to prepare the mixture for processing before use, and not in advance.

Laundry soap

Caproic acid - the main active component of soap - destroys up to 90% of aphids even with a weakly concentrated solution.

1. Rub on a coarse grater 300 g of soap, pour 2 liters of hot water and stir until it is completely dissolved.
2. After - dilute with 8 liters of cold water and use.
3. You can add ash to the soap solution (but not during the flowering period of plants, otherwise the insects will not pollinate them), baking soda, tobacco, vegetable oil or fresh tomato tops.

All soap-based solutions can only be used chilled!

Green

Green soap is a natural insecticide based on natural fats, potassium salts and vegetable oils. They envelop the body of the pest, blocking the latter oxygen and preventing them from feeding. The product is not phytotoxic and safe for human health.

• 200 g of soap are dissolved in a liter of water, another 9 liters of liquid are added and the lower part of the leaves and stems are sprayed.
• In 100 g of soap, add 1 large spoon of black and red pepper, mustard.
• Boil 200 g of onion husk with boiling water, leave for 24 hours, add 100 g of soap.
• Cut fresh tops of tomato and potatoes, tansy, wormwood. Pour greens with 10 liters of boiling water, leave for 3 days under a lid in a dark place, boil for an hour and add soap.

Allowed to add the substance to any insecticide: 100 g per serving.

Ash and soap solution

Mix 50 g of soap and 1.5 kg of fresh ash, dissolve in boiling water, let it brew for an hour or two. Spray the affected plant every 2 weeksif there are many pests - every 5-7 days.

Vinegar

Vinegar also has enough fans. Using vinegar essence, they take more water (10 liters per tablespoon of the drug), and a liter is enough for table vinegar.

Mustard powder

If you want to drive away the ants, which are the main carriers of aphids, sprinkle with mustard powder the places of their collection. In the near future they will disappear.

Some more popular recipes

• Add half a cubic of iodine to 100 ml of milk, pour the solution into a liter of water, shake and spray the bushes.
• Grind 200 g of garlic finely, insist in a liter of water for 5 days, strain. For one spray, dilute 100 grams of infusion in 5 lira of warm water.
• One and a half kg of fresh potato tops, insist in 10 liters of water for 3-4 days, strain. Spray the garden every 5-7 days 2-3 times.
• Chop leaves and roots of horseradish, pour boiling water, cool, leave for 24 hours.
• Cut 2 pods of hot pepper, pour boiled water, leave for a day.
• Pour boiling water over a kilogram of pine needles, leave for a week, stirring every day. Dilute before the procedure in a ratio of 1: 1.
• Brew 100 g of dry stalks of chamomile pharmacy, add 4 g of soap shavings, dilute before spraying with water (1 to 3). You can replace chamomile with dandelion: 200 g of roots and 400 g of fresh leaves, insist 3-4 hours in a bucket of boiling water.
• Dissolve 10-15 drops of essential oils (tea tree, thyme, lavender, cedar) in 100 ml of cream, add 2 cups of water. Treat plants 2 times a day: morning and evening. You will see the first results after 3 days.

Since aphids accumulate especially densely on the underside of leaves and near the soil, in order to cope with it, these places need to be treated first and plentifully.

Differences in the processing of indoor flowers and plants in the garden

There are no significant differences, however, while working in the room, be sure to open all the windows and take away children and pets for a while.

If your house or garden has chosen aphids - do not give up. Make a little effort and you will save your site from aphids. And, of course, do not forget about the preventive measure: inspect seedlings and new plants brought into the house; observe the regime of watering and top dressing; remove affected parts on time.