Spring has come, with which I congratulate you

Soon we will start planting potatoes, and a month after planting, we will fight the Colorado potato beetle. Right?

And then the annual running around the shops will begin in order to acquire the most effective and popular means of combating this overseas pest.

Last year, I witnessed a single use of a home remedy that drove out the bugs for an entire season.

But first, a backstory...

Folk remedy for the Colorado potato beetle

It was in June. I am doing my own business in the yard ... It was getting dark ...

Then my neighbor Uncle Kolya comes to me.

“You should close the windows in the house,” he says.

— ???

- I'm going to poison the beetle! Stinky-I-I thing! The wind is blowing in your direction. I warn you in advance!!!

Of course I got worried. You never know what rubbish he bought there! I missed a local chemical attack here!

And Uncle Kolya said:

At the end of May, when the tops of potatoes barely appeared from the ground, the Colorado potato beetle was already right there. Someone advised Uncle Kolya to collect beetles, fill them with water, let them stand for a couple of weeks and process potato tops with this liquid.

And so he did. With the help of a broom and a small bucket, I cut a half-liter jar of beetles from 5 acres of a vegetable garden.

I poured them into a 10-liter old plastic bucket, filled it with 2/3 water, covered it with a lid and safely forgot about it for 3 weeks.

I remembered this potion by accident. There was a very bad smell in the yard. For a long time I could not understand where the source of the stench was, until the same bucket caught my eye. As it turned out, out of curiosity, the grandson decided to look into the bucket, and lifting the lid, he was stunned by the “amazing” aroma, but put the lid unevenly on the bucket. And the smell spread throughout the yard.

Before using this special equipment, a neighbor came to warn me. Imagine - this rubbish will flood 5 acres !!!

The use of funds from the Colorado beetles

To process potato tops, he diluted this remedy as follows: for 10 liters of tap water - a liter jar of the very smelly substance filtered through gauze.

And then the treatment is like a conventional pesticide: I poured the solution into a sprayer, put on a respirator and went to the garden to “feed” the Colorado beetles.

Yeees! That evening, there really was a very unpleasant "smell" in the area. But by morning the stench was gone, and with it the beetle!

Throughout the garden, the beetle was lying on the ground, as if after treatment with standard "chemistry". But the most interesting thing is that during the whole summer, the Colorado beetles did not appear in his garden anymore! Just one treatment!

With the rest of the solution, Uncle Kolya processed the plum, on which aphids began to start. The effect is the same - the pest is defeated. This year, the neighbor plans, in addition to potatoes, to process all the trees in the garden.

I do not grow potatoes, and therefore the Colorado potato beetle does not bother me. But I like the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bcultivating the garden in order to combat aphids and other worms. You will have to help your neighbor in collecting the first beetles - in order to ferment such a folk special tool for yourself.

 If this advice helps you, I will be glad. Good luck with pest control!