Potatoes are a very popular culture among Russians for growing. Unfortunately, pests love him and. These insects can ruin your entire crop.
The main pests of potatoes are:
Colorado beetle.
Bear.
Potato nematode.
Wireworm, or beetle-shredkun.
Naked slugs.
Potato processing from the Colorado beetle
Colorado beetles — dangerous pests. They eat leaves and harm potatoes tubers. Moreover, not only adult beetles are dangerous, but also their larvae. These insects cause terrible harm to the crop. They feel especially good in hot weather. Also contributes to their development a long growing culture in the same place.
It is advisable to start the struggle with the beetle already with the appearance of the first seedlings. Look at the surface of the soil and sprouts, when you find the individuals of pests, collect them in a jar with a solution of salt or with diesel fuel. If you are a victim of the mass invasion of the Colorado beetle, you can safely use pesticides, but remember that the last spraying is recommended to be carried out a month before harvesting.
A good way to destroy beetles is to plant plants-reinforcements. It is recommended to sow potatoes along with legumes or garlic seeds. Just throw their seeds into the hole with potatoes, and you will be calm for your crop. Insects do not like the smell of calendula, so it can also be planted between rows.
When irrigation of potato bushes, they usually take a home -made solution of ordinary wormwood or celandine. To prepare the first, you need to fill one third of the bucket with stems of wormwood and pour just boiled water. Insist the solution for three days. The celandine just needs to be kept in boiling water for about a quarter of an hour, after which they treat the plant, first diluting with water in relation to 1:20.
The most effective method of preventing the invasion of beetles can be called the planting of potatoes on plant mulch.
How to get rid of a bear
The bear lives almost everywhere. This pest shifting the roots and stems of plants. Both small and already adults are equally voracious. Medved women make minks in the ground and leave their eggs in them, of which larvae hatch after 14 days.
These pests do not like the smell of chrysanthemums, so it is recommended to dig their sprouts to seedlings. In the spring it is necessary to check the soil for the presence of channels and minks. Medved women dig up new passages for ventilation. To destroy them, it is necessary to regularly loosen the soil.
A good way to destroy insects is to pour a solution of any powder for washing into their minks (4 tablespoons of powder per 10 liters of water). The bear will crawl out, then they can be assembled and exterminated. Insects that remain inside will die there. Instead of a solution of powder, you can use the crushed shell of chicken egg with the addition of sunflower oil.
The fight against potato nematode
Potato Nematode belongs to round worms. Despite the small size of the pest (less than a millimeter), it is very dangerous, destroys the roots and tubers of potatoes. The sheet turns yellow, the nodules become small. The main thing is to prevent the spread of its detrimental effects on the site. Bushes that are already affected must be dug with the ground, burn in the fire. The newly assembled harvest must be washed, and garden tools are cleaned with formalin.
Winter rye will destroy the Nematode due to the substances highlighted by it. It is recommended to plant it to cleanse the site.
There are a large number of varieties of potatoes that are resistant to these pests. Despite this, it is recommended not to plant potatoes on the same site for more than 4 years, since the Nematode can adapt and will hit even special varieties.
How to fight a wireworm
Wireworms, they are also beetle-shreds, affect the roots and lower part of the stem, but they cause special harm to the most patch tuber. The pest makes the moves, gnawing it. This leads to rotting.
Lasing of the soil will help get rid of the wireworm, as it feels good only in acidic and raw soil. A simple way of lime is to scatter a crushed egg shell across the area. To collect beetles, you can dig up special pits and fill them with hay, overwhelmed with grass, cover with boards on top. Such pits will attract the attention of the larvae of the wireworm, and you will only have to gently collect them and burn them.
A good way to get rid of the pest is to alternate the ranks of potatoes with bobov rows, peas. You need to use deep digging of the soil so that the beetle larvae are on the surface and die from the cold.
How to deal with naked slug
Naked slugs are workers with hard tongue and sharp teeth, with which they make holes in the leaflets and eat the tuber. Very common in lowlands on clay and loam.
The process of extermination of slugs is a difficult task. The simplest solution is the manufacture of traps. For this, wet rags, scraps of boards or plywood are laid out on the site, all this attracts slugs. Once every few days the traps are checked, and the slugs found in them are destroyed.
Another method consists in pollinating plants with a fra-gun lime, to which a little tobacco dust is added. The procedure is better to carry out in the evening when the slugs crawl out.
It should be remembered that the slugs also have a favorable effect — they destroy rotten plants, so it is recommended to leave a small amount of them on the site.