How I Use Celandine for Weed Control and Abundant Yields. I recommend to all
The ubiquitous plant celandine is well known in folk medicine, but a few years ago I also began to actively use it for my garden.
The fact is that the composition of celandine contains many unique chemicals - these are saponins, acids, essential oils, flavonoids, bitterness, as well as a number of alkaloids - protopin, chelidonin, homohelidonin. There are other elements in it.
It is scientifically proven that the products from it are not inferior to many store-bought drugs for pest control and increasing yields, but unlike them - celandine is actually free, harmless to humans, nature and harvest.
Celandine is especially useful from cabbage whites, scoops, aphids, cruciferous fleas, gooseberry moths, thrips, leafworms, honeydew.
For processing from these and many other types, you need to prepare an infusion of 3 kg of fresh celandine or 1 kg of dried celandine, infused in 1 bucket of water for 36 hours. So it is really possible to save the future harvest from the parasites that have just appeared on the site.
Fresh celandine herb can be used as mulch, which decomposes and gradually enriches the soil with useful substances.
The processing of planting material of vegetable crops with celandine infusion has a positive effect on the development of seedlings and, accordingly, the future yield.
To do this, you need to insist 0.5 kg of fresh celandine or 0.2 g of dried in 1 bucket of water for 48 hours, and then soak the seeds in this solution for 2-3 hours. And I want to warn you right away - the method is only for seeds, that is, it is not suitable for potatoes and onions.
As for celandine and weeds, it is useless to water the place where they grow with infusion or decoction. To destroy weeds, celandine should be planted on the site, especially where there is a struggle with weed perennials for more than one season.
By the end of the year, the powerful root and strong aboveground parts of celandine will suppress their development and next season, if desired, this piece of land can be cultivated.
At the end of the topic, I want to note that it is necessary to collect and prepare celandine with gloves, observing precautions, that is, after it you cannot touch open areas of the body!
Because if the juice of the plant gets on the skin, it can cause inflammation, a severe allergic reaction.