The correct application of vinegar on the garden. Huge help beginners cottagers

Few people realize that vinegar can be used not only for its intended purpose (to add to the food), but also in other spheres of life.

Especially useful it will be available with the action of vinegar cottagers, gardeners. In some cases, it is simply irreplaceable, so I go to your country site - be sure to grab a couple of bottles with 9% vinegar.

1. Getting rid of pests

The most common in the area are: Colorado beetles, aphids, slugs, cabbage. Few people want to deal with them with chemicals, because you want to crop was environmentally friendly. Here come to the aid and common vinegar.

• To defeat the Colorado potato beetle need 100 ml of vinegar and 200 g of mustard, all this is diluted with 10 liters water and in dry calm weather with this solution it is necessary to process the infected plants and soil near them.

• From aphids will help get rid of the vinegar diluted with water (about 200 at the bucket), can be added to a little chip of soap or shampoo for animals against fleas and ticks.
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• From the cabbage, as well as shovels and crucifer flea beetles, a simple aqueous solution of vinegar. Suffice it to 50-100 ml per 8 liters of ordinary water.
• To combat slugs is best to use apple cider vinegar at the rate of 1: 3.

2. germinated seeds

The seeds germinate quickly and not moldy, you must prepare a weak solution of vinegar 1: 9, to moisten the gauze in this solution and put the seeds.

• for pumpkin, zucchini and cucumbers enough 7:00;
• for tomato, eggplant, peppers - 12 hours;
• carrot, parsley, dill - 24 hours.

Then the seeds are dried and planted in the prepared ground.

3. destroy weeds

Perhaps even more than the weeds pests bother cottagers on their weeding is necessary to spend a lot of time and effort. But they can be simply treated with a special mixture and they themselves wither.

For the preparation of this mixture necessary to use 1 liter of boiling water, to which is added 2 tablespoons of salt, 5 tablespoons of vinegar and a bit of liquid soap.

Watered with the solution you need to immediately do the weeds, avoiding contact with the crop plants. This is best done watering can with a fine spout or by spraying.

After this treatment, the weeds start to dry up on the second day.

4. We are fighting with mice

Very often in a country house infest rodents, but they also like ants and cockroaches can not stand the smell of vinegar.

Therefore, they fill small containers and place around the cottages. Mice quickly leave this room.