Processed bushes of black currant in March of hot boiling water on aphid and mite
In March, it's time to take care of your garden plot. To the entire season did not deal with aphids and spider, bud mite in the currants, the bushes need to be processed with boiling water already in the early spring.
These pests damage the leaves of shrubs and young shoots, so the impact on productivity of currants for the worse. A bud mites also are carriers of viral disease virus (curl).
Aphids are very prolific, it gives a lot of generations per season. It can flood your whole garden by climbing on fruit trees: apples, cherries, plums, pears. It is better to handle the bushes when the snow until it formed a puddle of melting snow, or get close to the bushes will be more difficult.
What you need
rope;
boiling water;
watering can;
kettle or large saucepan.
Step-by-step instruction
1. First of all, you need to tie a rope into a pile of bushes, to accurately hit the boiling water on the branches, not overflowed wasted. Hot water flow will be much less.
Pruning is best done after treatment with boiling water the bushes.
2. Boil water in a kettle several times, as required 5 liters per one adult bush currant. You can immediately boil water in a large pan.
3. Shed on top of watering bush, affecting all the branches, do not miss any. The procedure should be carried out carefully so as not to get burned.
4. View watered bush for the presence of untreated plots. If there are not spilled place, then pour hot water and.
As a result of irrigation destroyed to 90 percent of the larvae of pests.
The larvae of aphids overwinter kidney currants. Try to cut the branch and bring it home, putting in water. For positive room temperatures soon you will notice that the kidney will be a pest, which can move and on your houseplants.
Do not be afraid that you will damage the kidneys boiling water. As long as they are in a "sleep" state, the hot water will not harm them. At the same time you water the plants is not wholly boiling water, because as long as you will carry it to the garden and fill with hot water, watering can, it has cooled slightly. But the larvae of pests will still die, because in any case they are sensitive to high temperatures.
Watering with boiling water can not be branches of bushes during the awakening and blossoming.
Also will not affect the root system of hot water, as hot water is in contact with the ground frozen, it cools rapidly. Therefore, to burn the plant roots will not work.
Thus, treating currant bushes boiling water, you get rid of unwanted pests for the entire season of 90 percent.
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