Mustard powder on a kitchen garden

Not many gardeners know that mustard powder can act not only as a seasoning for dishes, but also a great help to combat pests in the area.
But most interesting is that the effectiveness of it is the same as the chemicals, or even better, but the damage to plants and people does not, that is certainly a plus, but about the cheapness, I generally keep quiet.
Let's move on to specific recipes against pests.

Aphid

I'm sure you've heard, and some even faced with aphids.
So now you can safely breathe, because the mustard powder to cope with it without any problems.
Take 10 liters of water, adding to her 50-60 grams of powder, give a solution to infuse for several days after each liter of solution, add one liter of water, and can proceed to the glaze.

Scarred plants are treated every 1.5-2 weeks before the complete destruction of the pest.

Colorado beetle

As for me, mustard powder has the most effect on the Colorado potato beetle, if you ever have met face-to-face with this malicious threat, then you know that can not cope with it so just.

To deal with it, we take:
10 liters of boiled water
Bite 3 tablespoons (7% -9%)
250-300 grams of mustard powder

All move in the water and wait a few hours to cool it and you are ready to process.
We treat several times a week.

slugs

With this pest is a little easier, even in large quantities and dangerous, but you can cope with them without any problems directly powder.
Just sprinkle their habitats, trails, ranks among the beds and after a while slugs if it was not on your site.

That's how much benefit could eventually bring an ordinary mustard powder.

I recommend reading:
Soda in the garden - 3 useful applications in the fall
Where you can use the ashes in the garden in the fall.

If you liked the article,place thumbs upandsubscribe to the channel,to keep abreast of news from the world of gardening and horticulture, there is still a lot of interesting things.