How to get rid wireworms: working methods of the envy of his neighbor
Russian Emperor-father Peter had introduced first in Russia a lot of nasty things: coffee beans, syphilis, Colorado potato beetle and wireworms... To put up with the fact that three hundred years in the lives potato wireworms I did not want, and have tried a bunch of ways to get rid.
This article will tell you only the ones that work. This is so you do not have filled the same cones that filled once I have in my garden!
First, Who is wireworms? (And what it eats)
Wireworm called the young larvae of click beetles, which has a copper-yellow hue. From May to June, the females of most beetles lay their eggs in the weed roots. You probably have seen them white eggs when the twitching couch.
After 20-30 days, the eggs hatch into larvae, they and devour our potatoes with you!
How to get rid wireworms?
Particularly clever fellow in the internets write that before planting the potatoes need to make superphosphate under the tuber - and wireworms die. I am not a supporter of Chemistry, my folk methods (This is what a substance if it dies in pest ?!)
Tip number "one"
When I dig a potato harvest in the fall (as it is now), I carefully sort out all the roots of weeds - or they lay eggs in the spring beetle.
Tip number "two"
And in the spring, when planting potatoes in the bottom of each well I stack a handful of onion peel (best is normal, yellow onions).
Tip number "three"
Wife puts around the beds of potatoes their marigolds - and beautiful, and eliminates from wireworm
Tip number "four"
If wireworms suddenly it does not take - it is necessary to take biological enemy - worms "hookworm nemabakt". These predators devour wireworms as the crackling of worth - no one is left.