How to protect potatoes from wireworm: and why is it no one guessed
Peter the First had introduced in Russia a lot of useful crops: tomatoes (tomatoes), coffee, corn and potatoes, but with the latter with its historic homeland tagged along and pests: Colorado beetle and wireworms.
IN this article I will discuss ways in which I fought wireworm on its potato plantations. It is necessary to share the experience!
For starters, what wireworms?
wireworms - a beetle larvae, wireworms copper-yellow color, a pest that is most active in the ripening stage.
FROM May to July the female of click beetles crawl out of the ground and lay their eggs near the roots of weed - couch grass. You've probably seen those little white eggs lying in a heap on 3-5 pieces, when dug earth.
BErez 20-30 days the eggs hatch into larvae, and they begin to eat up some our potatoes.
How to deal with wireworm?
FROMovetchiki on the Internet say that from wireworm helps in making the earth granules of superphosphate before planting potatoes, but I am not a supporter of chemistry, and tell workers folk remedies.
Tip One. When I dug up the soil, carefully choose the roots of weeds - in their lives wireworms.
Tip Two. When planting potatoes in the bottom of each well I Lay onion peel - empirically, I found that wireworms can not stand the smell.
Tip three. Around the other beds with potatoes wife planted marigolds. The result - no wireworms in the tubers in autumn!
Tip four. If your rack wireworms so that it does not take the above-described means, buy in garden stores microscopic nematode worms nemabakt.
Efive tiny worms - of prey - and happy to devour the larvae of wireworms and other pests.