Wireworms retreats, and if you dig a little handle. Note cottagers "From leaky"
I am sure that wireworms - one of the worst pests in the garden. Not inferior to him, except that his tovarka - cricket. Throughout his country life my husband and I are struggling with this sweet couple, and only now began to see the results of success: full of holes and eared tubers and root vegetables with our hundred less.
But today we are not talking about adorable, Medvedkov. I will write 4 simple rules for processing the autumn garden, which helps to significantly reduce the harm caused by the ever-present wireworms. And a bonus a spring board.
Now many say that autumn digging the garden with the total choice of weed - a waste of time and effort. Maybe. But not if the earth took a fancy to wireworms (read - the click-beetle).
Firstly, it is necessary to remove from the earth all plant debris. Because insidious pest of summer producing wireworms in catastrophic numbers, hide from the cold in the ground just underneath.
Second, be sure to select all the weeds, especially couch grass. It is a popular plant beetle wireworms.
It is said that wireworm can fight planting green manure crops: mustard and fatsielii. Me and my friend fellow sufferers, this method, as they say, did not go
Third, if you have acidic soil, try to work on it. Make the ground dolomite flour or plain ash. This treatment will make a neutral ground that the click-beetle does not like. Your garden will be much less attractive to the pest, and he will flee to postpone the evil offspring to a neighbor.
And finally digging up the garden, unscrew the layers of the earth and crush with a shovel. Most of the bugs lurking in the winter, will be on the surface. And there are garden birds, starving in the fall, will do the job.
The next phase will begin in the spring protection. That's what we did:
In each well of a potato planting can sleep a little preparation "Bazudin". But we have gone a bit the other way.
The secret is that wireworms hates ammonia. Therefore, before planting potatoes we scatter plot of ammonium nitrate. It is also a good nitrogen fertilizer that is useful for potatoes in the first stage of growth.
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