Since ancient times, people have used the wonderful properties of tar for a variety of purposes. Several centuries ago, our ancestors came to the conclusion that solutions that contain it protect gardens and vegetable gardens from pests. With the development of the chemical industry, insecticides replaced natural tar preparations, but many still continue to trust a natural product that does not cause any harm to either plants or people.
For what purposes do gardeners use tar soap?
It is used to disinfect the soil by applying home-prepared solutions under the roots, and also to destroy harmful insects by spraying. But such products must be prepared and used in accordance with what kind of pests you are going to get rid of. A low concentration will not kill insects, but too high a concentration will accumulate in plants and fruits, as a result of which it will enter the human body.
How does tar soap work on aphids?
Soap is quite effective against aphids. The smell of tar is specific; even in small concentrations it repels many pests well. Often the result is noticeable after the first treatment.
Also, the protective effect of the product against aphids with tar soap is explained by the fact that after treatment it forms a film on the surface of the leaves. The pests located under it cannot leave the dangerous place and, in the absence of oxygen, begin to suffocate (asphyxia). Therefore, soap helps against aphids and other dangerous pests.
The product is produced in a convenient form of liquid concentrate.
Based on the type of effect on aphids, tar soap is classified as a contact insecticide. It penetrates the body through direct contact with the paws and integument of the body.
Advantages and disadvantages of tar soap
The tar that is part of the soap is prepared from birch bark, knots and chips. This substance is natural, safe for people and warm-blooded animals, which is why experts recommend it for pest control in gardens and vegetable gardens. The smell of tar does not kill insects, but simply drives them away from the area; only slugs are left with burns from this substance. Rodents, by the way, are also afraid of him. One of the positive aspects is that tar is not addictive, so you can use it regularly and get positive results.
Having left the land after treatment with a solution of tar soap, the pests will not return for three weeks to two months, that is, you will have to carry out the treatment infrequently, and all you need for this is an ordinary spray bottle.
The disadvantage of this product is that the tar smell repels not only pests, but also pollinators, so if you have bees, it is better not to use this method. It is also better not to subject indoor plants to this treatment during flowering. Do not use the product on greens or ripening fruits, otherwise they will smell like tar.
There is no point in combining the product with industrial fungicides and insecticides, since the tar components will lose their effectiveness. And one more important point. If you suffer from allergies, avoid tar soap, as it contains allergens.
Reviews
- Alexander, 45 years old: “For many years I have been fighting aphids in my garden using a solution of ash and tar soap. I carry out several such treatments during the season. What I like about this method of fighting aphids is its environmental safety. Spraying can be done at any time as soon as pest damage has been noticed. In addition, the soap solution adheres well to the leaves, so even after rain there is no need to re-treat.”
- Anna, 47 years old: “I have a whole flower garden of roses at my dacha. But lately I started noticing aphids on them. I didn’t dare to use chemicals, as they could ruin my beauty. I decided to use a simple soap solution made from tar soap. I no longer used any auxiliary components. I carry out the treatment in the evening, when it is quiet and windless outside. I use a regular broom for this. After the first treatment, the number of insects is reduced, and my roses come to life again. And in order to completely overcome the pest, I carry out 3 such treatments with an interval of 7 days.”
Tar soap is a unique product that is in great demand not only in cosmetology, but is also a good helper in the garden to combat various pests. Thanks to its rich aroma, which aphids cannot stand, insects begin to leave the garden and the plants come to life. But after some time, the pests may return again, so it is necessary to carry out such activities from time to time.
This link will tell you how to treat plums against aphids.
Ways to use tar soap
This natural product can be used in different ways. Everything here should depend on the goals. To scare away hares, cats, moles, flies and insects that are harmless to plants, hang tin cans with a cloth soaked in a solution of tar soap around the property. As the material dries, it must be changed. An alternative to this method is stakes with rags soaked in tar solution wrapped on top. The distance between pegs must be at least two meters. The smell of tar is not washed away by rain, and even if you don’t feel it yourself, pests will.
Hares often damage the bark of trees in vegetable gardens. To prevent this from happening, paint the trunks with a lime solution with the addition of tar soap. As a result, the bark will no longer attract not only rodents, but also insects. In ten liters of water, dilute a kilogram of whitewash and a grated bar of soap, which, by the way, can be replaced with 50 milliliters of natural tar. If there is an infestation on the land, mulch it. Dilute ten milliliters of this product in ten liters of water and soak the sawdust in it.
For universal spraying, grate 100 grams of tar soap on a fine grater and mix with 300 grams of wood ash. Add the mixture to a bucket of hot water and leave to steep for one hour. After this time, stir the mixture and spray the plants with it from a spray bottle.
The solution is also suitable for processing planting material of root crops. But in this case, it is better to replace soap with natural tar. Ten liters of water will require 15 milliliters of this product. Immerse the seedlings in the emulsion for about five minutes, and then proceed to planting.
To water the holes, you can use a disinfecting suspension. How to cook it? Dissolve 50 grams of tar soap in five liters of water. Before planting potatoes, pour one glass of this product into the hole. It is recommended to irrigate root crops, including onions, immediately after sowing and this procedure should be repeated after 15 days. In this case, one square meter of bed will require a liter of solution.
How and against which garden pests tar is used
As a substance that acts primarily due to its pungent odor, tar in the garden is more effective against those pests that have a keen sense of smell, as well as underground inhabitants (where the smell does not erode and disappear longer) - mole crickets, small mice, moles . Treatment against them, in connection with the situation described above, is usually sufficient to carry out once a season; the repellent effect of tar in the soil lasts more than a month.
As a repellent, tar in the garden can also be successfully used against flying insects (Colorado beetle, butterflies, moths, flies, sawflies, etc.) and ground rodents - however, it has a weaker effect on them and takes less time, about 20 -30 days, so treatments will have to be repeated.
Tar has the weakest effect (several days) on ants and most adult beetles (bronze beetles, click beetles, weevils). Fighting these pests with tar alone will not be entirely successful; you will have to combine it with other drugs.
Tar in mixtures is incompatible with almost all synthetic pesticides and biological products - it is even recommended to store them in different rooms. But the product combines well with minerals and natural extracts. Their combined use even enhances their mutual effect.
So, what pests and diseases does tar help against in the garden? Here are 21 ways to use this popular product.
Birch tar from the Colorado potato beetle
Potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes and peppers will thank you if you spray them with a tar solution against the Colorado potato beetle.
The solution is prepared as follows: 10 ml (2 tsp) of tar and 50 g of laundry soap are dissolved in 10 liters of warm water. You can spray the plants with it (before the start of flowering, during the appearance of buds and during the period of intense flowering) or generously moisten the bushes, as well as the soil between the rows until a wet film forms on the leaves.
Birch tar from the mole cricket
Tar will help save your plants from mole crickets in several ways.
The first is the treatment of seed and planting materials - for example, lubricating the tubers with an undiluted preparation. The second method is to spray the already risen plants with the above-described tar-soap solution (soap here acts as an adhesive).
Birch tar from moles (hamsters, marmots)
Moles, hamsters, marmots and other burrowing mammals can also be expelled from the site in different ways. For example, by plugging all discovered entrances to their burrows with pieces of cloth, richly soaked in undiluted tar, and covering them with earth. For such impregnation, you can also use a tar-oil mixture (3 parts tar to 1 part vegetable oil). It is better to start all these activities in early spring; in the summer it may be too late.
Another way is to drive small (about 20x4 cm) wooden pegs throughout the area at a distance of 3-4 m from each other, generously greased with tar at the bottom. If necessary, they can be dug up from time to time and the “fragrant” treatment renewed.
Birch tar from hares (mice, voles)
To protect trees and shrubs from rodents such as mice and hares, autumn mulching of the tree trunks of plants with sawdust soaked in tar solution (1 tablespoon of tar per 10 liters of water), and autumn whitewashing of the bottom of trunks and lower branches with a special solution (10 liters of fresh manure, 1 kg of ready-made whitewash and 3 tablespoons of tar, dilute with water to the consistency of thick kefir).
Birch tar from onion fly
To get rid of the attention of the onion fly, it is recommended to soak the planting material of onions and garlic literally half an hour before sowing in a tar solution (1 tsp of tar per 1 liter of water).
After germination of the seedlings, it is also worth watering the rows of these plants with a solution prepared from 10 liters of water, 30 g of soap and 1 tbsp. tar, repeating the procedure again after 10-15 days.
Mulching the beds with sawdust soaked in a tar solution also helps (see preparation diagram above).
Birch tar from cabbage fly
To combat cabbage fly on cruciferous crops (radish, cabbage, turnips, horseradish, etc.), a tar solution is used (1 tablespoon of tar per 10 liters of water), which is poured onto beds mulched with sawdust. The procedure is carried out in early spring and the mulch layer is renewed in early August.
Birch tar from sea buckthorn fly
A fly that damages sea buckthorn plantings can also be repelled by the smell of birch tar. To do this, small containers with it are hung inside the bush or pegs wrapped in rags soaked in tar are driven in nearby.
Birch tar from carrot fly and psyllid
Tar also helps carrots - to escape from carrot flies and psyllids, which also do not like its smell.
You already know the recipe - 10 liters of warm water + 1 tbsp. birch tar. Carrot beds are watered with this solution on pre-moistened soil twice a season (in July and August). If the insect infestation is large, you can water the beds a couple more times, and also spray them - then 20-30 g of soap shavings should be added to the above solution as an adhesive.
Birch tar from sprout fly
Treatment with the solution described above also helps against germ flies on all pumpkin crops (cucumbers, zucchini, pumpkin, squash). Vegetable seedlings are sprayed with a solution against this pest.
Birch tar from sawfly
There are several types of sawfly (gooseberry, cherry, etc.) that damage a wide variety of plants: white and red currants, gooseberries, cherries, pears, plums, apple trees. However, all these pests cannot tolerate the smell of tar, so they can be successfully controlled using this product.
The bushes are sprayed 3-4 times per season with the following mixture: dissolve 100 g of grated laundry soap, half a glass of ash and 2 tbsp in 1 liter of boiling water. tar, dilute the mixture with 5 liters of warm water.
The trees will also have to be sprayed several times a season (at the beginning of the leaves blooming, and then, if necessary, at weekly intervals) with a solution already familiar to you: 10 liters of water, 1 tbsp. birch tar, 30 g of soap.
Birch tar from wireworm
Potatoes, carrots, beets, radishes and other root vegetables need to be protected from wireworms, including this can be done with the help of tar.
In advance, you can etch the seed for 40-50 minutes in a tar solution (1 tablespoon of tar per 10 liters of water) and moisten the wells with the same solution before planting. Plants grown from seeds are simply watered with this solution several times a season at intervals of 2-3 weeks.
Birch tar from aphids
Copious spraying of plants with a tar solution a couple of times a season at intervals of about a month helps against aphids.
The solution is prepared as follows: 50 g of tar soap is crushed, dissolved in 1 liter of boiling water and stirred. After complete dissolution, add 1 tsp. tar and another 20 liters of water.
Birch tar for ants
If we already mentioned aphids, let us immediately remember their almost constant companions - ants, against which tar also helps to fight.
Trees on which ants “graze” aphids are generously smeared with undiluted tar along the trunk or wrapped in rags soaked with it - constructing a kind of hunting belt. If the ants have settled right in your garden, you can pour a few milliliters of pharmaceutical tar on the top of the anthill - the insects definitely won’t like it, and they will most likely leave the inhospitable area.
Birch tar for spider mites
If you notice signs of spider mite activity on your plants, treat these places with a soap-tar solution that is already familiar to you (10 liters of warm water + 10 ml (2 tsp) tar + 50 g of laundry soap), paying special attention to the underside of the leaves .
Birch tar from cabbage whiteweed
The cabbage butterfly (cabbage white butterfly), familiar to all gardeners, can easily be scared away from plantings by its tarry smell. To do this, place pegs in the garden, wrapped at the ends with rags soaked in undiluted birch tar. Additionally, sawdust soaked in a water-tar solution can be laid out on the beds - this will also help against other insect pests.
Birch tar from gooseberry moth
The gooseberry moth, which harms gooseberry and currant thickets, actively damages the ovaries of these plants. To combat it, before flowering, berry bushes should be sprayed with a tar solution (1 tablespoon of tar and 20 g of soap shavings per 10 liters of water), and then simply hang containers with tar on the branches inside the bush.
Birch tar from codling moth
Garden plantings very often suffer from the “work” of the codling moth. Apple, cherry, plum - all its types are equally dangerous and can destroy up to half the crop. The caterpillars of this insect spend the winter period under the bark of a tree, and during the flowering period, having already turned into butterflies, they begin laying eggs in the lower part of the leaves. The moths that hatch from them feed on the fruits.
Therefore, while the butterflies have not yet flown out (at the beginning of flowering) and immediately after flowering, the trees and the soil under them can be sprayed with the already familiar odorous tar solution with water and soap. Small containers with tar solution (1 tsp of tar per 5 liters of water), suspended in the crown of trees shortly before they begin to bloom, will also be useful.
Birch tar from hawthorn
Hawthorn larvae work on crops of the Rosaceae family (apple, cherry, pear, plum, apricot, etc.) similar to the codling moth, actively eating buds, young leaves and buds, only the insect overwinters in nests located on the leaves, which are pre-wrapped with cobwebs . These nests need to be removed first. Then the soil under the tree and the plant itself are treated with a tar solution (traditionally, 1 tablespoon of tar and 30 g of planed soap are taken per 10 liters of water). The first treatment is carried out in the “green cone” phase, the second – shortly before flowering (April), and the subsequent ones immediately after flowering with an interval of two weeks (depending on the presence of caterpillars).
Birch tar from raspberry-strawberry weevil
Raspberry, blackberry and rose hip bushes are often damaged by the raspberry-strawberry weevil: dried ovaries are clear proof of this. Therefore, before the buds appear, the berry bushes should be generously sprayed with a water-tar solution with the addition of soap (see recipe above). After a week, the procedure can be repeated.
Birch tar from cherry weevil
The cherry weevil feeds not only on leaves, but also damages young shoots of stone fruit trees, buds, ovaries and inflorescences, and after the fruits ripen, it gets to them. To combat this pest, also dissolve the familiar mixture of tar and soap in a bucket of water and thoroughly moisten the trees from the sprayer with this fragrant solution. Carry out the procedure in early spring before the buds open, then repeat when the buds open and shortly before flowering.
Birch tar against scab and other bacterial and viral diseases
Tar can also save your plants from many bacterial and viral infections that can leave you completely without a harvest. To prevent their development, fruit trees and shrubs are generously treated with the above-described tar-water solution with the addition of soap (only more tar should be taken, 1.5-2 tbsp.) or lubricated with a mixture of undiluted tar and ash (2:1) the period of appearance of young leaves.
Fighting aphids
If there are aphids on your plot of land, then you can defeat them by preparing a “medicine” from tomato tops with the addition of tar and laundry soap. Place four kilograms of tops in a bucket, fill it with ten liters of water, add 50 grams of grated laundry soap and let it brew for five hours, and then simmer the mixture for half an hour over low heat and add 50 grams of grated tar soap into the liquid. Wait for the broth to boil and remove the bucket from the heat. When the mixture has cooled, spray the plants with it.
If aphids have infected fruit trees, then you can achieve maximum effect using the following solution. Dilute 60 grams of tar soap in ten liters of water. No need to spray. Pour the product into small wide-necked bottles and hang them on tree branches. After some time, not a trace of the aphids will remain. To avoid this problem again, periodically refresh the contents of the bottles. And if in late autumn you soak sawdust with such a solution and scatter it in the tree trunk area, you will drive ants away from the area.
A solution of tar soap and ash will help you get rid of aphids on fruit bushes. Dissolve half a kilogram of ash in a bucket of boiling water, add 50 grams of crushed garlic, and when the liquid has cooled, add 50 grams of crushed tar soap into it. Treat the tops of berry bushes with this product. This procedure can be performed only after they have finished flowering.
Action against aphids and ants
Tar soap has become widespread in cosmetology. Girls actively use this product to prepare face and hair masks. But tar soap is also an indispensable assistant in the garden. It consists of ordinary soap with the addition of birch tar. It is due to the last component that it is possible to remove aphids and ants from the area.
You can try using salt. which everyone has in their home, but how to pour salt solution on onions for the best result is indicated here. As you know, ants are the helpers of aphids. They are the ones who can carry aphids from one place to another. So, when starting to fight against parasites, you need to take care of eliminating all existing anthills. But how to use laundry soap against aphids on an apple tree, and what you should pay attention to, is indicated in this article.
The peculiarity of tar soap is its unpleasant and pungent odor. This is precisely what repels insects that cannot stand such a “pleasant” aroma and leave the area.
Tar soap against the Colorado potato beetle
The Colorado potato beetle is considered one of the most common pests on land. It's easy to get rid of it. Dissolve a bar of tar soap in eight liters of warm water and spray the affected plants with this solution from a spray bottle. To achieve maximum effect, perform treatment during the period of greatest solar activity. If it rains more often, repeat the procedure as often as possible. This method is suitable not only for killing beetles, but also for preventing them.
Recommendations for using natural aphid repellents
There are a lot of effective methods of combating aphids. The main rule for using any means, both chemical and natural, is to use them wisely. There are several nuances to using natural pest repellents:
- Few traditional methods give instant results. You will have to carry out from three to ten procedures with a frequency of 1-2 times a week. Recipes must be alternated.
- The treatment is carried out only in the evening and special attention is paid to the lower surface of the leaf plates. At the very beginning of the growing season, it is better to use chemicals, and at a later date, before and after harvesting, use softer and harmless natural products.
- Folk remedies are appropriate only on small personal plots. They are not used in agricultural production conditions.
If after using your own preparations the insects do not disappear or the situation worsens, then it is better not to delay and use insecticides. On store shelves you can find biological products that have a milder effect and do not harm fruit and vegetable crops, but cause great damage to aphids and other harmful insects.
If after one treatment the aphids have not disappeared from the leaves, the procedure should be repeated at least one more time.
When using traditional methods, you can get rid of not only pests, but also various fungi and rot. They have an antiseptic effect and at the same time serve as additional nutrition. But you need to use such drugs with caution, wear a mask and gloves, and wash your hands and equipment thoroughly after handling. To prevent aphids from returning, it is necessary to simultaneously treat all adjacent areas.
Author of the article: Kamenkov Igor Dmitrievich
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Tar soap for ants
Ants are hard workers, for which they are “respected,” but they contribute to the spread of aphids throughout the land and often damage the crop, so you also need to fight them, and tar soap will help you with this. For these purposes, a solution is prepared from it and poured into anthills or sprayed on damaged plants.
Mix the following ingredients: 25 grams of baking soda, the same amount of crushed soap, ten grams of garlic, two liters of water. Use as directed after all ingredients are completely dissolved.
What kind of soap is there anyway?
For the garden we use three types of soap. Most often, ordinary household items. However, there are other options - tar and green.
- Laundry soap, or Marseilles soap , is cheap and cheerful: if it gets on insects, it leads to their death. It has antibacterial and antifungal properties, contains fatty acids (no more than 76%) and free alkalis (pH 11-12).
- Tar soap - soap with birch tar (up to 10%). This is a milder product with less alkali and a higher fatty acid content. The main application is cosmetology, as an antiseptic, regenerating and medicinal product.
- Green or potassium soap is sold in specialized stores for treating plants. It consists of water, natural fats, vegetable oils and potassium salts of fatty acids (hence the second name of soap - potassium). Sold in the form of a gel or spray. Can be used immediately to treat plants. The spray does not require preparation or dilution. The gel is diluted in water.
BUT, not all advice from the Internet on using soap in the garden can be used. So, let’s look at the use of laundry soap, as the most popular and affordable one, in a summer cottage. Where it should be used and where not.
Pest Prevention
To prevent the spread of aphids and other insects in the garden, prepare an alcohol solution. Dilute 40 grams of grated tar soap in one liter of water, add 40 milliliters of pure alcohol and spray the plants. The mixture of alcohol and tar smells acts as a deterrent, but the disadvantage of the product is its limited effect, so you will have to repeat the procedure.
Here is another recipe for an effective universal remedy. Grind 200 grams of dry tobacco leaves into powder, place them in a bucket along with two chopped hot peppers, add ten liters of water and leave for 24 hours. The next day, add 40 grams of wood ash and tar soap.
How to prepare tar yourself and where to buy it
Since birch tar is gaining increasing popularity in various fields, from gardening and gardening to medicine and cosmetology, you can buy it at several points at once - in a regular pharmacy, in specialized garden stores, in online stores.
If you need large volumes of this product, and you are not afraid to work with your hands, you can prepare birch tar yourself.
There are two types of tar - birch and birch bark. The first is obtained by dry distillation (pyrolysis) of birch chips, twigs and bark, the second is obtained only from birch bark of young birch bark. The main difference lies in the concentration of aromatic substances in the resulting substance. If birch bark tar has a fairly light odor and is used mainly for the production of medical and cosmetic preparations, then birch tar, with a pungent spirit, is a dark oily liquid and is perfect for gardeners. It is both excellent protection against various fungal diseases, an excellent antimicrobial agent, and an excellent antiseptic. This absolutely natural remedy perfectly protects against many pests of cultivated plants.
We offer you a recipe for obtaining birch tar:
From 10 kg of birch bark you can distill approximately 3 kg of tar.
Pharmacy and store-bought tar will already be purified and, therefore, more effective than homemade. This does not apply to cosmetic preparations based on tar - for example, tar soap - there is so little tar that they will be almost useless as a repellent in the garden.
Who does tar scare away?
As a repellent, tar in the garden and garden is most effective against objects of elimination that have a keen sense of smell and wholly or partially lead an underground lifestyle, because In the soil, the active ingredients of tar remain longer. These factors mutually reinforce each other. Based on this, the repellent effect of tar on different groups of pests is divided into 3 categories:
- Severe – lasts more than 30 days. As a rule, one treatment per season is enough for the objects of elimination to remove themselves from the site in all directions;
- Medium – lasts up to 30 days, but is stable;
- Mild – lasts less than 30 days. In cold weather it weakens or stops.
Tar drives away mole crickets, moles, voles and gypsy moths most strongly, see figure:
The latter does not live underground, but its males have an ultra-fine sense of smell: they find females by smell from kilometers away. The tar stench disrupts the search for mating partners, and the population in the surrounding area dies out. But, if you also have large, beautiful and harmless pinnate butterflies (for example, large night peacock eye - pear peacock eye, Artemis peacock eye, ocellated toothed one), then they too will disappear. You can also not expect visits from specialized pollinators such as hawkmoth butterflies after treating the area with tar. You can get rid of mole crickets with tar at once for the entire season, see for example. video:
Video: tar against mole crickets and mice
Medium tar drives away Colorado potato beetles, white butterflies (cabbage moths), codling moths, moths, phytophagous flies (onion flies, cruciferous flies), larvae of click beetles (wireworms), sawflies, other rodents, hares and slugs, see figure:
The use of tar against these pests is completely justified, because allows, if not to expel them completely, but to greatly reduce the dose of pesticides and the costs of them. How to use tar to make it easier to fight the Colorado potato beetle, see the story:
Video: processing potatoes with tar
Finally, tar weakly repels ants, elephant beetles and weevils, adult click beetles and bronze beetles, see next. rice. Fighting these pests with tar alone is unlikely to be successful. Ants - foragers and herders of aphids - may die from tar, but their loss for the anthill as a “superorganism” is, in general, no more sensitive than cutting hair or nails for us. It is possible to expel ants from a site with tar only if the anthill is outside its boundaries and measures are taken to combat aphids. Then the “superorganism” will redirect the foragers to another place, and force the shepherds to transfer the aphids there.
How to use
Based on tar soap, you can obtain a sufficient number of solutions that quickly and effectively deal with aphids.
Tomato tops and soap
To remove aphids from the area, you need to prepare a solution using foliage or tops of tomatoes. To do this, take 4 kg of raw materials, put them in a bucket and add 10 liters of water. You can use a solution of laundry soap against aphids.
Wait 4-6 hours and then place on the stove. Simmer there for 30 minutes, and then add 50 g of tar soap. Wait until the broth boils and turn it off.
Universal composition
Based on tar soap, you can obtain a universal soap insecticide. To do this, you need to take components such as water, tar soap and kerosene - 12:4:2. After mixing all the ingredients, you can get an effective solution that quickly deals with aphids, mites, beetles and butterflies.
If you need to treat indoor plants, use soap and water in a ratio of 1:15. Thus, a foaming solution is obtained for treating home bushes.
Alcohol composition
Thanks to it, you can not only remove existing pests, but also scare away new ones. You need to take 1 liter of water, place 40 g of soap, previously crushed on a grater.
Add 40 ml of alcohol undiluted. The secret of this solution is that it has a strong aroma; after applying it to the plant, alcohol will repel parasites. The only drawback of this solution is its fragility. So you will need to repeat the procedure from time to time. But how to use ammonia against ants in the garden, and how to do all the work yourself, is described here.
Product for fruit trees
There is one little secret for fighting aphids on trees. It is necessary to prepare a soap solution using 60 g of soap and 10 liters of water. A complete product is poured into bottles and placed in the crowns of trees. You may also be interested in information about how the crown of a Melba apple tree is formed.
Mice and hares
The long-lasting aroma of birch tar is successfully used to protect fruit trees from damage by rodents in winter. If the danger comes only from voles, then the tree trunks of young trees with delicate bark can simply be mulched with sawdust soaked in tar solution (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water).
And if hares are also active in your garden, then a more reliable remedy will be an odorous whitewash mixture, which is prepared from 8 liters of water, 1 kg of chalk, 1 kg of manure and 3 tbsp. spoons of birch tar. The solution must be brought to the consistency of sour cream and the trunks and lower skeletal branches should be whitened with it.
To protect against rodents, add birch tar to the whitewash solution
Birch tar has an oily consistency and does not dissolve well in cold water. Therefore, when preparing solutions for spraying or root watering, first dissolve it in a small amount of hot water, and then pour the resulting “mash” into a container with cold water. The effect of such a fragrant product will not be long in coming, and you will soon be able to harvest a generous harvest of environmentally friendly vegetables and fruits, protecting it from the encroachments of countless garden pests.
