The presence of spider mites can often be detected only by the changed appearance of plants: their leaves begin to turn yellow, dry out and fall off. The parasite can move to your flowers from contaminated soil or get in with the wind through a window or vent. Proven folk methods will help you get rid of pests.
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.
Prevention of spider mites
There are a number of recommendations that will help prevent pests:
- The purchased plant should not be immediately placed next to others and must be quarantined. It should last 3-4 weeks. To be more sure, it will be useful to treat the leaves and stem with acaricide several times during quarantine.
- Purchased or home-made soil mixtures must be treated. For example, you can bake them in the oven, pour boiling water over them, or steam them in a water bath. It all depends on the selected soil.
- It is necessary to ventilate the room as often as possible, and during hot weather, carry out frequent watering and spraying.
- To prevent spider mites from appearing in the garden, it is recommended to regularly remove weeds, which are an excellent breeding ground for pests. It is also important to remove plant debris, for example, old dried bushes.
Soap - as the basis and component of natural pest repellents
To combat harmful insects, in particular aphids, soap-based solutions are used. In this case, soap in its pure form is used as an insecticide, in combination with other natural insecticides (tansy, garlic, wormwood, pepper, etc.) as an adhesive.
We present you simple but working options:
A simple recipe for an insecticidal solution based on aphid soap
Homemade insecticidal soap is as effective as ready-made preparations, but costs significantly less.
Dilute 50 ml of ordinary (or the cheapest) liquid soap into 4 liters of water.
You can add a little denatured alcohol (technical alcohol) to the solution, but this is not at all necessary. Although many summer residents advise doing this.
Mix soap, water and alcohol (optional), pour the mixture into a sprayer and spray the plants.
Treatment against aphids is carried out in the early morning, evening or on a cloudy but not rainy day. Treatments are repeated as necessary.
Recipe for a soap-tobacco solution against aphids and other garden pests
Boil half a kilo of tobacco leaves in 2 liters of water. Strain, add 50 grams of laundry soap and dilute the solution in a bucket of water. Spray.
Treating elderberries with soapy water against aphids
Recipe for soap-tomato-onion infusion against cabbage aphids and other pests
It takes 2 days to prepare.
Days 1 and 2. Let half a kilo of onion peels steep in 2 liters of water for 2 days. Add another 2 liters of water and liquid soap to the finished infusion.
Day 2. Brew 2 kg of tomato trimmings (leaves and shoots) with 5 liters of boiling water. Leave the infusion for 2-4 hours, then boil, strain and dilute with water in a ratio of 1 to 2.
Day 2. Mix 2 solutions and treat the plants.
Using laundry soap against spider mites
Spider mites cause most trouble to owners of greenhouses with indoor plants and in greenhouses.
At the first manifestations: take a sponge and soap it with regular laundry soap. Treat the plants with this soap solution (all green parts - stems, leaves, buds). After a day, carefully rinse the remaining soap from the plant.
If you treated plants with indoor flowers, then first cover the pot with soil with film. Try not to let the soap get into the ground.
Outdoors, simply hose off the plants.
Using laundry soap against mealyworms
Another scourge of greenhouse growers! This is the worst of all the bad things.
Dissolve 30 grams of laundry soap in a liter of water and apply the solution with a sponge to the plants and soil in pots. Rinse off the solution after 4-5 hours. After a week, inspect the plants and repeat the treatment. If it doesn’t help, then there’s only chemistry!
Using soap solutions on berry bushes
Soap-mustard infusion against gooseberry moth and sawflies
Infuse 100 g of mustard in 10 liters of water for 2 days. Strain and dilute in half, add 40 g of laundry soap (for every 10 liters of solution).
The same infusion can protect fruit trees from codling moth caterpillars and leaf-eating caterpillars (treat the trees 15–20 days after flowering), and will also help get rid of aphids, bedbugs, and thrips.
Treating currants with soapy water
In the greenhouse
How to deal with spider mites in a greenhouse? To prevent ticks from appearing, you need to start with prevention :
- regularly weed and loosen the soil in the greenhouse;
- alternate planted crops annually
- after harvesting, in the fall, carefully dig up the soil in the greenhouse;
- maintain high humidity ;
- regularly water the plants and mulch the soil around them;
- Inspect the undersides of leaves for white or yellow spots or spider webs. Affected leaves are plucked and burned.
It is better to use chemicals in a greenhouse as a last resort if folk remedies do not help. Recipes for homemade decoctions and infusions have been tested for centuries, and it is not for nothing that they are still used in pest control.
If the spider mite has settled in the greenhouse, then it’s time to carry out treatment . The fight against spider mites in a greenhouse with folk remedies is that you can simply dig up and burn the affected plants, but it is better to try regular spraying with homemade solutions. For greater effectiveness, you can alternate different means.
Laundry soap for caterpillars
Caterpillars are the scourge of crops such as cabbage. Every year, summer residents spend a huge amount of time trying to defeat them. BUT THEY ARE BACK!
Recipe for a soap solution with chamomile to combat caterpillars
A bucket of warm water, 1 kg of green chamomile and 50 grams of grated soap. Mix, strain and process.
Infusion of tar soap and ash
A glass of ash, a teaspoon of tar shampoo and 5 liters of water. Let the solution sit for a day and can be sprayed.
Garlic
For a liter of warm water you will need two finely chopped heads of garlic. The product should be infused for five days. After this, it is filtered, diluted with water in a 1:1 ratio and the plants are treated.
Most often, housewives prefer to spray them with a solution poured into a spray bottle, but you can wash the affected flowers or wipe the large leaves of some of them.
If green pets do not tolerate spraying (for example, succulents), then chopped garlic should be placed in a saucer, placed next to a flower pot and cover both containers with a bag for a couple of hours.
Sprinkling
At the initial stages of infection, mechanical control methods cope well with infection, the simplest and most harmless of which is sprinkling. Most plants respond well to this procedure in the warm season, while the ideal conditions for spider mites are dry air.
To prevent disease, periodic sprinkling can be done. The parasite, along with drops of water, will fall to the ground, where it will die within a few days. This primitive technique helps stop the spread of arachnids in dachas.
Physical wrestling
This concept means, first of all, the creation of favorable conditions for the development of plants: watering, killing weeds. For indoor plants, temperature is of great importance.
The first single affected plants must be removed immediately. Destroy torn out damaged leaves or shoots, do not just leave them on the ground - this is a breeding ground for the next generations of the pest.
It would be a good idea to irradiate indoor plants with ultraviolet light: this slows down the reproduction of the parasite.
Cabbage whites
Despite its name, the cabbage fly harms not only
, but also to all other crops of the Cruciferous family -
etc. Moreover, the fly itself is an absolutely harmless creature, but its larvae are a real thunderstorm for these vegetables.
“Tar” sawdust will help scare away cabbage and butterflies, whose caterpillars are also not averse to eating delicious leaves. However, in this case, a more effective method would be a rag soaked in pure birch tar, which is hung on stakes in the cabbage rows at a height of 40-50 cm from the ground.
Cabbage white caterpillars
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