Summer is a period when you will not envy the cottage dwellers. And work all on the site must be done in a short time, so that the harvest was good, and watering is not to miss, and to not lose the plants to forget. And there are also pests of various pests. Among them, and aphids, which in the summer attacks and currant bushes. If the plant has not yet faded, then chemicals will help. However, most often this pest gives information about itself during the appearance of the first green berries. How to be and what means can be used to save the harvest of such tasty, aromatic and healthy berries?
Preventive measures
It is better, of course, to start the main processing of currant bushes in the period when the first green tips appear on them in spring. Various drugs from aphids on the currant ("Fitoverm", "Commander", "Aktelik", etc.) to find today is not a problem. In a wide range they are offered in any specialized stores. But do not think that one treatment of currants from aphids will be effective. Spraying will have to be repeated when the first buds appear. Two more treatments should be performed immediately before flowering and immediately after it. It should be noted that after the first two sprayings the green aphid on the currant will practically disappear, and the third treatment will scare off the firefly, the caterpillars of which are covered with dense cobwebs. The fourth spraying is a preventive measure against aphids and other pests on the currant.
It should be noted that the gall midge on the currant is the result of the appearance of ants on the currant. The appearance of these insects should immediately alert you, because ants use aphids as so-called cows. Helping pests to settle on a plant, they feed on a drop, a sweetish liquid that aphids release after they suck the juice from the currant leaves. If you kill the ants, then the aphids will leave the currant bushes alone. Fill all the ant trails with an ash solution or infusion of water with hot pepper.
Folk remedies
And what to spray the currant from aphids, if time is lost, and the leaves on the tops of bushes are already twisted? Summer residents have long been familiar with folk remedies that help get rid of pests. So, how to destroy the aphids on the currant and save the harvest. Below are the methods that will help solve the problem.
- Rinse the tops of bushes with a strong solution of water and tar soap (always untwist all folded leaves!).
- Spraying bushes with infusion of tobacco and ash (0.2 kg per 10 liters of water, insist 24 hours).
- Spraying with infusion of 1 kg of onion per 10 liters of water (pour onion boiling water for 6 hours, infusion strain).
- Rinse the affected aphids with infusion of hot pepper (boil 50 g of pepper in one liter of water, dilute the concentrate in a 1: 7 ratio with water).
- Spraying infused during the day with a solution of 0.5 kg of garlic in 5 liters of boiling water.
- Rinsing of affected currant branches with infusion of wormwood, soap and ash
(5 liters of water requires 0.5 kg of wormwood, 50 g of soap, a glass of ash, to insist for 5 hours, dilute with water 1: 2).
Currants of currant, which attacks aphids, it is better to handle in the afternoon three times a week. Folk methods do not give such a result as chemical preparations, but there will be no harmful substances in berries. If after processing the aphids did not disappear, do not stop fighting with it - the result will be, but later.
Also it is necessary to plant spicy plants under currant bushes. The scents of parsley, coriander, dill, celery , parsnip, sage and rosemary scare away these pests. But the neighborhood with corn beds for currants is dangerous, as the aphids love her very much.