Kalina is not only delicious berries, but also an excellent decoration of your site. However, this plant often suffers from diseases and pests. To protect decorative shrubs in your garden, find out what are the diseases of the Kalina and how to fight them correctly.
What causes vesicles?
The most common diseases of green leaves and red berries are the following:
- Powdery mildew - very often appears on the leaves of the viburnum. The fight against this disease is conducted with the help of colloidal or powdered sulfur. The first "medicine" is used, dissolving in water and spraying bushes, and the second - by the method of their pollinating. To defeat the disease will help three-fold treatment of the plant. Good in the fight against powdery mildew and "Fitosporin".
- In a similar way, they struggle with different types of spotting. Against these diseases will be effective treatment of 1% solution of Bordeaux liquid (1 kg of copper sulfate + 50 liters of water + 1 kg of quicklime).
- Against bacterial blotch use drugs "Abiga-Peak", "Hom".
- They can also be used against cytosporosis - the drying of shoots of the viburnum.
- Sometimes it happens that the bush of the Kalina is struck by a mosaic - a dangerous fungal disease. The leaves of the viburnum are covered with spots and then twisted, and the berries deteriorate. From mosaic there is no effective treatment, except for the destruction of infected plants. Therefore, due attention should be paid to prevention, in particular, spraying garlic, tobacco and onion infusions.
As the prevention of red and decorative red deer, so-called insecticidal plants can be used: horse sorrel, dandelion, bitter wormwood. Their infusions regularly sprinkle the bush of the Kalina throughout the season.
In addition to the diseases listed above, beware of the vermin of the guelder-rose moth: the moths, the comma shield, the green lobed moth, the Kalinidae and aphid.
Good care for the Kalina is a guarantee that diseases will bypass your plants.