Spring is not only a time for the awakening of nature. She signals about the beginning of work in the garden, vegetable garden or your favorite summer residence. In addition to the usual cleaning, the owners of plots are engaged in this time of year in the struggle against pests and diseases of plants and trees.
Measures to control pests in spring
It is no secret that many pests (for example, moth, apple moth, weevils and others) prefer to spend the winter in fallen leaves. Therefore, if you did not harvest leaves in the fall, then early spring is the time for it.
If there were pests in your garden that hide for winter in the ground, you will need to treat the land with insecticides. After that, the treated area is covered with agrofiber or polyethylene, as a result of which the insects will leave the shelters outside and die. After 2-3 weeks, the polyethylene dome is removed.
Fighting pests of fruit and ornamental trees
It is known that some pests (bark beetles, woodworms) of trees are hidden in the bark. Therefore, in the early spring, it is recommended that the trunks be removed from the dead cortex, treated with insecticides, and then painted with slaked lime.
In addition, a pruning method of pest control in the spring is pruning of branches of trees and shrubs, blurring of slices with garden vine .
Unfortunately, these are not all the measures that a gardener will have to take in the fight against various pests. A lot of insects destroy the future harvest even in the stage of bud budding. Very often pests and apple trees suffer from such pests, whose leaflets, buds and buds eat caterpillars of the leaf roller and apple flower. In the control of pest plants in the spring, spraying with various compounds (Bordeaux mixture, Decis, copper sulfate) is used. If, after flowering, pests remain in the trees, they are collected and burned.