Mustard and Vinegar versus Colorado potato beetle: proportions and reviews

What techniques do gardeners not use to get rid of an uninvited guest from America: from store-bought potent insecticides to folk ways to destroy the pest. There have been a decent amount of recipes during the expansion of the American parasite to the European continent and it is not easy to choose an effective method. In some recipes for getting rid of the pest, dry mustard and table vinegar are indicated as effective substances for expelling parasites from the garden. Mustard and vinegar against the Colorado potato beetle are used as ingredients in solution.

How to exterminate a beetle with mustard powder

Culinary seasoning powder is not poison. If you process potatoes with mustard powder, Colorado beetle will not die. Spice only repels the insect, and its larvae do not like the bitter taste. The use of dry mustard from a Colorado potato beetle on potatoes does not present any difficulty: dry powder is sprinkled on the ground between the rows and carefully dust the leaves on the plants.

To prepare the infusion, it will take several days. Several ways to make an infusion at home:

1. A 100-gram package of seasoning is stirred in a couple of liters of cold water and left to infuse for several days. After infusion, filter and top up to a full 10-liter bucket.
2. The same 100-gram package of powder is poured with 2 liters of boiling water. This reduces the preparation of infusion to 1 day. Further steps to prepare the composition are similar to the first recipe.
3. If you use two packs per bucket of water at once, you can get a concentrated suspension, which is not used for spraying, but watered under the root of potato bushes.

On a note!

If 60 g of alkaline soap are dissolved in the composition prepared according to the first two recipes, the effectiveness of the infusion will increase significantly. The suspension allows you to get rid not only of the Colorado pest, but also of wireworms and slugs that live in the ground.

Plus these folk remedies in their absolute harmlessness to humans, birds and the environment.

More complex compounds

Folk remedy mustard and vinegar from the Colorado potato beetle exists in two versions. How many grams of powder is needed for the solution. depends on the method of preparation:

1. 100 g of powder and 100 ml of 9% table vinegar are taken in a 10-liter bucket of water. All mix thoroughly and add another bucket of water.
2. In a 10-liter bucket, 200 g of powder is stirred and left to infuse in a warm place for 12 hours. When the infusion is ready, 150-200 g of alcohol vinegar is added to it.

On a note!

You can find a recipe for mustard and vinegar from the Colorado potato beetle, which requires 1 kg of mustard powder, 100 ml of table vinegar and a bucket of water. But gardeners express legitimate doubts that such a mixture will not burn potato bushes.

Another recipe suggests using equal proportions of mustard and vinegar against the Colorado potato beetle. In this case, 100 g of each of the ingredients is taken per 10 l of water.

How to apply

For Colorado potato beetle mustard and vinegar there are certain rules:

• if spraying potatoes with mustard is required, the prepared infusion must first be filtered, so as not to clog the spray nozzle;
• processing should be carried out in the evening, since under the influence of sunlight the composition quickly loses its properties;
• for spraying, choose a calm evening, so that the composition lies better on the leaves;
• not only the upper, but also the lower side is treated in the leaves to poison the larvae with mustard and vinegar;
• if you did not guess with the weather and it started to rain, you will have to repeat the treatment.

Important! The solution is suitable for use within 3 hours after preparation. Then the vinegar component evaporates from it.

Acetic acid softens the chitinous shell of beetles and larvae, so it is better to poison the Colorado potato beetle with mustard and vinegar. To obtain greater efficiency, this composition is added:

• wormwood infusion;
• infusion of garlic;
• infusion of onion husks;
• turpentine;
• laundry soap.

The ingredients of folk remedies with mustard on potatoes can vary, as well as the percentage of components. Gardeners are constantly experimenting in an attempt to find the most effective composition.

Reviews

I tried to process potatoes with mustard and vinegar. The wreckers "said thanks and invited me to come in with a treat." No bitterness and smell prevent them.

Nikolay, Rostov-on-Don

We manage to get rid of the Colorado potato beetle with the help of mustard and vinegar, but we use this tool in combination and use it in repeated processing. The first time we sprinkle potatoes with an infusion of walnuts before the appearance of colorado. And here is the second time we use the composition “of homemade means of destruction”, that is, of these homemade seasonings. But the second time you need to spray potatoes strictly during flowering. For several years now we don’t know grief.

Svetlana, Rain

Living plants

To protect nightshade crops, many gardeners plant mustard seeds in the aisles. A grown bush cannot poison pests, but its essential oils provide etching from beds not only of all garden pests, but also of their enemies at the same time. But earthworms, this plant provides a favorable environment for life.

A mustard bush develops rapidly, blooms profusely. If there are not enough seeds for sowing in the right places, you can cut off the flowers from the mustard bush and spread them on unprotected potato beds.