Aphid treatment with green soap

Green soap from aphids - a natural insecticide based on potassium salts of fatty acids with the addition of vegetable oils, natural fats. It is used for indoor plants, horticultural crops from pests, against diseases. The drug is produced by several manufacturers, you can buy in a flower, hardware store.

Drug action

Green soap against aphids has a contact effect. It envelops the body of the insect with a film, blocks oxygen. The insect dies in a few minutes.

The action lasts several days, for the complete destruction of pests requires repeated spraying within a week.

On a note!

Green soap is not dangerous to humans when used properly, not phytotoxic. Eat garden, garden crops is allowed 5 days after spraying.

Application

Processing with green soap from aphids is carried out with a solution that is prepared immediately before spraying. Use a garden atomizer, a spray bottle, a watering can with a wide nozzle.

The classic solution for fighting aphids:

• 200 g of concentrated green soap is dissolved in 1 l of warm water;
• add another 9 l of liquid.

A thorough spraying of the plants is carried out, paying particular attention to the lower part of the leaves, to the stems.

Effective folk recipes with soap base:

• Mix 1 tbsp. tablespoons of red, black pepper, cinnamon, mustardadd 100 g of the active drug.
• Dilute in 10 l 200 g of wood ash, mix thoroughly, add soap.
• Grind the green part tobacco, 200 g of dry tobacco powder, leave to infuse under a closed lid for a day. Strain, introduce 200 g of soap.
• Finely chop the tops of tomato, potatoes, tansy or wormwood. Pour 10 liters of water. Insist 3 days. Put on the stove, boil for 1 hour. Strain, add green soap.
• Brew 200 g of onion husks, leave for 24 hours, add 100 g of green soap.

The drug is allowed to combine with insecticides. 100 g of soap are added to the finished solution. It is necessary to carry out spraying in early spring before blooming or after harvesting.

On a note!

You can achieve high results if you lather stems, leaves with liquid green soap. Repeat the treatment after 3 days.

When working with the drug should use rubber gloves.

Efficiency

The drug helps against aphids if the product gets onto the insect during processing. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the back of the leaves, the stems. Plant tissues do not absorb a natural insecticide. It acts exclusively by contact.

It is advisable to use the tool with a slight damage to aphid plants in the garden, in the garden. Shows high processing efficiency indoor flowers. It is used to consolidate the result after spraying crops with insecticides.

Reviews on the use of green soap are mixed.

Reviews

Green soap is a biological product from aphids. You do not have to wait for an instant result. Efficiency is low, since only those insects that hit the soap solution die. If it is used as part of folk recipes, the effectiveness increases.Especially when combined with wood ashtobacco. In the garden, you need to process the beds every 3 days, which is very annoying.

Albina, Moscow

For indoor flowers, the tool is suitable. At aphids limited scope of activity, so it can be easily dealt with. It is necessary to process plants every 3 days, simply spraying from a bottle with a spray. Safe tool for humans, pets. It is possible to carry out spraying indoors. Acts as an analogue tar soap and laundry.

Svetlana, St. Petersburg

I use the product in the garden for spraying fruit trees from aphids and various diseases. The composition is periodically changed. Add ash, tobacco garliconion peel vinegar, ammonia. In the beginning of spring I breed Aktaru remedyI add green soap. It turns out a reliable remedy for aphids, diseases and other pests.

Sergey, Rostov-on-Don