How gardeners use tobacco to protect plants

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It is quite obvious that pests do not care what to eat, because instead of ubiquitous weeds, they stubbornly attack fruit and berry crops. Summer residents also do not give up, and if they cannot invent something new against insects, they improve old, but proven methods.

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Of all above-ground insects, none causes such indignation among gardeners as aphids.

This small parasite can cause as much damage to the crop as several large insects or rodents.

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In addition, the insect can infect the plant with various diseases.

Given the incredible fecundity of the pest, combating it is on the list of priority tasks.

Folk methods of struggle

To combat the pest, summer residents go to the meadow to collect ladybugs, which are then forcibly relocated to their plots. Solutions from laundry soap with various herbal infusions are in use. But there is another undeservedly forgotten method.

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Tobacco

For this purpose, summer residents grow tobacco in their gardens. Here's how to use a terry cloth.

  • After drying and making an infusion, you can "hit" not only the background, but also other pests that parasitize the beds. The infusion is prepared from five liters of water for two days, then the concentrate is diluted with another five liters of water, filtered and sprayed on the crops;
  • You can simply grind tobacco leaves and sprinkle them on the bed and vegetables;
  • Summer residents call a mixture of tobacco and hot pepper in 10 liters of water the most effective method.
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The composition should be infused for a day. After that, the concentrate is filtered and diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10 and sprayed on the leaves.


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