How to deal with a bear with folk remedies?

Medvedka is one of the worst enemies of gardening plantations, capable of depriving the owner of a personal plot of any hope for a harvest. Cleverly making moves underground, this pest destroys everything that it encounters in its path - plant roots, bulbs, tubers of vegetable and flower crops. To combat the bear, gardeners usually use popular folk remedies that do not violate the soil microflora and do not harm plants. What folk remedies are used to destroy this pest? What methods can be used to drive him out of the site?

In order for the fight against the bear (another common name for the pest is cabbage) to be effective, it is necessary to take into account the habits of the insect, its biological characteristics, and lifestyle. So, experienced gardeners are well aware of the pest's ability to make underground passages at a decent depth. For example, the tunnels that the bear makes in winter can be located at a depth of 1-1.2 meters. Moreover, the nests in which the larvae of the pest overwinter are usually located at a depth of 30-50 centimeters. In the spring, as the soil warms up, the cabbage girls begin to equip the passages closer and closer to the surface of the earth, which greatly simplifies and facilitates their capture.

Another specific feature of this pest is its ability to reproduce at an alarming rate. One clutch of cabbage can contain up to 350-450 eggs, of which new individuals appear rather quickly.

Cabbage dwellers spend a significant part of their lives underground. From time to time they get out on its surface in the dark. Many gardeners, who know about this feature of the pest, arrange "night rounds" on it, looking for and manually destroying the discovered individuals. Despite the laboriousness of this method, it is very effective in the fight against the pest.

Experienced gardeners are unanimous in the opinion that the fight against the bear should be comprehensive and continuous. This means that in order to achieve the desired result, the owner of the personal plot should use the maximum possible number of folk remedies to catch and destroy the pest, its larvae and nests. Moreover, measures to exterminate the cabbage can be taken and implemented not from time to time, but regularly - until the slightest trace remains on the site indicating its presence.

To combat the bear, gardeners use a wide range of various folk remedies that make it possible to permanently remove the pest from the garden. To achieve the desired result more quickly, they are used in a complex, often combined with traditional methods of pest destruction (insecticidal preparations).

Concentrated soap solution is one of the simplest and most affordable remedies that is often used to combat cabbage. For its preparation, use shavings of laundry soap, which is dissolved in a bucket of warm water. The resulting solution is poured into the pest's hole and wait for it to get out.Further, the insect will only have to be caught and destroyed.

You can scare off a voracious pest from just planted seedlings with the help of a concentrated solution made from scented toilet soap. To prepare such a product, a whole bar of soap is dissolved in warm water (5 liters), after which the plants are treated with the resulting solution and the ground under them is sprayed. It is not recommended to use washing powder instead of soap. It often contains aggressive components (fragrances, bleaching and anticorrosive substances, chlorine, dyes), which can negatively affect the soil microflora.

Gardeners use this household waste in various variations to combat cabbage. Some use crushed shells to prepare bait, others to create barrier strips. In the first case, the crushed shell is mixed with unrefined vegetable oil., after which the resulting mass is laid in the holes and grooves when planting plants. Experienced gardeners argue that such a mixture does not allow voracious cabbage girls to get close to the roots of crops.

In the second case, the crushed shell is poured into the aisles and furrows, which are arranged in advance along the perimeter of the beds and around the flower beds. Often, the shell is mixed with spruce and pine needles, fine gravel, stone chips.

You can get rid of adult pests using ordinary glass jars with a capacity of 0.5 or 0.7 liters. They are used as traps, digging into the ground at the site of the discovered passages. It is noteworthy that the capture of cabbage duck in this way is carried out mainly in the summer, when pests make moves and equip nests very close to the surface of the earth.

To catch insects, the jar should be dug in so that its neck is at the same level with the surface of the ground or slightly deeper. Some gardeners pre-pour a little water into the jar - it is believed that this pest is attracted by moisture. Having fallen into the jar, the cabbage will not be able to climb the smooth glass walls to get out.

The aroma of honey is very attractive for gluttonous cabbage, so this product is also desirable to use in the course of a comprehensive fight against these insects. To make the trap, as in the previous case, use a small jar or one and a half liter bottle with the top cut off. From the inside, the container is coated with honey, after which it is dug into the ground in places where pests accumulate. From time to time, traps are checked for the presence of trapped insects.

Some gardeners use an "improved" honey trap. In this case, a jar, smeared with honey from the inside, is dug into the ground and covered with a piece of plastic or tin on top. A bunch of straw is laid on top of the trap, in which cabbage cabbage will hide, attracted by the aroma of honey.

The bear is also attracted by the smell of beer - especially fermented beer. The experience of many gardeners shows that the use of this drink as a bait makes the fight against the bear even more effective. So, to catch a pest, a small amount of beer is poured into a glass or plastic container, after which traps are placed in places where insects are found.

Another way of catching cabbage is to use beer bottles with leftover drink. They are buried at a slight angle in the ground so that the neck is located just below ground level.Straw, pieces of slate or linoleum, scraps of cardboard or paper are placed on top of the trap. Pests, attracted by the intoxicating aroma, will either fall inside the glass container or accumulate in an impromptu shelter above it.

Experienced gardeners know that bears are very fond of warmth, so they can often be found in compost and manure heaps in the cool season (spring and autumn). Given this circumstance, both organic fertilizers (most often manure) are used by gardeners to make special heat traps.

They resort to catching pests in this way in the middle of autumn, when insects, alarmed by the cold, begin to look for places suitable for wintering. At this time, they can be caught by preparing traps in advance according to the following scheme:

• dig several furrows with a depth of 30-35 centimeters in the places where the cabbage is found;
• lay a film on the bottom of each furrow;
• put pieces of manure or compost on top of the film.

Some gardeners also lay straw on top of the manure, which will help retain the heat generated by the decaying organic matter. The finished trap is left for 1.5-2 months. Around the end of November, straw and manure in traps are hand picked, looking for and destroying the detected pests. You can just scatter the contents of the traps around the garden when the air temperature drops below -20 °. In this case, the pests will die naturally, not having time to find a new shelter for the winter. It should be noted that this method is applicable for the capture and destruction of only adults capable of moving along the surface of the earth.

In the spring, when pests are preparing to lay eggs, manure and compost traps will help prevent the next offspring of insects. To do this, gardeners in early spring place small heaps of compost and manure in different parts of the site, and after a couple of weeks they check them for insects.

The complex fight against the bear includes not only measures to capture and destroy it, but also to prevent its appearance in the garden. For this purpose, experienced gardeners use various folk remedies to scare off the pest. Among such means, it should be noted a variety of substances and products that are the source of an unpleasant pungent odor, which the pest is afraid of. An example of such a source is kerosene, which is often used by gardeners to scare away cabbage cabbage.

To do this, in the spring, near green spaces, as well as near greenhouses, greenhouses and compost heaps, shallow grooves are arranged and wood chips or coarse sand, previously soaked in kerosene, are laid in them. In the absence of kerosene, it is allowed to use turpentine or ammonia, which have an odor no less unpleasant for the pest.

Many gardeners use rotten fish to scare away cabbage. Observations show that the fetid odor that it exudes is extremely unpleasant for the pest. An infusion prepared on the basis of onion or garlic husks has a deterrent effect on the bear. With this infusion, gardeners spray both the plantings and the ground around them. Additional protection for plants can be created by planting garlic and onions nearby.

Can't stand the bear and the aroma of some flowers. So, in order to protect garden plantings from the pest, marigolds and chrysanthemums are planted next to them. These unpretentious flowers will not only scare away uninvited guests from cultivated plants, but also make the backyard area more colorful and vibrant.

Experienced gardeners claim that alder and aspen twigs help scare off the cabbage. In order to protect your garden and vegetable garden from the invasion of this gluttonous pest, it is recommended to stick the rods into the ground in different corners of the site.

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