Treatment of cucumbers from diseases and pests with folk remedies

Plants, like humans, are susceptible to disease. They are affected by external factors present in the open ground, the atmosphere. They are destroyed by viruses, fungi and various pests. The article will focus on diseases of cucumbers. You can help them with chemicals or folk remedies. Many people choose the second option, since cucumbers will sooner or later come to our table, and I want to see them appetizing and safe.

Cucumbers can be sick for various reasons:

• lack of moisture or its excess;
• oversaturation with nitrogen fertilizers;
• lack of a number of minerals;
• lack or excess of sunlight;
• contaminated soil;
• cold watering;
• dense growth.

Let's consider the most common diseases.

If white "powdered" spots appear on the leaves and fruits, then the plant suffers from a fungal disease called powdery mildew. At the beginning, the powdery plaque can even be shaken off, but gradually it darkens and thickens. Problems begin in wet weather, with prolonged precipitation. On hot days, illness is much easier to cope with.

People are used to fighting powdery mildew with their own means.

• Used for spraying infusions and decoctions of herbs with antifungal, antimicrobial, insecticidal properties. These include tansy, nettle, wormwood. To prepare the composition, you need 100 g of dry grass or collection, pour 1 liter of boiling water, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes. Insist until cool.
• Tighten with laundry soap, dissolve in hot water, cool. You will get a concentrated soap solution. For 2 liters of water, you will need 20 ml of soap composition and 2 tbsp. tablespoons of soda. The prepared mixture should be sprayed on the plants in the garden in the evening.

The disease is also called downy mildew or scab. It occurs and progresses in warm, humid conditions. At first, the leaves are covered with red spots, which eventually grow and turn brown. As a result, the foliage dries up along with the liana. Fungus protection can be organized in a variety of ways.

• Scab at an early stage responds well to treatment onion peel. For the broth, you need to take 500 g of raw materials and 10 liters of water. Boil for 10-15 minutes over low heat, leave for 24 hours. After straining, the plants should be sprayed. The procedure is best done twice a month.
• Used for processing cucumbers horsetail decoction. To prepare the drug, you need to take 30 g of dry grass and pour 3 liters of water. The mixture is infused for a day. Then it should be boiled over low heat for 2 hours. Strain the finished composition and dilute with water to a volume of 15 liters.

The disease begins with an abundance of white spots on the stems and leaf stalks, which eventually turn into a cotton-sliding bloom. He is the mycelium of sclerotinia.

Consider the methods of struggle.

• Add 2 grams of copper sulfate and 10 grams of urea to a container with 10 liters of water. Treat the plants with this mixture.
• The use of lime mortar also helps.

The disease occurs more often in southern climates, but it also affects vegetation in temperate latitudes with high humidity. Destroys mainly the fruit, sometimes present on stems and leaves. Damage begins with a watery coating, which gradually becomes brown, hardens, breaks the skin and deforms the cucumber fruit. There are folk healing methods.

• Collect fresh leaves of quinoa, burdock, stinging nettle, chop and put in a bucket. They should fill the container 1/3 full. Add a glass of ash to the mixture, add water (full bucket). The composition should be exposed to the sun for three days. Dilute the resulting mixture with water in a ratio of 1: 10. In this form, it is ready for use.
• Mix 1 tbsp. spoonful of mullein with 10 liters of water. The bushes should be processed on a dry, windless morning. On sunny days, you can apply "dusting" with sulfur.

Root rot is caused by parasitic microorganisms, fungi of several types. The plant is affected at any stage of growth, even seedlings. The roots acquire a brown color and gradually dry out.

You can treat cucumber bushes with simple folk recipes:

• a solution of baking soda is suitable in the ratio - 1 tablespoon to 5 liters of water;
• the root collar can be coated with a mixture made from 3 tablespoons of chalk, 1 teaspoon of copper sulfate and half a liter of warm water.

The disease is caused by the fungus phytopathogen Botrytis gray. It can be brought in with garden tools, it also gets through birds, insects. Dense stands, cold weather, excessive moisture or drought are the reasons for the decrease in plant resistance. Once on the leaves or flowers of cucumbers, the fungal colony forms a gray wet bloom, then fluff, as a result, the plant dies. The people are fighting gray rot with simple means.

• For spraying, prepare a solution: 30 g of iodine, 10 g of boric acid, 1.5 g of manganese per 10 liters of water... Processing is carried out up to 4 times a week in the morning or evening. The solution is applied to dry leaves (without dew) using a pump sprayer. Beforehand, you can spray a soapy solution, with its help, the medicinal mixture will linger longer on the cucumber bushes.
• Combine 1 liter of milk and 10 drops of iodine. Mix the composition with water and process the plants.

In addition to the above, there are many other diseases of cucumbers, with which people are fighting in their own way.

• Alternaria... A fungal disease that can halve the yield. They are treated with a strong solution of wormwood.
• Cucumber bacteriosis... The disease is caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas syringae and results in crop loss. A solution is prepared for spraying: 1 teaspoon of brilliant green and boric acid is added to 10 liters of water. Treat with the mixture once every 3 weeks.
• Marbling... The characteristic altered color forms the so-called marble leaves. This color can be in 2 cases: with a lack of magnesium, or with infection with the mosaic virus. They fight it with solutions of ash or potassium permanganate. Mullein mixed with phosphorus fertilizer (2: 1) also helps. The composition is diluted with water and applied at the root.

Over the millennia of agriculture, the people have adapted to fight diseases affecting cultivated plants using the simplest means that can be found in every home or farm of a villager. Most often, iodine, ash, garlic, mullein, and dairy products are used to treat cucumber tops from pests.

On the basis of iodine, many mixtures are prepared to combat fungal diseases of cucumbers. Iodine is a strong bactericidal agent that inhibits pathogenic flora well. There are a number of recipes that are used to prevent and treat plants.

• Iodine is diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 5 and the basal stems are lubricated.
• To prepare the mixture, take 20 g of soap, plan it on a coarse grater, mix with a liter of milk and 30 drops of iodine. The finished mixture is combined with 10 liters of water. Cucumbers are processed in the evening.

The ash left after burning wood is a natural alkali. It not only fertilizes plants, but also kills harmful microorganisms. Ash as fertilizer is good for acidic and podzolic soils, it nourishes the soil and plants, saturating them with microelements.

• To get rid of aphids and ants, the plants are powdered with ash at the rate of 500 g per 1 sq. m.
• To prepare an aqueous solution, mix a glass of ash with 8 liters of water. Plants are sprayed twice a month to prevent fungal diseases.

Lactic acids are good at resisting fungal formations. Serum is used in a mixture with water (1: 8). You can enrich the composition by adding hydrogen peroxide or brilliant green.

A bountiful harvest of beautiful appetizing fruits depends on the correct actions of the farmer.

• Before planting, the seeds are soaked for a while in a weak solution of manganese to kill fungi and bacteria.
• Before the seedlings get into the soil, nutritious fertilizers are applied to it.
• During sowing, the seeds are distributed at an equal distance (20 cm) from each other. It should be remembered that dense growth will be weak and sick.
• After the second leaves appear in the sprout, the plants are fed with nitrogen fertilizers. Then, twice a month, the cucumbers are treated with a mullein.