How to prepare an infusion of tomato leaves from pests. Universal use of tomato tops in the garden

Each gardener on his site wants to have healthy fruits, berries, vegetables, and I want to use pesticides less. Your assistants in this will be the plants themselves, animals, insects. When planting in the garden and the garden, it is necessary to adhere to satellite crops, that is, those that protect one another from pests.

Engage Companion Cultures

• Cabbage. The sweet vegetable is attacked by many pests. By combining planting cabbage with dill and onions, you will protect it from pests.
• By planting onions in cucumber beds, you will protect cucumbers from spider mite.
• Onion sets (batun) protects strawberries from nematodes and slugs.
• Garlic and onions will help tomatoes from phytophthora.
• Carrots will help the onion from the onion fly. Onions, in turn, will help the carrots from the wireworm.

So watching the plants, you can find green defenders in the garden and in the flower garden. Many plants in the garden are affected by aphids. Cabbage, beans, cherries, sweet cherries and other crops are severely affected. Spider mite harms cucumbers. Treat these crops with an infusion of garlic, and the pests will die in three to four hours. Plant dill next to them. It will attract hover flies. And onions repel many pests and butterflies. They will not be able to lay eggs on the plant.

Batun onions will help in protecting strawberries from gray rot. Onion phytoncides destroy the pathogens of this disease. It will protect potatoes and tomatoes from diseases and pests.

Plant marigolds (chernobrivtsy) in the garden. They protect the soil from nematodes and are the best predecessors for strawberries.

Mustard, dill, parsley blooming in the garden attract beneficial insects.

Use herbal infusions

In addition to the use of satellite cultures, in the garden, in the garden, it is necessary to process crops and plantings with vegetable infusions.

• At the first signs of illness, tomato late blight and for the prevention of diseases, treat the plants with an infusion of garlic.
• From anger (a pest of gooseberries and currants), a meadow moth (a pest of potatoes and vegetable crops), sawfly, cabbage scoop- night butterflies use infusion of tomato tops.
• From pests such as thrips, small caterpillars, an infusion of potato tops and a tomato will help.
• From such a pest as a wireworm that gnaws through carrot roots and potato tubers, fight by digging potato slices to a depth of five to ten centimeters (marking them with twigs), checking daily and destroying pests.
• An infusion of dandelion leaves will help in the fight against aphids, mites.
• Some gardeners grow burdock. He has importance not only in traditional medicine but also the control of major pests. Freshly cut burdock leaves - one and a half kilograms are put in a tank, poured with five liters of water, insisted in a dark place for three to four days and filtered. With severe damage to plants, add twenty grams laundry soap and mix. Use infusion for spraying against cabbage moth, voracious caterpillars cabbage whites, scoops and many other harmful insects. A good effect is given by a mixture of burdock and mustard leaf(one to two). Use it against meadow bugs and aphids.
• An infusion of burdock is also effective against spider mites. Pour half a bucket of crushed mass warm water brim, insist ten days and strain. You can spray the trees with this infusion at intervals of ten days. After spreading the burdock leaves overnight, collect the slugs hiding under them.
• An infusion of pharmaceutical chamomile will save plants from ticks, aphids, and mice.
• From powdery mildew- diseases of cucumbers, pumpkins, melons, squash, gooseberry bushes and currants - use an infusion of rotted hay. Processing is best done in the evening.

On the household plots you can use not chemical methods pest control using traditional methods.

Grows in nature in the wild and in culture a large number of plants, containing toxic substances. They are harmless to people and not as dangerous as pesticides but are capable of killing pathogens and insects.

Plants in pest control

Let's bring plant description and pest control recipes. However, in the manufacture of infusions, decoctions and powders hands should not touch the face, eyes. Bury the rest of the decoctions in the ground.

Burdock infusion

Burdock leaves are finely chopped, put up to one third of a bucket, poured to the top with water. Infuse the resulting mass for 3 days, then strain through cheesecloth. used burdock against caterpillars of cabbage whites and scoops. Spraying is carried out 3-4 times in 6-8 days. The cabbage will be saved.

Infusion of potato tops

Growing potatoes, we also benefit from the tops. 1.2kg of unaffected fresh or 800g. chop dry potato tops, pour 10 liters of water and let it brew for 3-4 hours. After filtering and spraying any melons and vegetables against spider mites and aphids which die after 3-4 hours. If you increase the amount of potato tops in the infusion, then it will be effective against leaf-eating pests.

Decoction of tomato

400g. cut into pieces tomato tops pour 10 liters of water, cook over low heat for 30 minutes, strain after settling. Before use, add 3 liters of decoction and 40 g to 10 liters of water. soap. Applies against caterpillars and aphids.

A decoction of the tops of black nightshade

A decoction of black nightshade tops is prepared in the same way as from tomato tops. It is used against larvae of various pests and caterpillars. Against younger ages, the effectiveness will be increased.

Decoction of hot pepper

1 kg. chopped fresh or 500g. dry pods of bitter pepper are boiled for 1 hour in 10 liters of water in enamelware, closed lid, two days insist. Then grind the pepper, squeeze and strain. The resulting broth is stored in sealed bottles in a dark place. For spraying against caterpillars, slugs and aphids prepare a solution in the following composition: add 100 g to 10 liters of water. concentrate and 40g. soap.

Infusion of garlic

50g. pass the garlic through a meat grinder. Dilute in 10 liters of water. During the day it is infused, then filtered. An infusion of garlic is used against late blight on potatoes and tomatoes, mites and aphids on cucumbers and cabbage. Spraying is repeated after 10-12 days.

Lime and tobacco dust

Lime and tobacco dust the soil is sprinkled along the rows of onions and garlic against onion fly. Consumption 1-2kg per 100m2. Recurrence in 7-8 days. You can also use wood ash.

Marigolds and chicory

Chicory and marigold(calendula) secrete phytoncides that suppress onion, garlic nematodes, and also repel harmful insects. These plants are planted among the beds of onions and garlic.

Onion infusion

200g. onion scales 10l hot water, infused for a day. Onion infusion is effective against aphids and mites.

Yarrow infusion

800g. grind dried yarrow plants and steam in boiling water for 30 minutes. Top up then 10l. and insist 2 days. This infusion is sprayed against aphids and mites.

Decoction of wormwood

1 kg. wormwood boil for 10 minutes and add water to 10 liters. Infusion is added to this composition chicken manure. used against leaf-eating pests of cabbage.

mustard solution

Dissolve 100 g in 10 liters of water. mustard powder and sprinkled against caterpillars and aphids. Dry powder dusting in dry weather against slugs. Against them, you can sprinkle the soil with a consumption rate of 100g. per 1 m2.

Coriander and castor beans

Coriander and castor beans emit strong odors. The first one repels mice, the second - flies, including the melon fly.

Infusion of hay and straw

An infusion of rotten hay, straw and mullein is used against powdery mildew on cucumbers, pumpkins, watermelons and melons, an infusion of these materials is used. 1kg of any of them is filled with 3 liters of water and infused for 3 days. Then it is filtered and diluted with water three times. Spraying is repeated after 5-7 days.

The use of birds

Birds are reliable helpers in the fight against harmful insects . It is very useful to attract birds. Therefore, it is desirable to have bird houses in individual gardens, and in winter to organize bird feeding. It is good to entrust this work to children.

Using these tips, you can effectively lead pest control vegetable crops in household plots.

Folk ways to protect plants

What are folk ways plant protection, without pesticides and other chemicals.

With pests and diseases vegetable plants fight can be waged not only chemicals, which are sometimes scarce or not available, but also using some wild and cultivated plants containing toxic substances.

Most of the plants listed below are poisonous, so precautions must be taken when harvesting, processing and using them. After working with these plants, you need to thoroughly wash your hands and dishes in which decoctions and infusions were prepared. This utensil is not recommended for other uses. Waste from infusions and squeezed plants should be buried deep in the ground.

Such means of controlling pests and diseases of vegetable plants are either not at all harmful to humans, animals and beneficial insects, or less dangerous in comparison with some chemicals, but have a detrimental effect on pests and pathogens of agricultural crops.

Tobacco dust and lime

Onions and garlic are damaged by onion fly larvae. To combat it in the spring (at the beginning of cherry and dandelion flowering), you need to sprinkle the soil along the rows with a mixture of tobacco dust and lime at the rate of 1-2 kilograms per 100 square meters area or pollinate with wood ash. It is necessary to treat the soil with these substances 2-3 times with an interval of 8 days.

Chicory and marigold (calendula)

When onions and garlic are affected by the onion nematode, the leaves of these plants turn white, wither and dry out. On the bulbs, if you pull them out, even without a magnifying glass you can see many thin round larvae. To combat them, it is recommended to plant chicory or marigolds among the ridges of onions and garlic. These plants repel the pest, promote the healing of plants damaged by the nematode and the disappearance of the pest itself.

potato tops

Vegetables and gourds (cabbage, cucumbers, watermelons, melons), aphids and spider mites cause great harm. When forming and ripening the fruits of these crops, it is forbidden to use chemicals, substances, therefore, it is recommended to spray these crops with an infusion of potato tops. It is prepared as follows: 2 kilograms of fresh potato tops are crushed and poured with 10 liters of water, then insisted for 2-3 hours, filtered and used for spraying. After treatment with this infusion of vegetable plants, aphids and mites disappear after 2-4 hours. An increase in the amount of haulm in the infusion can cause leaf burns. This infusion can also be used against leaf-eating pests by spraying plants in the evening.

Decoction of mustard

Gorchak is a well-known malicious weed that grows everywhere. It must be harvested during the flowering period and used to control aphids and mites on vegetable and gourds. For 1 kilogram of mustard, take 10 liters of water and boil for 30 minutes. Then the broth is cooled, filtered, 30 grams of soap are added to it and used for spraying.

Infusion of horse sorrel and dandelion

Roots can be used to control aphids and mites. horse sorrel and dandelion leaves. To prepare the infusion, take 300 grams of finely ground horse sorrel root or 400 grams of chopped dandelion leaves, pour 10 liters warm water and insist 2-3 hours. After filtering, the solution is used for spraying.

tomato broth

For the preparation of a decoction, waste from the pinching of tomatoes and tops that have fruited is used. Tops with leaves and roots washed from the ground and green unusable fruits are finely chopped and poured with water at the rate of 400 grams of green mass per 10 liters of water and boiled over low heat for 30 minutes. The broth is filtered and poured into a glass bottle, which is tightly closed. To kill aphids, mites, caterpillars and other pests, take 2 liters of decoction per 100 liters of water, add 30 grams of soap and spray the plants. Tomato decoction can even be made from dried tops harvested in the fall after harvest.

Infusion of garlic

For 10 liters of water, take 30-50 grams of garlic, after passing it through a meat grinder. Having stirred well, they insist for a day. Then filter and apply against phytophthora at the beginning of flowering of potatoes and at the beginning of fruit set, treating the area 2-3 times in 10-14 days. This infusion can be sprayed with cucumbers, cabbage and other crops against ticks, aphids and other pests.

Onion infusion

A bucket of onion peel is poured with two buckets of hot (60-70 degrees) water and infused for 1-2 days. After that, filter and dilute twice with water. Used for spraying cucumber plants against spider mites, thrips, aphids and other pests of vegetable crops. Onion infusion should be used on the day of preparation.

Burdock infusion

Burdock leaves should be finely chopped, filled with one third of a bucket and filled to the top with water. You need to insist for three days, then strain and apply for spraying cabbage against caterpillars. Good results gives this infusion during the flight of moths - the beginning of the appearance of caterpillars. Spraying 3 times with an interval of 6-8 days can save the cabbage from damage.

Decoction of wormwood

Take 1 kilogram of dried wormwood and boil for 10-15 minutes in a small amount of water. After cooling and filtering, 10 liters of water are added to the resulting liquid. The action of the decoction is enhanced if an infusion is added to it. bird droppings. To do this, 1 kilogram of dry litter is infused for 1-2 days in a small amount of water, filtered and mixed with an undiluted wormwood decoction, adding up to 10 liters of water to this mixture. Apply this decoction against leaf-eating caterpillars, which die 2-3 days after spraying.

Tomato tops affected by pests must be destroyed, but untouched tops can be used with benefit and even indoor plants.

Tops against pests

1. Dry the tops of the tomato and spread it under the berry bushes in the fall. After the procedure, the insects will go to spend the winter in another place.

2. An effective solution against pests can be prepared from tomato tops. To do this, use any part of the plant: leaves, stepchildren and stems without signs of disease. The tops can be used fresh and dry. It is better to dry the tops gradually in the shade.

Soak 4 kg of fresh or 1 kg of dry tops in a bucket. Take about 10 liters of water than less water, the richer the infusion will turn out.

When using fresh tops, insist it for 3 hours, then boil for 30 minutes on low heat. When using dry tops, leave for at least 5 hours, and boil for 3 hours over low heat, sometimes adding hot water. After the solution, cool and strain. Before use, dilute the solution with water in a ratio of 1:4.

The solution is used in the fight against aphids, mites, flea and whitefish by spraying the affected plant. You can use the solution for both indoor plants and garden ones. The resulting solution is stored in a glass container with a tight lid for six months without changing its properties.

Tops as fertilizer

1. For humus, we cover the collected tops at the end of the garden season with a small layer of earth and leave until spring. Behind winter period the tops rot and can be used for fertilizer land plot. This is fast way suitable for fertilizing garden trees.

2. We put the tops and rotten tomatoes in a small hole in layers of earth and sawdust, pour on top with a solution of one percent blue vitriol and dig in. From above, this place is covered with a dark film with gaps. A year later, fertilizers are poured into these holes.

You can use the resulting substrate the next year, that is, two years after the collection of the tops. Some gardeners can withstand humus for 3 years. This method is longer, but safe when used in case of late blight infection.

3. Tops from tomatoes can be burned, and the resulting ash can be dug up with the ground in the garden in spring or autumn. Also, a small amount of ash can be added to the hole immediately before planting. During the growth of plants, you can water the plants using ash. To do this, add 100 g of tomato ash to a bucket of water for watering plants.

4. The tops are added to the barrel to settle the water and then the plants are watered with this water.

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The gardener's summer season is devoted to growing berries, fruits and vegetables on his plot. But on the way to getting excellent harvest the invasion of hordes may arise. The desire to get not only a large, but also a chemically pure crop encourages the use folk recipes to protect cultural areas. These are decoctions of herbs and vegetables, many of the recipes that have been tested for decades have insecticidal or properties.

There are many recipes for the use of tobacco and tobacco dust, some of them indicate not tobacco, but its variety - shag.

Option 1:

Use in horticulture against pests that live on fruit trees. To do this, trees inhabited by harmful insects are pollinated with tobacco dust on a leaf. You can save the tree only with tobacco dust, but to enhance the effect, it is usually used with fluffy lime in equal parts.

Option #2:

During the mass summer of the sucker and the invasion of aphids on apple orchards fumigation of the garden is recommended. It is advisable to carry out the procedure in calm and calm weather, in the evening. Dry chips are set on fire in an iron container. When the fire flares up, tobacco dust is poured into the fire, which contributes to the appearance of suffocating clouds of smoke with a specific smell. The container is brought in turn under an insect-infested tree for half an hour.
Option #3:

To prepare the tincture, one liter of dry tobacco dust or ground shag is taken, which must be mixed with 10 liters of boiling water and left to stand for a day.

Ash

Ash is used for preparation in dry form and in the form of solutions.

For the convenience of plant growers, here are some detailed recipes.

Recipe #1

The use of tincture is the fight against and caterpillars on cabbage. To prepare the tincture, a glass wood ash added to 10 l cold liquid, the solution is thoroughly shaken and left to infuse for 12 hours. Usually this procedure is done in the evening, in the morning after filtering, the solution is ready for use. Cabbage beds are processed early in the morning, immediately after dawn.
When processing, cabbage leaves are lifted so that the solution gets on both sides of the leaf. Spraying is carried out for several days in a row.

If it is visually visible that the cucumber beds are oppressed and the plants do not grow well, their leaf cover begins to turn yellow, then in order to stop the leaf dying off, a two-liter bag of kefir is poured into 10 liters of water. This mixture is shaken and cucumber leaves are sprinkled with a homemade, herbal broom.
An excellent leaf dressing for adult bushes is such a talker: a liter package of kefir diluted in a bucket of water.

As a preventive measure against the manifestation of phytophthora, tomato seedlings are processed at the stage of four true leaves with such a solution: a 0.5 l package of kefir is taken, 1 tbsp is added to it. coca cola. All this is poured into 10 liters of water and stirred. The solution is ready.

Important!Plants can provide protection and patronage to other species. horticultural crops, you just have to choose compatible friend with a friend herbs or vegetables. They are planted on the same bed, in mixed landings and they repel pests from their neighbor with their fragrance. An example of such a successful neighborhood: and, by the smell they scare away a white butterfly from cabbage beds, and scare away from a neighbor in the garden and, and.

Option 1. The tincture is prepared after pinching tomato garden. 5 kg of tomato stalks are taken, 10 liters of water are poured, infused for a week. The infused solution, together with soaked tomato stalks, is boiled for half an hour over low heat. Leave to cool completely for several hours.
Green boiled stems are taken out of the cooled broth, the broth itself is filtered. It is ready to use. The finished insecticide is poured into glass containers, it retains its qualities throughout the year. Before applying the solution, it must be diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 2 and add 50 g of any detergent to adhere to the sheet.

Option #2.

Tomato tops are used to make a poisonous tincture from cabbage scoops and sawfly larvae. Dry tomato stalks, harvested last fall, are chopped into small pieces. Mix with a liter of water and leave for four hours, then filter and add 9 liters of water. Vegetable plantations are treated twice with a ten-day break.

Did you know? The potato was brought to Europe in the 15th century and remained of little demand for a long time. In the superstitious Middle Ages, the people called the potato a satanic apple, since the tubers irregular shape could resemble figurines of people or animals. And in South America shamans did indeed use human-like potatoes for their witchcraft rites.

potato tops

The elevated leaf mass of potatoes is used to make poisonous infusions and decoctions from garden pests. Decoctions made from potato tops are long-known folk remedies for the garden.
We prepare the broth as follows: one and a half kilograms of fresh potato tops (not infected) or 0.5 kg of dried potato stalks are taken, 10 liters of boiling water are poured. This mixture is insisted for a day, after which it is filtered and 50 g of a liquid soapy solution are added.

Potato stems are a rather toxic substance, therefore, in the preparation of a decoction, the content of green potato mass should not be exceeded, otherwise burn spots may appear on the treated plants.

The infusion is ready for use, it is processed berry bushes, vegetable beds, fruit trees.

Onion peel is natural, organic fertilizer for plants and at the same time, :

• A little laid when planting tomatoes in open ground will significantly increase the yield of tomatoes.
• Old cucumber whips, you can cheer up and rejuvenate, give them a shower or root dressing from a decoction of onion peel. Such top dressing is useful for cucumber weekly.
• Watering the earthen soil mixture prepared for spring sowing of seeds for seedlings with onion broth will disinfect it and neutralize the pathogenic microflora living in garden soil.
• When landing a landing, a handful of onion peel can be added to each hole, which will scare away the larva and.

To prepare the infusion, you need to take one part of dry onion peel and pour it with two parts of the liquid. The tincture stands in the dark for three days. It needs to be shaken up periodically. The prepared infusion is filtered, a little laundry soap is added to it. Before use, the infusion is diluted one to two clean water. Processing with such an infusion is enough to remove pests from the garden.

To prepare a decoction of onion peels, peels from 3-4 kg are taken, placed on the bottom of an enameled bucket and filled with water to the top. Boil for a minute and turn off. Cool down. The resulting concentrate must be diluted. For dilution: 8 liters of liquid are added to 2 liters of concentrate.

Dry ones are used by gardeners to feed plants with calcium. To do this, it is poured in a crushed state into the landing hole when landing on permanent place vegetable crops.

Simultaneously with the functions of feeding, crushed egg shells scare away the bear. Wanting to gnaw the stem young plant, the bear comes across the sharp edges of the shell, experiencing discomfort, the insect retreats.

Did you know? Egg shells are laid on the bottom flower pot as a drain. For houseplant the shell serves both as a drainage and a calcium top dressing.

Eggshells are used in the preparation of a very effective root food for houseplants. This supplement can also be used for garden plants. For its preparation, it is necessary to take from crushed shells from 4-5 eggs and lay on the bottom liter jar, on top of the shell is poured with boiling water to the neck of the jar. The container is tightly closed with a lid. The mixture is infused for a week, with daily shaking of the jar. Next, the mixture is diluted with water. For 1 part of such root dressing, three parts of pure water are added.

Not wanting to use chemistry in their beds, summer residents and gardeners use the experience of several generations, putting into practice recipes for the destruction of pests and feeding plants with environmentally friendly, organic preparations.

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An infusion using tomato leaves is excellent tool maintaining human health.

Infusions of tomato tops are very well known to gardeners and gardeners, as this remedy is an excellent substitute for chemicals from pests. Yes, yes, it is by this means that many save their crops. Well, as for the benefits to human health, it helps very well with hypertension, as well as with reduced intestinal motility.

So, today they are preparing two types of tinctures from the leaves:

• water decoction,
• alcohol solution.

water decoction

This is the easiest way to make a healthy infusion if you have fresh or dried tomato leaves on hand.

Ingredients

• 3 liters of water;
• 1 kilogram of tops.

Cooking

1. The stages of preparation are very well known to everyone. Boil water, then pour boiling water over the leaves.
2. Infuse for 20 minutes, after which the infusion can be taken for baths for rheumatism or drunk small quantities during the day.

You can also use less water and tops, and then brew in a thermos.

alcohol solution

Alcohol tincture is taken drop by drop depending on the disease. So, for example, when high pressure drink it 10-20 drops 3-4 times a day. To improve bowel function, 10 drops half an hour before meals 3 times.

Ingredients

• 500 grams of green tops;
• 500 milliliters of alcohol.

Cooking

1. This infusion can be prepared both from fresh green leaves and from dried ones. It is only important to maintain the proportions in a ratio of 1: 1.
2. If you use green tops, then you need to knead it well or pass it through a meat grinder, and then pour it with alcohol. If dried raw materials, then just insist two weeks.

Properties

The beneficial properties of tomatoes and their leaves have been known to man for a long time. This drug is a good remedy to maintain health. Fresh foods are very helpful for the treatment and prevention of polyavitaminosis and all types of intestinal ailments. The leaves contain high amounts of tomatidine, which has antifungal and antibacterial properties. That is why the infusion of tops is recommended to be used externally for treatment. skin diseases, for wound healing. These vegetables keep well. beneficial features and even when heat treatment do not lose them, but on the contrary, increase them. Tomatoes are good to eat fresh, salted, pickled and canned. To maintain the vitamin balance in the body, as well as for the abundance of minerals and salts, experts advise eating three red fruits daily. It is best to eat them before lunch. Such a tomato diet will help improve the functioning of the digestive tract and prevent infectious diseases.

Application

When we eat juicy red tomatoes, we don't even realize how unique and irreplaceable these vegetables are. Scientists at Harvard University ranked them among the ten most useful products. They contain pectin, lycopene, minerals and many vitamins. That is why these vegetables are often a means of treating and preventing many diseases.

Steroid glycoalkaloids, in particular tomatine, are isolated from the leaves of the plant, which is very helpful in fighting fungi and viruses. Taking inside the infusion of tops, we do the prevention of infectious diseases and various lesions of the mucous membrane. Take it drop by drop, several times a day.

Contraindications

Yet despite their usefulness, tomatoes and their leaves have their contraindications. For example, it is advised to limit the consumption of vegetables to people who have metabolic disorders. Also, red foods, as we know, often cause allergies. To get involved in tomato tincture should not be with cholelithiasis. In any case, before taking the medicine, even in the form of prophylaxis, you should consult with a phytotherapeutist.

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Nature is conceived in such a way that some plants help others cope with serious ailments caused by improper care, unfavorable weather conditions or an invasion of voracious insects.

Plants - saviors emit the so-called phytoncides, substances that can destroy microorganisms and uninvited insects. The recipes for their preparation were known to our ancestors, but, unfortunately, not all of them have survived to this day. Among them there are those that gardeners like, because their use is beneficial and has an obvious result. They allow you to get environmentally clean production, which cannot be said about other plant protection products. One of these effective "vegetarian" recipes is an infusion of tomato leaves and tops.

Let's take a look at the secret of the popularity of this remedy and how to prepare it correctly.

Why tomato infusion is considered a panacea

An infusion of tomato tops is recommended to be used against pests of cabbage leaves and cucumbers - caterpillars, aphids and spider mites. An infusion of leaves, tops and stepchildren scares away even the most formidable potato pest - colorado potato beetle.

Our ancestors also knew the peculiarity of tomato tops - it is poisonous, so they treated it very carefully. Scientists, having studied the composition of the tops and tomato leaves, came to the conclusion that they contain the alkaloid solanine, a poisonous organic compound.

Of course, a large role for the growth and development of garden crops (especially tomatoes, cabbages, cucumbers, beets, peppers, etc.) is played by preventive actions. If they are not done on time, most crops can be lost. To avoid this, the effective folk remedy- infusion of tomatoes.

Preparing an infusion of tomatoes

Remedy for aphids, Colorado potato beetle and spider mites:

• We need about two kilograms of chopped green and juicy tops, or leaves and stepsons of tomatoes. It can be poured with a bucket of hot water and let it brew for four hours, or bring to a boil and simmer for half an hour.
• If you need less volume, try this method. Pass 40 grams of tops or stepchildren of tomato through a meat grinder, fill it with a liter of warm water, after three hours the infusion will be ready.

The resulting infusion must be filtered and thirty grams of soap should be added as an adhesive.

Processing of potato tops, cucumber leaves and cabbage can be repeated every 10 days.

It is known that during the first twelve hours after treatment, 90% of the mites die and crumble under the leaves.

In addition to fighting insects, the infusion of stepchildren and tomato tops does an excellent job with diseases of tomatoes, peppers and potatoes.

1. The infusion of stepchildren, tops and tomato leaves is not as harmless as it seems at first glance, therefore, before using it better remedy test. Spray part of the bush or a few leaves of the plant and wait a day. If no spots appear on it, the leaves will be as juicy and green as before processing, feel free to start spraying.
2. It is better to treat plants early in the morning or in the evening when the heat subsides, otherwise the plants may suffer.
3. Strictly adhere to the recommendations, in this case it is dangerous to overdo it.
4. Don't Forget Funds personal protection, protect the skin, eyes and respiratory organs from toxic particles.

Gardeners have long preferred organic plant protection products against pests to pesticides, because they are absolutely safe for the health of people, animals and birds. Plant poisons do not accumulate in the soil, and their toxic properties disappear in the light, therefore, for example, cabbage treated with tomato tincture can be eaten as early as 12 days after treatment.

More details on how to make an infusion from the video:

Tincture of leaves and stepsons of tomato

Tomato tincture is well known to gardeners and gardeners as a means of controlling insects, but not everyone knows it. healing properties. It can significantly improve the state of health, as it helps to stabilize blood pressure, cope with bowel problems and solve other problems.

Stepson tincture is made of two types:

• in the form of a water decoction;
• like an alcoholic solution.

Recipe 1.

An aqueous decoction of leaves, tops or stepchildren for rheumatism. To prepare it, you need to take a kilogram of chopped greens and pour three liters of boiling water. Insist for 20 minutes and drink in small sips after meals or add to water for water procedures.

Recipe 2.

Alcohol tincture from the tops. Alcoholic tincture can be prepared from dry or fresh leaves or tops. Dry leaves are poured with alcohol in a ratio of 1: 1, in the second case, the proportion is preserved, but the leaves are ground with a blender or meat grinder.

To normalize the pressure, it is taken 10-20 drops three times a day, if there are problems with the stool, the tincture is taken thirty minutes before meals three times a day, 10 drops.

As we can see, not only fresh tomatoes, leaves and tops serve indispensable assistant to humans in the cultivation of crops and are used as medicines.