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- Scores of aphids on balcony plants - what to do?
- Detecting aphid infestation in time - tips on the symptoms
- Successfully combating aphids with home remedies - that's how it works
- Aphids-infested balcony plants can not handle a spray - what to do?
- Tips
Heavily infested balcony plants should ideally be quarantined
Scores of aphids on balcony plants - what to do?
Aphids have no mercy when weakened balcony plants cross their path. Within a few days shoots and leaves are littered with the pernicious pests. The earlier Balkongärtner switch to counter-attack, the more effective the successful control. The handle to the chemical club is usually superfluous. How to act properly in aphid infestation of balcony plants.
Detecting aphid infestation in time - tips on the symptoms
The earlier you tackle the control of aphids, the better the chances of survival for affected balcony plants. The following symptoms indicate the pest infestation:
Successfully combating aphids with home remedies - that's how it works
If you have come to terms with aphids, infested balcony plants first of all come into quarantine. If the insects are weathered badly, a winged generation, which migrates to neighboring plants, develops in no time at all. In the isolation you take the plant lice with the following home remedies on the grain:
From the fresh leaves of not flowering stinging nettle plants you make a powerful remedy for aphids. For this purpose, pour 100 grams of nettle leaves with 1 liter of boiling water and allow to simmer for 24 hours. Then remove the broth and dilute it with water in the ratio 1: 10. At intervals of 2 to 3 days spray the entire plant dripping wet, including the undersides of the leaves.
Aphids-infested balcony plants can not handle a spray - what to do?
Combating aphids with water-based sprays is counterproductive if fungal diseases are already rampant on the balcony, such as mildew. Damp leaves and shoots attract fungal spores of all kinds, so that a dry method of control becomes the focus. You will need a powder syringe or a hand brush to apply the following means:
Ideally, pollinate the aphid-infested balcony plants early in the morning when the leaves are moist with dew drops.
Tips
Before wintering in the cellar, please examine your balcony plants with the magnifying glass on aphids and their eggs. In late summer, the last females produce numerous eggs that hide well on the undersides of the leaves or in the leaf axils.