Often it happens so, as the kitchen garden is prepared, both the soil is fertilized, and seedling is planted in due form, and saplings perish directly in the eyes. Such phenomenon causes shock in the beginning vegetable growers, and here inveterate summer residents and peasants know that the reason for everything medvedka.
Medvedka is quite large bug, its size reaches 6 cm. He lives, mainly, in soils with the increased humidity and speckles the courses all earth, causing thereby death of roots in seedling and saplings.
To destroy medvedka it is quite problematic, it quite quickly moves, is able to fly and float so it is worth combating insect rigid, merciless and it is desirable along with neighbors to exclude movement of the wrecker from the site on the site.
How to frighten off medvedka
Medvedka does not love pungent smells, and some summer residents seek to spread out on kitchen garden something sharply and sharply smelling. In such a way it is possible to frighten off only house from kitchen garden, the medvedka moves underground and the unpleasant aroma just does not reach it. Only will fill up with correct something badly smelling in the courses of bug. The crushed stalks pryano of the smelling flowers, type of chrysanthemums or marigold will be the real assistant. They are displayed on kitchen garden in the fall and dug over. Some advise in the fall to mix sand with kerosene, to strew the site, and then to plow up.
Experienced gardeners advise to display on the courses and holes waste from fish or small small fish, only I do not skin, and with musty smell, begun to spoil. The main thing, is good to fill up the courses, otherwise the medvedka will be replaced by the birds who have flied on aroma of the spoiling small fish.
For fight against medvedka it is possible to use the following solution: in bucket of water to dissolve 3 tablespoons of sal ammoniac and to fill in all this in the courses. You should not be afraid that such water will damage to plants, it, on the contrary, will serve as easy fertilizing.
For those who do not welcome chemistry on the site there is couple more of ways to destroy medvedka.
Egg skorlupk strongly crush and mix with vegetable oil, display the received mix on the courses of bug, in manure heaps or trench in near cultural plants. They say that having eaten similar mix, the wrecker perishes.
In bucket of water to dissolve 6 tablespoons of oil, and to stir until the film disappears. While the emulsion is uniform, it is necessary to pour out quickly it in the courses of the wrecker, oil will not allow medvedka to breathe and she will die.