As tincture of iodine has bactericidal and antiseptic properties, this cheap means helps also on kitchen garden, destroying wreckers. Besides, iodine - fine fertilizing for vegetables and greens.
Iodine is medicine. He is 5 or 10% spirit solution and is usually applied to disinfection of wounds on human body. But, besides, it is applied in agrotechnology to fertilizing of plants. If in kitchen garden the plant lacks iodine, then it begins to lag behind in development. Spirit solution perfectly helps plant with growth, and the taste and color of fruits will be saturated.
House plants by means of iodine can raise immunity.
Recipe of fertilizing
On 3 liters water it is necessary to add 3 drops of solution and to water once a month during the whole summer. After that at once it is possible to notice result: plants will take beautiful view and will begin to blossom more. But if it is wrong to observe proportion, then it will negatively affect plant, leaves can turn yellow, and flowers to vanish.
Application in kitchen garden
Iodine will be useful fertilizing for each culture. At vegetable cultures the immunity rises and also by means of medicine it is possible to hold preventive events from wreckers. Two types of solution are for this purpose used.
Recipe No. 1
On 10 liters of normal water it is necessary to drip 20 drops of iodine. It needs to be brought before on plants in kitchen garden ovaries were formed. To repeat the procedure each 2 weeks.
Recipe No. 2
Proportions same 10/20, but plus to them the 15th stovy spoons of hydrogen peroxide and 1 liter of whey. This solution fertilize garden vegetation when ovaries have already begun to be formed. It is recommended to apply nutritious means each 3 days. If to fertilize kitchen garden these solutions, then wreckers will not begin to disturb green plantings, they will be healthy, and, therefore, will begin to yield excellent harvest.
It should be noted that after harvesting at fruits there will be no excess of iodine as plants absorb it through the soil absolutely in small quantity.
Pest control
Except addition of iodic solution to the soil they can also spray leaves of plants. The most widespread wrecker is mealy dew which leads of plants to death over time. That will get rid of raid it is necessary to drip on 1 liter of milk 1 drop of iodine and to spray all leaves. It is possible to repeat the procedure in week.
Adverse effect of iodine on plants
But you should not forget that the surplus of iodine has negative effect on plants. Getting to the soil iodine, helps to increase contents in it such useful bacteria as nitrifiers which in turn produce nitrogen. But if to increase dose, then iodine will begin to oppress formation of tsellyulozorazrushayushchy microorganisms that will lead to delay of decomposition of organic chemistry and the soil will just grow poor.