How to use iron vitriol in gardening

How to use iron vitriol in gardening

In gardening for receiving good harvests it is impossible to do without chemistry. Universal remedy for pest control and diseases is iron vitriol – the powder of greenish-blue color soluble in water and not having smell.

  • Powder of iron vitriol, capacity under solution, the spray.

1. Iron vitriol – available and cheap means for increase in fructification and pest control. As fungicide use it for processing of garden trees, bushes and ornamental plants from defeats by scab, fruit decay, sheet maculation of wild strawberry and raspberry, currant anthracnose, rust. Use of vitriol well influences plants, bark of trees becomes smooth, leaves gain saturated color. The harvest of fruits increases.

2. Also iron vitriol destroys insects and their larvae. It disinfect walls of basements and vegetable storehouses. Its application as microfertilizers, for enrichment of the soil with iron is possible. Especially it is useful for apple-trees, pears, plums, cherry. Fertilizing in the form of spraying and to vegetables will not damage: to potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage. You bring also iron vitriol (1 kg) together with compost (100 kg) in soil during autumn or spring redigging.

3. For disinfection of wounds on fruit-trees prepare solution from 100 g of iron vitriol and 1 l of water and process damages on trunks. The same structure bleach in the fall (in октябре−ноябре) trees, whitewashing perfectly destroys disputes of fungi. It is impossible to mix for whitewashing iron solution with lime. For fight against scab, black crayfish use 5-7% of solution of vitriol, he prepares simply – in 8-liter bucket of water part 500−600 g of solid matter and spray trees. Do it in the fall, after harvesting. In the spring, before blooming of kidneys, make 1 processing, reduce concentration of solution to 1%.

4. For treatment of bushes of 250 g of vitriol part in 10 l of water, roses from black spottiness spray with weak solution – 30 g on 10 liters of water. For the purpose of fight against apple-tree medyanitseyu apply 3% solution of iron powder. If on trunks of fruit-trees there were lichen harbingers – hardly noticeable islands of moss, take urgent measures. Prepare structure from 5% sulphurous iron and cindery extract, cover with this structure trunks of trees in the fall, after leaf fall. It is the most effective way of fight against herpeses and mosses.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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