Victoria – tasty and incredibly juicy berry which attracts with the aroma not only people, but also various wreckers. There is a lot of enemies of strawberry, it is possible to fight against each specific look both make-shifts, and toxic chemicals which are much provided in gardening shops.
Widespread enemies of strawberry
Most often landings of Victoria are attacked by strawberry tick. Small insects actively breed when on berry beds there is too much moisture or on the street there is damp weather. The tick lives on mustache and sockets of berry culture. In the spring not seldom there is web tick who exhausts juice from strawberry, and the wrecker entangles internal part of leaves web. All this leads to death of plants, at best – to decrease in productivity.
Malinno-zemlyanichny the weevil spoils not only strawberry. The insect eats leaflets and also buds. In addition, females lay eggs in buds.
If the weevil was got at the dacha or in kitchen garden, the harvest of berries can be not expected. This wrecker is capable to do much harm to all blossoming berry cultures.
Snails, slugs, ants and myriapods also wish to regale on juicy berries of strawberry. They mainly eat fruits, causing considerable loss to harvest. If in time to take measures of fight against them, then it is possible to do without special losses. Strawberry nematode – not less dangerous enemy of strawberry. Small worms which length reaches about 1 mm live in green part of plants. It is possible to reveal the wrecker on characteristic reddish spots on leaves.
Methods of pest control of strawberry
Irrigation of land part of plants tincture from tops of vegetable of tomatoes will help to get rid of strawberry tick. Fill in 1 kg of last year's tops of vegetable with 10 liters of warm, but not hot water. Let's infuse not less than 4 hours, put on slow fire and boil. Filter the received broth, dilute with water 1:1 and add 40 g of laundry soap. Spray strawberry – processing needs to be carried out twice with interval of 7 days. At fight against web tick, strawberry can be sprayed with infusions of tobacco or wormwood, but it is not always effective. After blossoming it is the best of all to carry out processing by the medicine "Fitoverm", and in the fall "Carbophos".
Specify dosage in the instruction which is available on packing or the enclosed sheet of paper.
It is simple to get rid of weevil. Take 1 kg of wormwood, add 4 l of water and boil within 10 minutes. Filter and add 50 g of laundry soap – it interferes with instant running off of broth from leaves. Sprinkle landings. From snails, slugs, ants and other creeping wreckers living on strawberry use copper vitriol. Thin layer spray powder on the soil between rows. If there is too much wreckers, pollinate copper vitriol leaflets, in several hours water landings. It is difficult to get rid of strawberry nematode. If plants are already damaged, they need only to be dug out and burned, and to process the site chloric lime. After purchase of seedling surely wash away the earth remains from roots salt water – on 5 liters of water of 5 tablespoons of salt. Will not prevent to wash out also leaves.