Wood ash is one of the most affordable and tested not only by amateur gardeners, but also recognized specialists of folk remedies against pests and plant diseases. It includes about 30 elements: potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, etc. The ash and protects plants from damage, and serves as beautiful feeding.
• With a strong lesion of an apple tree with green apple trees, the leaves should be moistened with water and disappointed wood ash. Thanks to the content of potassium, the taste quality of apples is improved in potassium ash, their libeliness is saved.
• With the appearance of the caterpillars, 300 g of ashes are required to dilute in 10 liters of water, boil for 3-5 minutes, then the solution to strain and spray apple and pears. For better adhesion of the solution, it is possible to add 40 g of liquid economic soap.
• Extractive feeding: 300 g of ashes pour 10 liters of water, bring to a boil, cool, strain, add 20-30 g of urea. Spraying spending in the evening.
• With the defeat of strawberries with a gray rot
Shades need to pollinate sainted ashes, at the rate of 10-15 g on the bush. Pollination can be repeated, but the dose of ash reduce to 5-7 g on the bush.
• Voracious larvae of the May beetle will not touch the roots of strawberries, if the bottom and the walls of the holes during the planting seedlings to frozen the thin layer of ash, sprinkling its wet ground.
• Refrigerates ash and ants: Sprinkle aside aisle, and they will leave the bed. Strained dry ash strawberries will not be on the teeth and naked slugs.
• Wood ash perfectly protects the black currant and gooseberry from fungal disease - mildew. To do this, each bush is evenly crumbling for 200-300 g of ashes and shallow close it in the soil. Spray with liquok: 1 kg of ash pour 10 liters, boil, stirring, 30 min., Cool, let it stand so that the solution is light, and drain. For better adhesion add 40-50 g of liquid economic soap. Spraying, you need to make a good leaves.
The procedure is carried out at night, after the rain, repeat 3 times a day.
• Against aphids, gooseberry fire and sawers Apply such an infusion: 3 kg of wood ash filled 10 liters of hot water, insist 2 days, straighten and spray plants with this infusion.
So that the ash served you the whole season, it is necessary to store it in a dry place: under a canopy, in tanks, buckets covered with a lid.