Wood resin (tar) contains a huge amount of nutrients that help to resist various diseases and pests. Birch tar is a unique natural gift that has long proven itself positively.
It is used in the manufacture of many cosmetics and beauty treatments. Traditional medicine knows birch tar as a remedy against microbes and bacteria, various parasites and fungal diseases. And of course, this substance occupies a large place in horticulture and vegetable growing.
This natural remedy is able to resist various pests. It will protect any land plot no worse, and most likely better than the most modern insecticidal preparations.
To deal with each representative, it is recommended to use an individual recipe.
Birch tar from pests
Colorado beetle
This especially persistent pest destroys not only potatoes on its way, but also other vegetable crops - sweet peppers, eggplants. Spraying with a special solution will get rid of the beetle and will not harm the vegetable plantings.
The solution contains water (10 liters), birch tar (10 grams) and ordinary laundry soap (about 50 grams).
Onion fly
Better to start with prevention. Before planting onions in the beds, it must be treated with tar. To do this, put the onion in a strong plastic bag, pour a little tar into it and mix thoroughly for half an hour. One kilogram of onions will require a tablespoon of birch tar.
Already planted onions, which have not been processed in advance, can be poured with a solution that includes water (ten liters), household soap (about 20 grams) and tar (1 tablespoon). Such watering is recommended to be carried out twice with an interval of fifteen days.
Cabbage butterfly
All types of cabbage suffer from this beautiful and delicate insect. Its larvae are capable of destroying the entire crop. It is necessary to fight the butterfly on time - before the larvae start to lay. The smell of birch tar will keep this pest away from cabbage beds.
To combat cabbage, you will need ordinary small wooden pegs, unnecessary pieces of fabric and tar. The fabric is soaked in tar and wound around each peg. The pegs prepared in this way must be evenly distributed over all the beds.
Wireworm
To rid root crops of this pest, it is necessary to process the holes or directly the tubers (potatoes) before planting the seeds. Add 1 tablespoon of tar to a large ten-liter bucket of water, let it stand for 1 hour, and then spray the seed planting site. Potato tubers are completely dipped in the solution before planting.
Apple moth
You can protect apple trees by spraying. Add 10 grams of tar and 30 grams of soap to a bucket of water (ten liters). With this solution, it is necessary to process not only flowering trees, but also the soil near the trunk.
Carrot fly
Twice during the summer (at the beginning and at the end), watering is carried out with a special solution prepared from water (10 liters), grated soap (about 20 grams) and birch tar (1 tablespoon).
Plum moth
To combat it, spraying (at the end of spring) with a solution consisting of 10 grams of tar, 50 grams of soap and 10 liters of water will be required.
Sprout fly
It is recommended to water all pumpkin seeds immediately after germination. Add a tablespoon of birch tar to a ten-liter bucket of water.
Mouse
These rodents are capable of destroying not only root crops, but can also spoil fruit trees. It is recommended to mulch tree trunks with sawdust, which has been soaked in a water-tar solution (water - 10 liters, tar - 1 tablespoon).
Hares
The smell of birch resin will scare away these voracious rodents - pests. In the fall, it is necessary to treat each tree trunk with a specially prepared mixture.
The composition of the mixture: birch tar (50 grams), dry chalk (1 kg), mullein (1 large bucket) and water. The mixture should be medium thick.
Purchase birch tar in any pharmacy chain and pests will bypass your garden and vegetable garden.
