Experienced summer residents and gardeners, even in winter, do not stop thinking about their land plot. They harvest seeds, fertilizing, organic waste and continue to grow vegetables even in an apartment. On their windowsills, they usually grow a variety of healthy greens, and sometimes other vegetables.
A true vegetable grower and farmer is a regular customer not only in horticultural centers and specialty shops. In his summer cottage, various pharmaceuticals and goods from the most ordinary stores (grocery and household) are needed.
Pharmacy products
Iodine
This antiseptic is familiar to everyone from childhood. In the garden, iodine can be used as a prophylactic agent against various plant diseases, especially those associated with decay. These iodine sprays can protect many crops.
Gray rot is a fungal disease that affects strawberries and strawberries. Spraying with the addition of a few drops of iodine will not only help to cope with the disease, but also add vitality to the plants. The solution is prepared from five liters of water and five drops of iodine and is applied 2-3 times during a month with the same time interval.
When growing tomato seedlings, watering is carried out with a solution containing iodine (3-4 drops per 10 liters of water) to increase the future yield and fruits. The second feeding with the same solution is carried out when the seedlings are growing in open beds. Pour 1 liter of this fertilizer under each tomato bush.
To combat the common disease late blight, such a solution will help: water (10 liters), serum (1 liter), iodine (40 drops) and hydrogen peroxide (1 tablespoon).
You can save cucumber bushes from powdery mildew using a solution consisting of water (10 liters), milk (1 liter) and iodine (about 10 drops). When growing cucumbers, other products containing iodine are also used, which help prevent yellowing of the leaves and rejuvenate the cucumber lashes.
Zelenka
This drug is also considered very valuable in the country. Zelenka is used to lubricate pruning sites on trees and shrubs, as well as for watering and spraying.
For example, using spraying with brilliant green on vegetable beds, you can protect cucumbers from powdery mildew, and tomatoes from late blight. For 10 liters of water, add at least 40 drops of the drug. If you spray cherry trees with this solution, it will speed up and increase the amount of ovary.
To combat slugs, the beds must be watered with this solution: a whole bottle of brilliant green is added to 10 liters of water.
Trichopolus
In order to prevent and protect tomatoes from late blight, regular spraying (2 times a month) with a solution of Trichopolum tablets is carried out. Add 10 tablets to 10 liters of water.
Aspirin
Currants and gooseberries often suffer from powdery mildew. Only a remedy containing aspirin can overcome this disease.
Manganese
It is difficult to do without this tool in the garden or dacha, it is used very often, if not in every home.
In a weak manganese solution, it is usually recommended to soak the seeds before planting for decontamination. The seeds should lie in this solution (1 gram of potassium permanganate per 200 milliliters of water) for about 20-30 minutes, after which they are dried and sown.
If the berry bushes in your area grow on sandy soil, then they just need fertilization. You can water the bushes of any berry crops in early spring with this solution (1 gram of the drug per 3 liters of water and a little boric acid).
Spraying after flowering will be a means of preventing gray rot for strawberry bushes. Add 1 tablespoon of a strong solution of potassium permanganate to a large bucket of water.
It is also recommended to soak potato tubers in potassium permanganate before planting. The solution should be saturated. Such a procedure will protect the culture from fungal diseases and prevent wireworms.
All containers are usually disinfected with a weak manganese solution before planting, greenhouses and greenhouses are treated and the soil is watered.
When using potassium permanganate, you must strictly follow the instructions and recommendations, since an excess of this drug will only harm the plants. Everything is good in moderation.
Vitamins
This vitamin fertilizer is used by flower growers to extend the flowering period and for active plant growth. It is recommended to carry out no more than five dressings every fifteen days. For 10 liters of water add 10 milliliters of glucose and two milliliters of vitamin B1.
Boric acid
You can stimulate the ovary of plants with the help of this solution: 1 gram of boric acid per 5 liters of water. The solution is used for spraying.
The yield of berries increases if you add very little boric acid to a weak solution of potassium permanganate (10 liters). All berry bushes are also watered with this fertilizer to improve the taste of berries.
Experienced gardeners are advised to soak the seeds before sowing in a special nutrient solution of several useful components. To prepare it, you will need onion infusion (onion husks are poured with boiling water) and ash infusion in equal quantities. For 2 liters of this infusion, you need to add 2 grams of manganese, 10 grams of soda and boric acid (about 0.2 grams).
Hydrogen peroxide
In a ten percent solution of this drug, you can also soak seeds before planting. Hydrogen peroxide has a disinfecting effect if you keep them in this solution for at least twenty minutes. Then the seeds need to be washed and dried.
You can use a solution of hydrogen peroxide (0.4 percent) and as a growth stimulant. In such a solution, the seeds are soaked for a whole day, after which they are thoroughly washed and dried. This treatment can be used for parsley, carrot and beetroot seeds. It accelerates the germination of seedlings, strengthens the immunity of plants and has a beneficial effect on increasing the yield.
Tomato bushes can be protected from late blight with a solution prepared from water (10 liters), iodine (40 drops) and hydrogen peroxide (1 tablespoon). This solution is used for spraying as a prophylactic agent.
Household goods and household chemicals for summer cottages
Tar or laundry soap
This everyday household product can be a reliable protection for plants from many pests. A distinctive feature of soap-based decoctions is sticky properties and a specific smell. Pests stick to treated plants and die or bypass them due to the unpleasant odor.
The watering solution is prepared from water and grated soap. Add 150 grams of soap to a ten-liter bucket of water. This product will destroy aphids and other pests in a short time.
Soda ash
If you add 1 glass of baking soda to a bucket of water and generously spray currant and gooseberry bushes, then these crops will not be afraid of powdery mildew.
