work, work all summer long as a Negro on the plantation.In autumn dig a potato, hoping to enjoy the harvest, and then ... Vintage wireworm damage.It's a shame all realize that this is not just damaged tubers during storage may start to rot, and when used is wasted most of the tuber.Then gardeners are thinking about how to get rid of wireworms in the garden.
Garden, giving feed not only its direct owners."Take the tail" of the owner seeks to further all living creatures, including wireworms.So called beetle larvae, wireworms.Beetle itself to man no threat is, it is the butterfly feeds on nectar, drink it with dew, lives only two weeks.The main purpose of his life - to put soil eggs.This is where it begins an epic titled "How to get rid of wireworms in the garden."Eggs develop in about two weeks or a month, depending on weather conditions.If the hot and dry, they simply die.Wireworms like a cylindrical worm and a length of 1 to 2.5 cm, elastic and hard to the touch.They like soil with medium acidity, wet with lots of weeds.The larvae of the beetle, wireworms live in the soil for 4 years.During this time they pass the stage from eggs to pupae.Moreover, from the second year of development, they just do what they eat everything that comes in your way.Particularly gluttonous larva before they turn into a pupa, during the winter it is transformed into a beetle that flies in May.
Except that wireworms loves the roots of couch grass, he eats everything that grows in the garden.But most of all somehow gets potatoes.Maybe it just takes a large area.How to deal with wireworm on potatoes?
First you need to be sure to get rid of weeds, especially couch grass - a delicacy for the larvae.Next you need to properly observe the agricultural techniques of cultivation of vegetables.You must dig the soil in late autumn.This allows you to get rid not only of wireworms, and even from many pests.During the digging should make the soil ash or burnt lime, egg shells, chalk, mineral fertilizers.Of course, if during digging larvae or pupae are found, they must be ruthlessly destroyed.In the spring before planting the seeds (almost all vegetables) should be soaked in potassium permanganate.The same solution, some experts suggest to spray the grooves in the beds.It advises people to add to the wells potatoes soaked onion peel.The beds in the summer it is necessary to deeply loosen.There are gardeners who fall, once every five years, applied to the soil salt, and you can still fall through the dig site to spray dry powdered flowers of tansy.
Getting rid of wireworms in the garden with the help of chemicals?There is a substance called diazinon.He is a member of some drugs found on store shelves.These drugs are bred according to the instructions and made before planting vegetables in the ground.
There is one very good way to get rid of wireworms in the garden.This planting, green manure, these include mustard and radish.Sow they need after the harvest, they can not stand wireworms.In the spring you can dig and plant vegetables.
