How to get rid of ants on the currants?

Black currant is a healthy, tasty berry.Lush green shrubs covered with fragrant berries, will be a real pride of any gardener. However, in the process of growing plants there is a high probability of collision with pests, who also like black currants: ants, aphids.

Ants and aphids are a vivid example of symbiosis in nature. The power source for aphids is plant sap, pollen, which, when digested, produces honeydew. It is a hearty treat for the ants. Ants are able to assist individuals of aphids. In order to get more dew, they transfer the aphids on themselves to the more juicy, sweet places of the currant.

Therefore, in order to eradicate the ants, it is necessary to do away with the aphids, because it is precisely this that causes the ant invasion. Plants curl leaves, and many gardeners do not know what to do and how to deal with this problem. Sometimes it is enough just to process the currants from the ants.

In addition, insects may appear due to late collection of berries. Overripe currant gives off a particularly sweet smell, on which pests crawl. Fallen leaves also attract ants, ants. In order to avoid the appearance of uninvited guests in your garden, harvest the crop on time, remove the scattered foliage. Although this, of course, will not give an absolute guarantee of security.

The appearance of ants on the site can be regarded in two ways. On the one hand, it is even good.

• First, ants eradicate other pests, such as caterpillars.
• Secondly, they are able to loosen the top layer of soil, enriching it with oxygen. Additionally humus, potassium, and nitrogen penetrates into the soil.

However, experienced gardeners often lead an uncompromising struggle with ants. Harm these insects bring also considerable.

• In the process of building underground tunnels, ants can damage the roots of plants.
• In addition, ants are peddlers of weed seeds. They often carry seeds, appendages of which are juicy and sweet.
• And helping aphid to move through currant bushes, they can be said to contribute to the destruction of berries.

As is already clear from the foregoing, the fight against ants is inextricably linked with the eradication of aphids. To get rid of insects, you can resort to folk remedies, and you can use chemicals. Choose what suits you best. No matter what method of struggle you choose, first of all you need to find an anthill.

Folk remedies are good because they do not require large cash outlay. In addition, they are often prepared from natural ingredients (water, grass), so they do not cause much harm to the plant. Their disadvantage lies only in the fact that for the preparation of the coveted solution or mixture you need to spend some time.

• Often anthills advise pour gasoline on firebut this method is very dangerous. It will be appropriate only in calm weather.
• More recommended to call next to the currant bush acid smell. Dampen sheep wool in a phenol solution, tie it to the branches. If there is no sheep wool, take cotton wool, small pieces of fabric, a piece of clothesline. Acid smell can scare off insects.
• The easiest and most common way to get rid of ants and aphids is planting garlic as close as possible to the currant or even under it. If you are late in planting, you can spread the peeled garlic cloves near the bush, rub the leaves with garlic, and hang garlic arrows on the branches of the shrub.

• But sometimes special preparation is not required at all, for example, to rush against garden ants, rumor recommends flooding the anthills boiling water. Another effective would be digging a nest on the blade depth. You can sprinkle it with baking soda.
• In the fight against ants assistant can become cinnamon. It has a pungent odor that is unpleasant to insects. To scare away ants sprinkle spice near the currant bush.
• In the same way you can use cornmeal. From the use of the product in insects stomach swells. Thus, the flour kills the ants.
• To save currant bushes from aphids (and therefore, warn against ants), spray the bushes soda solution. Do not forget to add linseed oil, liquid soap to the solution. These components are able to keep soda on the leaves for a long time. In addition, this tool will protect not only from ants, aphids, but also from fungus.
• Pest insects can be and with the help of a little trick. Leave as a bait under a currant bush jam, which added yeast. After eating such a jam, the ants will forget about the obligation to carry food to the anthill for a long time. So the anthill will be doomed to a hunger strike, and then death.
• Often advised to fix on the bush branches of wormwood, tomato tops, mint, tansy, elder.

Such methods are good if the insects did not even have time to attack the currants too much. With more intense insect infestation, more stringent methods are needed.

• You can protect the currant bush with soap solution. Dissolve 30 g of soap in 1 liter of water, spray currant bush with the resulting solution. He sticks together aphids with each other. Insects will not be able to move, so they will die of hunger.
• In the evening, when the weather is clear, it will work well. tobacco infusion. 500 g of tobacco dust or tobacco add 10 liters of water. Let it brew for 3 days. Then filter the mixture, add to it 100 g of soap, rubbed with a grater. Processing plants such solution is carried out exclusively in the evening.
• Broth made from potato leaves, will also be able to help in the fight against uninvited garden dwellers. Grind a bunch of foliage, pour 1 l of water, boil for several minutes (no more than 15). Cooked means should stand for a day. Spray currant with decoction.
• Will serve a good service tomato leavesand, more precisely, a decoction of them. Finely chop 4 kg of tomato tops, pour 10 liters of water. Put on the fire, boil for about half an hour. Allow the broth to cool, then place it in the refrigerator.

Before use, dilute the product with water at the rate of 1: 5, add a little grated household soap. The solution will be useful not only in the fight against aphids and ants. It helps get rid of ticks, moths, scoop.

• Gives a good result tincture of onion peel. Take onion "clothes" in the amount of 200 g, pour 2 liters of water, leave to stand for three days. Tincture is also used for spraying the plant.
• Onion feathers also often used as a means against pests. Add to 1 kg of finely chopped feather onions 10 l of water, let it brew for 6 hours, filter the resulting infusion, and then use it for spraying.
• Garlic tincture also repels insects well. Crush 500 g of garlic, pour 5 liters of water, leave for a day, filter. Spray black currant with ready infusion.
• Sagebrush - The most famous natural drug for the eradication of aphids.Take it in the amount of 30 g in dried form, add 300 g of fresh twigs. Wormwood is poured over 2 liters of water, boiled for a while (10 minutes), and then it costs a day. The resulting tool will protect the bush from pests.
• You can do differently by mixing wormwood with ash and soap. Take 500 g of wormwood, finely chop it. Add 200 g of ash, 50 g of household soap.

All components pour 5 liters of water. The solution will be ready for use after 5 hours of infusion. It will need to be diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 2.

• Help in the fight against insects will celandine. It is widely used not only as a cosmetic or therapeutic agent. Infusion of celandine is recommended to spray currant bushes. To prepare the tincture, take 4 kg of fresh plants, chop as small as possible, pour 10 liters of water. Let it stand for a day.
• Dried chamomile also able to stand up against insects in the garden. Fill 10 g of dried chamomile with 10 liters of water. Soak the night, dilute with water in a ratio of 1: 3.
• Dandelion is also an enemy for ants and aphids. Prepare a solution from it. To do this, take 600 g of dandelion (roots too), pour 10 liters of water. Spray currant solution can be after 3 hours.
• Garden beauties - marigolds, It turns out that they are also able to protect currants. From them prepare broth. Take half a bucket of crushed flowers, pour 10 liters of water, leave for 3 days. Before you apply the resulting decoction, filter it, add soap in the amount of 50 g
• Aphids, ants are afraid of red hot peppers. Prepare from it infusion for spraying. Take 1 kg of red capsicum, chop up as small as possible, put in a bucket, pour 10 liters of water. The mixture must be set on fire, simmer for 1 hour.

When the decoction has cooled, put it in a warm place for a few days (two are enough). Filter the resulting product, spray them currant bush. By the way, the solution is able to exterminate more slugs. All of these methods are effective. Choose the one that suits you.

Chemistry is firmly established in our lives, especially in the life of gardeners. Find in the pharmacy and store means to combat ants, aphids is easy. However, you need to choose a really effective, and not just advertised means. Here are some examples.

• "Pyrethrum". Spraying currant with a solution based on "Feverfew", you will kill the insects attacking the plant. This remedy is chamomile powder (a special kind of chamomile is used). But unfortunately, now the production of this product has been reduced, so it is not easy to find.
• "Anti-Ant". It contains boric acid, which does not pose a danger to humans. It can cause paralysis in insects, after which their death occurs. This product is offered in capsules. Scatter them near a bush or leave them near an anthill, an ant nest.
• Often used in the fight against garden pests special gels. Their insecticides have a wide range of action. These drugs are poisonous, so they should be used carefully, following safety precautions.

According to many gardeners, the best helpers in the fight against ants are considered drugs:

• "A great warrior";
• "Brownie";
• "Cuts";
• "Raptor";
• "Storm".

The gel is applied to the currant with the help of a plate, a piece of plywood, thick cardboard, a plastic plate. The use of the gel leads to a massive poisoning of insects. They not only eat the poisonous bait themselves with pleasure, but also drag it with them to the anthill to feed their relatives, including the queen. Death overtakes individuals within three days after consuming the gel. Without feeling any suspicious signs, they all the time eat the tool and feed them other ants.

It is important to know the following.

• To prevent the occurrence of pests on currant bushes, it is necessary to periodically process the plant. The best time of year for the processing of berry bushes will be spring, namely, the period of appearance of green leaves. Treatment can be performed using one of the prophylactic drugs, for example, Fitoverma, Komandora, Aktellika. They are widely known and common.
• During the appearance of the first buds on the currant bushes spraying will need to be repeated. Then processing is carried out immediately after flowering. Such actions will help to exterminate not only I aphids, ants, but also the moth, enveloping the berries with cobwebs.
• But periodic spraying is not enough. To prevent the appearance of pests, sanitization is performed, namely, pruning of bushes. In this process, weakened, affected shoots should be removed. Remote branches are sent to a fabric bag, and then burned. Sanitary pruning is carried out in the autumn and repeated in the summer.

• Before the onset of active growth of the shrub is recommended to scald it with boiling water. This will help the watering can with a shower nozzle.
• To prevent insects from crawling onto the bushes, the trunks are wrapped with double-sided tape.
• In the period of swelling of the kidneys, it is advised to carry out the so-called currant fumigation. Direct smoke from the smoldering fire to the bush.
• When processing shrubs, take care not to damage the plants and your health.

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