Homeliness, Pest Control
Tips for flower growers: how to get rid of midges in flower pots
Plants, just like humans, can suffer and ache, they are harassed by all sorts of diseases and pests. If you are tired of age-old problems with flowers - rot, small insects, unpleasant odor and unhealthy appearance, then it's time to think how to get rid of midges in flower pots.
Reasons for the appearance of insects
Moss in violets. How to get rid?
Sciarid can be seen most often in pots with senpolia. But this does not mean that they selectively affect a plant of only one species. Unfortunately, practice shows that over the problem of how to get rid of midges in flower pots, one has to ponder the breeders of fuchsia, begonias, balsamans. Most often their "victims" are plants with soft leaves and young shoots.
Prevention of infection
- Avoid overflowing water into the soil, and drain its surplus from the pallets.
- Do not be too lazy to process the purchased soil. Larvae perish if the ground is properly warmed up (for example, with boiling water) or freeze.
- Watch for the state of the flower, in time remove the wilted buds or leaves.
- With the help of drainage, keep the top layer of soil in the pots dry.
- From time to time, spray flowers with a solution of soap or a special remedy against the sciarids.
- Separate infected plants from healthy ones so that the midge does not spread to healthy shoots.
- If you suspect that the larvae are already present, stick a match in the pot with a sulfur head into the ground. Do not like them and the smell of garlic, crusts of citrus.
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