The Base For Garden Protection Is Good Care
Pests and diseases bring the greatest damage to crops of gardens. For example, gray mold of strawberry in wet years may reduce the harvest up to 30%, and a pest of currant and gooseberry – pickleworm can destroy up to 50% of the crop.
There are many examples like those, that’s why the protection of horticultural crops from pests and diseases is one of the most important and difficult activities for the gardener, requiring not only skill but also the certain knowledge.
The protection of the garden can be quite effective only when a skilful combination of all its constituent elements, such as a good general gardening, timely tillage, proper pruning, the use of biological and chemical agents.
In order to protect the garden from pests and diseases timely tillage is of great importance. With proper treatment, a great number of pests and diseases are being killed, whose lives are in some phase of development related to their stay in the soil. Deep autumn digging area, summer hoeing between rows and around-trunk circles contribute to the destruction of a large number of pests, weeds, disease.
An indispensable condition for pest control, as well as disease is timely weed control, as many pests first settled, and then develop and build up on weeds, and then transferred to crop plants. In fruit trees and berry bushes, they eat away the kidneys, flowers, leaves, take root in young ovaries. In a well-maintained, heavily fruit-bearing garden, there is no weed, so there is less pests.
Timely and proper pruning of trees and shrubs are the most important agro as for garden care and for pest and disease control. For example, removing not fructified sick shoots of raspberry, gardener destroys a large number of pests and diseases, preparing for hibernation, at a scrap of old twisted or immature young shoots of currants or gooseberries are removed from the garden of many pests and their larvae and eggs are pending. In the autumn should be collected and be sure to burn all plant residues, as many pests in their adult phase are flying insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, and at disposal, naturally, they will again be in the garden.
Effective measure to control pests of fruit crops is also setting catching bands on tree trunks. Trapping zones are sacking, corrugated cardboard or paper in several layers, having tied around a tree trunk at a height of 40-50 cm from the ground These belts are attached to trees in early bloom. Awakened from hibernation pests flock to the shade of a tree, and is on its way “secret place” – catching bands, hiding there. Gardener has a day to check and kill the pests gathered there.
