Summer is a period when summer residents cannot be envied. And all the work on the site must be carried out in a short time so that the harvest is good, and not to miss watering, and do not forget to thin out the plants. And then there are various pests annoying. Among them is aphid, which attacks currant bushes in summer. If the plant has not yet bloomed, then they will help chemical agents... However, most often this pest makes itself felt during the period when the first green berries appear. What to do and what means can be used to save the harvest of such tasty, aromatic and healthy berries?

It is better, of course, to start the main processing of currant bushes during the period when the first green tips appear on them in the spring. Various preparations for aphids on currants (Fitoverm, Komandor, Aktelik, etc.) are not a problem to find today. A wide range of them is offered in any specialized stores. But do not think that one aphid treatment for currants will be effective. Spraying will need to be repeated when the first buds appear. Two more treatments should be done immediately before and immediately after flowering. It is worth noting that after the first two sprays, the green aphid on the currant will practically disappear, and the third treatment will scare off the moth, the caterpillars of which the berries are wrapped in thick cobwebs. Fourth spraying - preventive measure fight against aphids and other pests on currants.

It is worth noting that gall aphids on currants are a consequence of the appearance of ants on currants. The appearance of these insects should immediately alert you, because ants use aphids as so-called cows. Helping pests to settle on the plant, they feed on paddy - a sweetish liquid that aphids release after they suck juice from currant leaves. If you kill the ants, then the aphids will leave the currant bushes alone. Fill all ant paths with an ash solution or infusion of water with hot pepper.

And how to spray currants from aphids, if time is lost, and the leaves on the tops of the bushes are already twisted? Summer residents have long been familiar with folk remedies that help get rid of pests. So, how to destroy aphids on currants and save the harvest. Below are methods to help you solve the problem.

Currant bushes, which are attacked by aphids, are best processed in the afternoon three times a week. Folk methods do not give the same result as chemicals, but there will be no harmful substances in the berries. If after the treatment the aphid has not disappeared, do not stop fighting it - the result will be, but later.

It is also worth planting spicy plants under currant bushes. The aromas of parsley, coriander, dill, parsnip, sage and these pests repel. But the neighborhood with corn beds for currants is dangerous, since aphids are very fond of it.

Aphids on currants are not uncommon. The presence of this pest can be judged by the state of the leaves of this plant - in black currant, the leaves curl when the bushes are attacked by the pest, and specific swellings with a reddish tint are formed on the leaves of the white or red currant. This small insect can drain bushes and destroy them. How to eliminate pests? "Popularly about health" tells about the fight against aphids with folk remedies on currants.

Aphids - what is this insect and what is its danger?

Externally, the aphid is a small insect about 2 millimeters long with a greenish tint. His life cycle is very short, so more than 10 generations of insects can change in one warm season. They are fed by juice from the leaves of currant bushes. Small pests hide from the lower part of the leaves, pierce them with tiny proboscis and suck this very juice.

Everything would be fine, but whole hordes of insects live on the affected bushes, which constantly take nutrients from garden crops. As a result, due to lack of nutrition, the plant weakens, the leaves dry, the shoots are deformed. O good harvest then there is no need to speak. Interestingly, when one bush is completely weakened, a flying aphid appears, which moves freely through the air on intact bushes, laying eggs there. So gradually all healthy currant bushes may be damaged by the pest. What to do? Declare war on insects, and how, you will now find out.

First precautions

If you notice the formation of blisters on the leaves of currants, immediately inspect all other bushes. Attention must be paid to the lower part of the sheet plates. It is there that aphids most often live. If other plants are not yet damaged, you need to act immediately. Tear off the spoiled leaves and destroy, it is best to burn them. The surviving shoots should be powdered with tobacco dust with ash (1: 1). But what if the aphid has spread to other currant bushes?

Fighting currants with aphids folk remedies

Most gardeners constantly use folk remedies to combat a variety of insect pests, rather than chemicals. I do not want to use insecticides, because they themselves will have to eat berries. Chemicals are used in extreme cases, and even then not always, because it is allowed to process bushes with them only before the formation of ovaries or after harvesting. The rest of the time, it is better to deal with aphids with proven and safe folk remedies.

Soap

Laundry soap is used to exterminate not only aphids, but also other insects. Dissolve 100 g of soap in a bucket of water with a capacity of 10 liters, after grinding it. All affected bushes are thoroughly treated with soapy water. This tool is sometimes prepared with the addition of ash (about 250 g of ash is taken for this amount of solution).

Herbal remedies for aphids

Infusion of celandine is also used to destroy aphids on currants. You will need about 2 kilograms of fresh grass. They put it in a bucket of water (cold), insist for a day. Spraying the culture is carried out carefully, using gloves, because celandine - poisonous plant... This method is not used from the beginning of the formation of ovaries until harvest, for obvious reasons.

With aphids, the fight is possible with the help of a dandelion. These flowers are also not liked by insects, because gardeners use its roots and other parts to prepare a fragrant infusion. Raw materials will need about half a kilogram. Chop the plants and roots and place them in a bucket, fill with 10 liters warm water... After daily infusion, the agent is used to spray all currant bushes.

The smell of horse sorrel will also help get rid of aphids on currants. Take 500 grams of freshly picked herbs and boil with boiling water (10 liters). After cooling, the infusion is used for spraying.

If you grow marigolds, then you can also insist on water and get them effective remedy from insects that harm currant bushes. Put 500 g of flowers together with the stems in a bucket of water, let it brew for a couple of days. The infusion is ready. Carry out the processing as in all previous cases.

One more good remedy- infusion of garlic. Peel as much garlic as fits in a glass, chop the cloves. Transfer the raw materials to a jar and fill with a liter of water. Garlic should be infused for 5 days. The resulting concentrate is used in a diluted form for spraying bushes - 50 ml of garlic infusion are taken in a five-liter bucket of water.

Additional aphid control measures

To finally get rid of aphids, inspect the area for the presence of anthills and destroy them. It is the ants - best friends aphids. If there are no ants, the aphids will also disappear. And also try to attract ladybirds to the garden - they are the worst enemies of pests. Planting dill, marigolds, parsley in the garden will help attract beneficial insects.

Even with household and herbal remedies, the fight against aphids on currant bushes will not take much time. But only if you find a problem in time ... Otherwise, you will have to process the bushes with various infusions every two weeks, since aphids multiply rapidly. Be careful not to let these insects dominate your garden.

Aphids appear on currant branches in early spring when the leaves are just blooming. True signs gall aphid- reddish or orange swelling of galls, black and green aphids cause severe deformation of the leaves, they curl into a ball or roll into a tube.

If you have the opportunity and enthusiasm, you need to take care of the currants even with early spring, and in warm regions from the end of winter.

Scalding currants with boiling water

As a preventive measure against aphids and kidney mites, scalding the bushes with boiling water helps to some extent. As soon as the snow begins to melt, there are already thawed patches, and the trees and shrubs are still asleep, as soon as the circle of earth at the base of the trunks is free of snow, you can prepare for the procedure.

We heat boiling water in an iron bucket, pour it into a metal watering can and go to water. Water must be prepared in advance, because one currant or gooseberry bush takes from 5 to 10 liters hot water(it will cool down until you bring it to the berry). A shower head is required to the watering can so that the irrigation goes in thin streams, and not in a wide stream of hot water.

Before watering, make sure once again that the buds are dormant, not swollen.

• What boiling water gives: some of the aphids' eggs lay right on the branches, if you take a magnifying glass you can see them - small grains near the buds. And inside the kidneys, a kidney mite hibernates, scalding with boiling water helps to significantly hit this pest. If you see that some of the kidneys are thickened (currant kidney mite) - pluck them right away and into the fire. By the way, scalding also protects well against powdery mildew!

To water or not to water the currants with boiling water? For a long time I doubted whether I was doing the right thing with scalding, I didn’t scald it for some years, and there were always more aphids and mites in these seasons. The problem is that when pests go on a rampage, it is still very cold outside, and any solutions of chemicals have temperature restrictions, only folk remedies remain, but they are effective only with repeated spraying, sometimes it is too tiring and time-consuming.

The scalding procedure itself is not easy in fact - you need to heat a lot of water (like in a lightning on bricks or a grill), it is also somewhat annoying to walk with a watering can of boiling water in the garden, this is a man's job. To water large currant bushes, we stand on a bench to process everything completely. Therefore, everyone must decide for himself whether this procedure suits him or not.

Fumigation

Gardeners often practice fumigating aphids by burning various means. They burn rubber, tobacco and a raincoat mushroom.

All fumigations help well, only you need to start not before bud break, but at the moment when the buds began to swell and are ready to open.

The easiest way is to put in old saucepan a piece of burnt bicycle tire or tire and place it under each bush to smolder.

Beekeepers use a smoker for mushrooms and tobacco; only large, ripe mushrooms are suitable.

As far as all this helps: real results were given by fumigation, which lasted three hours. We smoked tobacco from 7 pm to 10 pm (in calm weather), the aphid died almost completely. It was enough once. After that, it was enough to follow the anthills.

Disadvantages of the method: the easiest way is to fumigate with rubber - put it under the bushes and left, it smolders, there is a lot of smoke. Fumigation with mushrooms and tobacco in a beekeeper's smoke is very slow, you cannot move away, you need to walk around the currant bushes and inflate the furs. The smoke is thick and acrid. You can spread damp tobacco leaves to smolder in a small grill, but this is impractical - you need to control the wind and for a very long time (if a dozen currant bushes).

Conclusions: I think that fumigation is not worth wasting time and health, combustion products are too toxic for humans.

Examining the bushes

Spring began, the buds turned green, and then young leaves blossomed. We examine the currants, especially the tips of the shoots, if suddenly the leaves began to curl into lumps, corrugation appeared, we immediately cut them off into the stove.

In the future, you need to monitor the shape of the leaves, rarely when it is possible to get rid of aphids by 100%, but you can restrain its rapid reproduction.

Do not forget to timely trim the currants, cut out old branches and partially young ones if the bush is thickened.

How to process currants from aphids

Young currant branches bend well and they are not as prickly and branched as gooseberries, so you can not only spray it, but also dip the branches in a solution of insecticide chemicals or any folk remedy for aphids prepared according to the recipe.

I do this: I dilute an insecticide solution, usually it is either in proportions to a bucket of water, always warm (at least 20 degrees). Preparing a shoulder-mounted pump sprayer (not a hand sprayer).

I go up to the bushes and take turns dipping all the branches, trying not to miss a single one. By that time, the leaves had barely blossomed, the size of a ruble coin. She dipped, poured, let go.

And so every bush. Then I pour it from the bucket into the sprayer, and spray all the bushes, now from the base of the branches to the tips and always the soil under the bush.

• When treating a garden from aphids, patience and thorough spraying are important.
• It is important to guess with the weather - in the morning or in the evening, always calm.
• It is important to find an insecticide that can work at a certain temperature (some are ineffective in the heat, others in the cold).
• It is important not to poison the bees with chemicals, we really need pollinators in our garden and vegetable garden.
• It is important to predict the rain so that all the work of spraying does not go to waste the next day.
• When spraying, push the sprayer tube deep into the bush and direct it in different directions, so the underside of the leaves is better wetted.

Aphid onions on currants

I also have my own secret - a decoction of onion peel helps very well, but you need a lot of raw materials. For a bucket of water, half a bucket of well-tamped onion husks.

In the procurement of raw materials I found a way out - all winter I go to the vegetable department of the store, there very often customers sort out onions, and a lot of husk remains in trays and baskets, it is usually thrown away. I ask permission and type whole packages for free.

Pour boiling water on the onion husk and cook for 10-15 minutes to destroy the spores of harmful microorganisms in the husk. Then I leave the broth until morning.

I filter it, add a tablespoon of green soap. I pour it into the sprayer and go ahead with the song of the war on aphids. I start spraying onion peel as soon as possible. I repeat at least 3-4 times.

I want to note that there is no special recipe for processing bushes and trees, besides onions, you can also process other means, in this case it is important to have a good tool. The entire success of an enterprise depends on the sprayer. If the device is good, just fill in the solution, fix the button and stand by the bush, or rather slowly walk around it in a circle.

Plants that repel aphids

There are plants that can scare away aphids from currants and other berries. These are catnip, marigolds, mustard, coriander, chives, fennel, garlic, mint.

I must say that such planting does not guarantee getting rid of aphids. I planted garlic, catnip and marigolds near the currants, it did not help much, perhaps it was necessary to enclose the currant bush in a close circle of defenders so that neither ants nor aphids would get close, but I didn’t want to fly like Carlson with a bowl in my hands, picking berries.

Therefore, do not particularly rely on the protection of these plants, although most of them attract beneficial insects to the garden, not only bees, but also hoverflies and ground beetles that eat aphids.

Folk remedies for aphids

During my gardening history, I have tried various means to get rid of aphids. And I made my own rating, periodically tested one method, then another. In no way do I claim, I just share my impressions:

In my garden, spraying with yarrow and chamomile was completely useless: I prepared a solution of 100 g of dry grass per 1 liter of water, boil, cool, strain, add soap.

I did not like the aphids, but spraying with tomato tops, dandelion leaves and roots (500 g of leaves + 200 g of roots, insist on boiling water for a day) were statistically insignificant.

Citrus infusions helped against aphids: the peels were frozen, not dried. Grind the peel from one orange and steam with 1 liter of boiling water, when it cools down, add 2 drops detergent for hands. But then I checked, not all citrus fruits help, there are such varieties of tangerines and oranges, whose peels are very vigorous - if you chew it stings your tongue - that's what you need.

Another effective remedy: steamed leaves of celandine, if it grows in your area. I have a lot of it, it grows even under currant and gooseberry bushes and in this form does not frighten aphids at all. But an armful of leaves chopped up and steamed in a bucket of boiling water significantly reduced the number of aphids.

This method helps against aphids: in warm weather, when the water is not cold, water the currant bushes under the strong pressure of the hose, some of the aphids are simply knocked down with water. Then sprinkle the powder from the mixture on wet leaves: 1 glass of ash (fine sieved), 1 teaspoon of mustard powder. The method is effective before the leaves are strongly twisted and deformed, when the leaves are still small and the skeletal branches are clearly visible.

But do not flatter yourself about folk remedies, especially when, in addition to currants, aphids have chosen plums, cherries, rose bushes - with mass defeat pests simply do not get enough of folk remedies - they do not get to aphids in twisted leaves. Here the systemists are to help: Aktara, Confidor, - they soak the leaf through and through, and the aphid dies in any case.

Ant fighting

Those who have not tried it yet should know what to expect - a long war. Ants feed on aphids, cultivate, someone even assures that they milk - tickle the aphids' sides until they describe themselves with sweet syrup. I haven't seen it myself, I won't lie.

I tried chemistry against ants, and various infusions of herbs, skirts and Velcro on the trunks, by the way, they helped on plums and cherries, but you cannot put such protection on currants, you need to eradicate anthills in the area.

What helps against ants: pee in the anthill from the heart, and pouring boiling water with acetic acid (for 1 liter of boiling water, 1 tablespoon of 9% vinegar). Urine and acid are categorically disgusting to them.

I fight with ants only in spring and early summer, the rest of the time all useful animals in the garden fight with them. I don’t know who exactly eats ants, except for hedgehogs, but even without my efforts, their number is sharply reduced, and with them the number of aphids.

If you want to use industrial chemical poisons, then pay attention that the drug is intended specifically for the destruction of black garden ants. Homemade ginger ant remedies don't work.

Keep the garden clean, do not plant weeds up to the waist, while mowing, inconspicuous anthills will be visible.

Julia Reshetnikova, Vladimir

Aphid is a small insect (2-3 mm), settling on currants, with a piercing-sucking mouth apparatus and two pairs of wings (winged individuals). The body can be light green, grayish-green or yellow-green in color. In the spring, when the first leaves appear, young insects hatch from overwintered eggs. Females reproduce rapidly without fertilization. Only females are born. The aphid colony is growing rapidly. When food becomes scarce, winged forms appear, migrating to neighboring bushes. In the fall, males begin to be born. They will fertilize females, and they lay eggs on the branches near the buds before the onset of cold weather.

How to recognize aphids on currants?

This pest prepares for a new summer cottage season since autumn: it lays larvae that winter on plants. In spring, black, green, brown insects multiply rapidly, feeding on the sap of young trees and bushes. Signs of aphids on currants:

1. Reddish bumps appear on the leaves.
2. On the branches, you can distinguish white scraps - pieces of skin that aphids have thrown off.
3. The leaves dry up, curl, bend, the buds do not have time to open, and the fruits do not ripen.
4. Many ants are running along the branches.
5. The plant is covered with honeydew, a sticky liquid produced by aphids. Ants feed on these secretions with pleasure.

Aphid activity peaks in June. Several generations of insects are born over the summer. When there is little nutrition for all individuals on one bush or tree, winged forms of this pest appear. They fly to neighboring plants in search of a new place of residence and food. Because of the aphids, the currant loses nutrients and does not develop, and also begins to suffer from viral infections. Therefore, it is necessary to remove aphids from the site from early spring.

Prevention with aphids on currants

Everyone already knows how to deal with harmful aphids on currants, but the question of how to prevent aphids from entering their bushes is important. There are a number of measures that can be taken regularly to reduce the possibility of infection. With annual pruning, you need to remove all affected shoots, here it is definitely better to be safe. It is imperative to weed out the weeds around the bushes, and in the fall and spring well dig up the ground under the bushes and around them.

They do an excellent job of clearing the garden from aphids ladybugs and lacewings. If they live in the garden, then aphids will never disturb your plants, but the widespread use of broad-spectrum chemicals has reduced them to a minimum in summer cottages. To attract them, you can sow marigolds, yarrow, tansy, allisum, dill, parsley between the currant bushes. Ladybugs often live on buckwheat. But you need to get rid of ants, otherwise, whatever you do, the ants will bring aphids into the garden all the time.

Bushes can be periodically powdered crushed into dust wood ash or tobacco. It is advisable to do this after rain, so that the dust lingers on the leaves longer, carefully process the underside of the leaves and all young shoots.

Preventive methods are usually time-consuming, but they can really rid the currants of aphids, and the owners do not have to deal with pests, risking the harvest or even their health.

How to deal with aphids on currants

First, decide how you will deal with aphids, that is, with the help of folk remedies or bio and chemical. drugs. If this is the first option, then you have to be patient, since you will have to process the currants more than once. But it seems to be environmentally friendly. The second option is the destruction of aphids with special preparations that will destroy the aphids in 1 application and protect the plant from further attack by the pest. These drugs usually work for at least 30 days. Of course, this is chemistry, but if you follow the instructions for use, then harm to humans is minimized, since a waiting period is indicated for all drugs, that is, after how many days currants can be eaten without fear for their health. As a prophylaxis against aphids on currants, it is advisable to plant around the bushes those plants that scare away this pest: marigolds, calendula, garlic, dill, parsley, basil, mint, coriander, tansy, yarrow. Maybe this will not help 100%, but in any case, the number of the pest will be much less.

Folk remedies for the prevention and control of aphids on currants

Wood ash. Preparation and dosage:

• 200 - 300 g. Pour 1 liter. boiling water;
• insist until it cools completely;
• bring the filtered solution to 10 liters, add crushed laundry soap.

Wood ash + tobacco. Preparation and dosage:

• 400 g of dry tobacco leaves;
• 400 g of ash;
• 10 l. water.

Insist for a day. Strain before use.

Celandine. Preparation and dosage:

Pour 3.5 kg of ground leaves and stems with 10 liters of water, for 18 - 24 hours.

Onion peel. Preparation and dosage

• 200 g per 10 l of water, hold for 3-4 days

Soda ash + laundry soap. Preparation and dosage:

• 1 tablespoon to 1 liter of water.

The advantage of infusions and solutions is that they are safe for humans and environment... They are easy to make from plants and available materials... Perhaps some gardeners will argue that the work of harvesting raw materials and obtaining solutions takes a long time. But the systematic use of ecological products does not harm health, ensures the quality of the fruit, and does not pollute the atmosphere.

True, with some plants you need to be on the alert, for example, celandine juice is poisonous and you need to work with it with rubber gloves. The disadvantage of homemade remedies is considered to be a "mild" effect on pests. That is why it is better to use them for prevention or in initial stage infection.

Fighting aphids on currants: treating bushes with chemicals

To get rid of gall aphid colonies on currants, chemicals that need to be applied in several stages will help. It is necessary to use chemicals only in advanced cases and massive attacks of pests.

1. The first spraying of currants is carried out in the spring, at the time of budding.
2. The second time it is necessary to carry out the processing when the shrub is flowering.
3. It is better to spray the currants for the third time immediately after flowering.
4. The last treatment should be carried out only after complete harvest.

How to treat currants from gall aphids?

For treatments, chemicals are used that are dissolved in water. The following drugs have proven themselves well:

• Actellik (diluted with 15 ml per 10 liters of water);
• Novaktion (diluted with 5 ml per 10 liters of water).

Pest control garden plants plays an important role. It prevents insects such as aphids from damaging shrubs and trees. On the currant, her eggs are located at the buds, and as soon as the plant goes after hibernation in growth, they become active and begin to settle throughout the bush.

The petioles and leaves damaged by them are twisted into tubes. The danger from such a small insect is that if measures are not taken in time, it will quickly take over the entire plant and cannot be saved. To prevent the death of currants, it is necessary to use special means at the beginning of summer, you can not spend money on purchased drugs, but use the folk recipes described below.

Home solutions

Although these agents are safe for humans, in high concentration they affect the leaves of the plant as strong chemicals and can cause them burns, as well as pose a danger to other beneficial insects. Based on this warning, you must strictly follow the proportions indicated in the formulations. Why aphids appear on currants and apple trees, and how this problem can be dealt with is described in great detail in this

Soap solution

Before using it, you need to rinse the plant well under a stream. cold water or wipe its leaves and branches with a cotton swab dipped in ordinary water.

The solution is prepared from laundry soap, in order to prepare it, 300 grams of detergent is rubbed on a grater and then diluted in a bucket of water. A more advanced solution is prepared from ash and soap. 300 grams of ash is added to a bucket of water, then it is put on the fire, and they are waiting for the mixture to boil, then 50 grams of crushed soap is added to it. But how effective it is, and how to use it correctly. set out in the article at the link.

One of these solutions is used to choose from when growing organic products, their processing is carried out in the evening. It is possible after the rain, but in no case in front of it, otherwise the efforts will be in vain.

When processing, special attention is paid to the inside of the leaves, where aphids usually settle. Soap spraying is repeated after a week, but if the remedy does not help even after that, then you cannot do without strong drugs.

Yarrow solution

Dried stems and leaves plucked at the time of flowering of the plant will help from aphids. To process several currant bushes, you need to take 1 kg of dried raw materials, pour boiling water and leave in a water bath to languish for half an hour.

After that, water is added to the resulting solution to make a total of 10 liters of the remedy. In such an amount, it must still be insisted in a dark place for two days. But what are the folk remedies for kidney mites on currants, and which of them are the most effective, indicated

Tomato solution

To prepare it, you need to take 5 kg of tomato and pour boiling water over the fruits, then boil them for 30 minutes. The resulting solution is filtered, soap is added to the tomatoes, they should be cooked on fire for 30 minutes. Water is added to the resulting mixture to make a volume of 10 liters.

Pepper solution

You need to prepare 100 grams of fresh capsicum, pour 1 liter of water and boil in a sealed container.

Tobacco solution

In five liters of water, you need to add 200 grams of crushed and dried tobacco leaves, after simmering the mixture on fire for 2 hours, you need to bring the solution to 10 liters.

Herbal infusions

Before using them, it is necessary to check their action on a small area or on one bush, if the selected infusion is really effective, then it can be used for the remaining currants. Its processing is carried out before flowering and after picking berries.

Potato infusion

Onion infusion

This vegetable is crushed without peeling it. From the prepared onion gruel, 200 grams are taken and poured with 10 liters of water. The mixture is infused for a day, and then it can be sprayed with currants.

Chamomile infusion

For one bucket of water, you need to collect 1 kg pharmacy chamomile... It is insisted for half a day, after which it is filtered. Before processing the plants, the solution is diluted with water, observing the proportions of 1 part of the mixture to 3 parts of the liquid. To enhance the effect, you can add another 50 grams of laundry soap.

Garlic infusions

There are many recipes with this vegetable against aphids, here are the most popular ones.

№1

Grind several heads of garlic so that 200 grams come out of them, to which 1 liter of water is added. The mixture is infused under the lid for five days. Currant bushes are sprayed with it. To prepare a solution of the desired consistency, dilute 25 ml of tincture in 10 liters of water.

№2

The recipe uses garlic arrows. A glass of crushed arrows is poured with a liter of water. The infusion is left for five days in a dark place. After that, when spraying, it is diluted with water, in proportions: 25 ml per bucket of liquid.

In the video - garlic infusions from aphids:

Dandelion infusion

From aphids, the entire plant is applied without residue, together with the roots. It is collected during the flowering period, you need to prepare 600 grams of grass and cut it, then pour 10 liters of water, the components of the recipe after mixing are infused for three hours.

Horse sorrel infusion

It is necessary to pour 400 grams of this herb in a crushed form with ten liters of boiling water, and then insist as long as possible before spraying.

Infusion of marigolds

Their flowers are an excellent remedy for aphids. To prepare this infusion, you need to grind half a kilogram of flowers, you can simply separate them with your hands, add 1 liter of water to them, and leave for two days. After settling, the product is filtered.

Alder infusion

It is necessary to insist for one day 1 kg of alder leaves in 5 liters of ordinary water, and then boil them for half an hour, leave to settle a little and spray the plants.

Infusions of tansy, thyme and rhubarb are also effective against harmful insects.

Homemade products against aphids

Regular food can sometimes save whole shrubs if you know how to use it correctly:

• Take milk and drip a few drops of iodine into it and spray the currants with them until flowering.
• Ordinary vodka is the cheapest, it is poured into a spray bottle and the bushes are treated.
• Cream with essential oils - this tandem is also great for removing aphids. Add 10-15 drops of essential oil of tea tree, lavender or cedar to your choice in 100 ml of cream. 2 liters of water are added to the resulting composition. The bushes are sprayed with this tool three times.
• Coca-Cola is used as easy as shelling pears plastic bottle, in which she is put on a sprayer, and each shrub is sprayed with it in turn. This drink contains phosphoric acid, which the aphid is afraid of.

Plants from aphids

Garden crops can also resist these insects if they are planted near currants. Some flowers attract aphids to them, and thus distract them from fruit trees and shrubs, such plants include: mallow, some types of legumes, kosmeya, nasturtium and begonia.

Begonia in the garden

Other plants repel these insects, including marigolds, garlic, mint, coriander, onions, and a number of odorous herbs. But linden and viburnum, on the contrary, attract aphids, they cannot be planted next to currants.

It is possible to reduce the number of aphids by regularly cleaning the area with currants from weeds and tops on trees on which aphids could lay their eggs in winter period... You may also be interested in information on how it is used

Prophylaxis

It is much easier to prevent the appearance of aphids than to deal with it later, the following measures will help in this:

After spraying, currant berries can be eaten only after a week and a half, not earlier. Although all the compositions described are safe, they can still cause poisoning, especially if someone is used to eating unwashed berries. Spraying is done twice a season, but in severe cases, in order to save the plant, it is allowed to use the solutions more times.