Spraying plants with milk. Summer resident assistants from a regular grocery store. What time to fertilize

I can assume that many will be surprised, but milk can really be used not only as a tasty product that is useful for our body, but also as a drink that brings great benefits to plants!

Why is milk useful?

Almost everyone knows how milk is useful for a person. Milk is a wonderful balanced complex useful substances. These same substances help plants develop. Among them: calcium, potassium, magnesium, manganese, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, copper, iron and others.

But milk has some other interesting features.

Firstly, milk sugar, lactose, is not digested by almost all insects, because they simply do not have a pancreas. Due to this, milk sprays and top dressings create a barrier to many pests.

Secondly, when plants are sprayed with milk solutions, milk creates a thin film on the leaves that prevents the penetration of pathogens.

In addition, milk contributes to the "metabolism" in the plant body, that is, it helps to assimilate other useful substances that are in the soil or applied as top dressing.

How to use milk in the garden?

Dairy solutions are used as:

- top dressing;

- for spraying plants in order to protect against diseases and pests.

Also, milk is a very valuable component of compost, due to the fact that it saturates it with useful substances, enhances microbiological activity, and protects against unwanted insects.

What to feed and spray with milk?

Dairy supplements are very much appreciated by summer residents who grow horticultural crops. Potassium, which is very rich in milk, is vital for these plants during the period of fruit formation.

Spraying with a milky-iodine solution is very good for seedlings of tomatoes and peppers. They perfectly nourish and protect against many diseases and pests.

Dairy top dressings are very fond of and houseplants. Everything except succulents (cacti, etc.). For them, such feeding can be fatal.

What kind of milk to use?

Certainly, the best way is raw milk that has not been subjected to heat treatment. Pasteurized or sterilized milk can also be used, however, it is worth remembering that most of the vitamins and other beneficial substances are destroyed during heat treatment.

Recipes for dressings and solutions for spraying.

Pure milk should not be used. This can be very damaging to plants!

In horticulture and horticulture, milk and milk-iodine solutions are mainly used. The ideal ratio can be considered a solution: water / milk = 4/1 or 5/1.

To prepare a milk-iodine solution, the proportions are the same: per liter of milk - 4 liters of water, plus add 15 drops of iodine.

Also read our articles about other non-standard natural fertilizers.

Rapidly growing plants require not only watering, but also top dressing. Many gardeners try to do without “chemistry” on their hundred square meters, using only organic fertilizers and feeds.

One of my acquaintances, a great lover and connoisseur of tomatoes, said that he regularly treats them with ... milk. Dilute 1 liter of milk in 10 liters of water, then add a ladle under each bush. Such a solution can be watered with bushes from a watering can: it turns out that even phytophthora is afraid of milk.

...Cucumbers - bread

They love milk and cucumbers. And they, like tomatoes, love sourdough from old bread. Therefore, do not throw away stale moldy bread, bring it to the garden. It is easy to prepare the most valuable top dressing from it. Put old dried bread in a barrel or bucket, dilute with water and leave for a few days. The bread will not only get wet, but, having turned sour, will ferment. Top dressing is ready, you can make it under the root.

By the way, about root feeding. Cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins and zucchini should not be watered directly under the root. It is necessary to make a circular ditch 8-10 cm from it and direct the stream of water only there. And the roots themselves will find moisture.If, nevertheless, you looked, and the cucumbers developed a disease called " gray rot"(we are talking about the root), rake the ground a little, treat the sore spots with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, let it dry and sprinkle with ashes. When you are sure that the plant has recovered, cover the root with earth again.

Alexandra Ermolenko,

Krasnodar region, Armavir

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It turns out that in the grocery department regular store or a supermarket, there are quite a few useful products for pest and plant disease control, preparation of top dressings and bio-infusions. Some gardeners have long and successfully used kefir, milk, whey, salt, soda, yeast, mustard powder and something else for agricultural purposes. Now let's find out why...

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Without baking soda it's really hard to imagine modern vegetable garden. She seems to help everywhere and everywhere. If you are growing on your suburban area grapes, then do not forget to spray the vine with a solution of soda during the ripening period of the berries - 75 grams per 10 liters of water. This procedure protects the grapes from gray rot, and also increases the sugar content in the berries. Everything can be sprayed with the same solution. fruit trees to combat leaf-eating caterpillars.

soda is one of effective means against powdery mildew. A solution of a teaspoon of soda in a liter of water is used for preventive spraying of cucumbers. Gooseberries and currants are treated with a complex remedy: 1 tbsp. soda, 1 aspirin tablet, 1 tsp. dishwashing liquid or liquid soap, 1 tbsp. vegetable oil for 4.5 liters of water. A solution of soda (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water) is poured over cucumbers to prevent premature yellowing leaves. To ward off caterpillars, many gardeners sprinkle cabbage leaves with baking soda.

It is unlikely that there will be a cottage where currant bushes would not grow. True, the harvest often leaves much to be desired. Some amateur gardeners are sure that a jar of berries from a bush to the table is a good return. In fact, these plants can be collected in a bucket. and even several buckets! To get solid yields from it, you need:

• Don't forget to water. Of course, it is necessary to take into account climatic conditions season. But do not miss the three necessary waterings. The first - at the end of flowering (approximately the first decade of June). The second - during the growth of the ovaries (the third decade of June). The third - during the ripening of berries. The water consumption rate is 4 buckets per bush.
• Feed promptly. Black currants require four feedings per season. First - as soon as the buds have blossomed: 2 tablespoons ammonium nitrate for 10 liters of water. Consumption rate - 1 bucket per bush. The second - in mid-June: 1 tablespoon of urea, 1.5 tbsp. superphosphate and 0.5 tbsp. spoons of potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water. Consumption rate - 1 bucket per bush. The third - in late September - early October: 0.5 cups of superphosphate and 2/3 cups of potassium sulfate per 1 bush. Fourth - at the end of October: 0.5 buckets of rotted manure under a bush.
• Cut off excess branches. Most of the fruits black currant matures on two-year and three-year-old shoots. Older give give less berries. Therefore, plants must be formed in such a way that 3-4 annual shoots remain on the bush annually. And all that are older than 6 years must be cut out. This is best done in the fall, when the leaves have fallen from the plant.
• Spray with honey solution during flowering. Currants are pollinated by bees. And to attract more of them, the plants must be sprinkled with sweet water: 1 tbsp. dissolve a spoonful of honey in 1 liter. water and sprinkle the bushes.

Fertilizing in the spring - ash, in a liter jar, on moist soil, along the perimeter of the crown, 1 tablespoon of urea and 2 tablespoons of chloride-free potassium (when fertilizing with potassium chloride, it will shed leaves) per 10 liters of water (at least 3-4 buckets per plant) . Can be replaced with potassium nitrate (2 tablespoons).

During the intensive growth of the ovaries, it should be sprayed over the leaves with a solution of trace elements. In addition, one more liter jar of ash is needed to build up the bone.

In mid-August - 2 tablespoons of double granular superphosphate and 1 tablespoon of potassium per 10 liters of water (at least 4 buckets) and again a liter jar of ash. Liter jar ash can be replaced with 1 cup of dolomite.

Late in the fall, after dropping the leaves, you can add a couple of buckets of organic matter or pour feces on it, like an apricot.

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All summer you can fight cabbage pests, especially fleas. What they didn’t “drive away” it: wormwood, onions, garlic, ash, tobacco. All in vain! Nothing could save the cabbage, and by the autumn it grew so-so, somehow defective. We began to look for different means, as others save cabbage. Once they read how a woman keeps her cabbage. She said that she sprayed the cabbage with 70% table vinegar: one spoon per 10 liters of water. We immediately stirred the vinegar and processed the cabbage. Radish, horseradish, radish and sorrel, swede, turnip were sprayed with the same solution. And what about fleas? How the wind blew it. Now we know this is the right remedy. Vinegar is diluted for a short time. After spraying, we noticed that white butterflies are afraid to sit on cabbage, and we no longer notice aphids there.

I dilute one pack of dry mustard in a bucket of water, add 100 ml. table 9% vinegar, mix thoroughly and spray the potato tops with this mixture. There are no bugs!

In 10 liters of water (not a metal bucket), drip 15 drops of iodine, stir with a wooden stick and water under each bush, after moistening the soil (after rain or after good watering). At the same time, try not to get the iodine solution on the leaves. This is especially successful after cutting strawberries. As a rule, after such treatment, the beetles do not visit this territory for two years.

Before planting strawberries, treat the entire future plantation well with such a solution. Today they watered, and in three or four days you can safely plant. Then there will be no root burns in case of an iodine overdose. I just want to warn you: everything is like with people - do not exceed the dose!

If you have ever tried to get rid of horseradish that has grown in the wrong place, then you know how difficult it is: no matter how much you dig it up, the roots continue to live and grow. To defeat horseradish, you need to cut off its leaves and cover the place of the cut with salt. Fruit trees before bud break, spray with strong brine, to prevent fungal diseases. Half a glass of salt is dissolved in a bucket of water and spilled once a season onion for the prevention of powdery mildew and for the destruction onion fly. He loves top dressing with saline beets. She is fed twice: at the stage of 4-5 true leaves and a month before harvesting. Top dressing is prepared very simply: 100 grams of salt dissolves in 10 liters of water.

Mustard is not favored by many garden pests, so stock up on mustard powder, summer residents. Especially if you are against pesticides and with two hands for organic vegetables and fruits.

Firstly, mustard helps in the difficult fight against slugs. The powder is scattered between plants at the first sign of this unbearable pest: on cabbage, peppers, hosts, etc.

Secondly, mustard powder is one of the components of the infusion against cabbage aphids. Thirdly, mustard infusion works great against moths, sawflies, bedbugs, thrips, aphids, codling moth and other leaf-eating caterpillars. For its preparation 100 grams mustard powder pour 10 liters of water and insist two days. Then filter, dilute with water 50:50 and add 40 grams of soap to each bucket for better adhesion. Apple trees are recommended to be sprayed with this infusion 15-20 days after flowering, and berry bushes- at the beginning of summer.

Kefir and others dairy products are used, as a rule, for the prevention and control of pathogenic fungal diseases. Lactic acid bacteria and fungi suppress competitors, but do not harm plants themselves. Kefir is sprayed on cucumber leaves to stop them from turning yellow. To do this, two liters of kefir are diluted in a bucket of water. With the help of kefir, you can get rid of powdery mildew on gooseberries. Among the components of the recipe for self-preparation of EM infusion, kefir was also noticed. To prevent late blight, you can spray tomato seedlings with the following solution: half a liter of kefir, 1 glass of Pepsi or Coca-Cola per 10 liters of water. And from the first days of July, adult tomatoes are sprayed with a solution of kefir in half with water. A liter of kefir diluted in a bucket of water is also excellent top dressing both for seedlings of tomatoes, and for adult plants. In all of the above recipes, kefir can be replaced with whey.

Yeast is an excellent growth stimulant for plants. They are rich in nutrients in themselves, they improve soil microflora, they suppress the development of many pathogens - in general, they are good. The most popular use of yeast in the garden is top dressing. Yeast top dressing will appeal to all cultures.

Its recipe is as follows: a kilogram of pressed yeast is diluted in five liters warm water, then immediately before use, the solution is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10. You can prepare yeast top dressing from dry yeast. To do this, 10 grams of yeast and a couple of tablespoons of sugar are dissolved in 10 liters of water. This "dough" is kept for 2 hours, and then diluted with water 1:5.

For nightshade, it is also recommended to prepare a special top dressing with sugar. For three liters of water, take 100 grams of yeast and half a glass of sugar, all this ferments for a week, and then diluted with water: 1 glass of “mash” per bucket. They feed tomatoes, peppers, eggplants or potatoes, pouring a liter of solution under each bush.

Yeast top dressing is useful for watering seedlings. It will grow “by leaps and bounds”, it will not stretch out, it will easily take root in the new earth when picking. If you pour strawberries with yeast diluted in water (100 grams per 10 liters) before flowering, the berry will not get gray rot. Tomatoes are sprayed with the same solution when the first signs of phytophthora appear or for its prevention.

Yeast is used in the preparation of EM preparations, "nutritional mash" and other bio-infusions useful for the garden. What should always be remembered when using yeast in the garden? First. Like all microorganisms (and yeast is fungi, as we were taught in school), yeast will not actively work in the cold season. Therefore, all top dressing is best done in the spring, when the soil has already warmed up. Second. Yeast absorbs potassium during its life cycle, so be sure to compensate for the "loss" by adding ash. As a rule, plants are fed with yeast a maximum of three times per season. No more required.

Downy mildew on cucumbers can be eliminated by spraying the leaves with a solution of nine liters of water, a liter of skimmed milk and 10-12 drops of iodine. Mix of 20 grams laundry soap, a liter of milk and 30 drops of iodine per 10 liters of water will help prevent premature yellowing of cucumber leaves.

As mentioned above, Coca-Cola or Pepsi, along with kefir, is used to spray tomato seedlings. On Coca-Cola, poured into shallow containers dug into the ground next to the plants, slugs crawl like bait. And some gardeners claim that spraying with cola saves plants from aphids. We hope the aids from the grocery store, hardware store, and pharmacy will serve you good service in the garden and eliminate the need to apply "poison" where you can do without it. We wish you success and great harvests!

Chemical fertilizers are controversial. They enrich the soil with useful elements, but at the same time unnecessary and even harmful substances fall into the fruits of labor used for food. hosts household plots gradually turn their eyes towards naturalness, but where to find the means, the effectiveness of which is comparable to modern chemistry? Surprisingly, familiar milk will help grow the crop of your dreams. Let's figure out how to do it.

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A lot has been said and written about the benefits of milk. This is a full-fledged cocktail of life that every person drinks, especially in childhood. It turns out that they will not give up milk and plants. Gardeners claim that it easily replaces expensive and harmful chemical fertilizers.

Milk - natural product. This fact excludes the receipt of a crop that is harmful to health. Since every person wants to eat organic food, the popularity of milk, which plays the role of fertilizer, is growing year by year.

In fact, the role of milk is much richer:

• to feed the beds you just need to water. It is desirable to take unprocessed milk (sterilized, pasteurized). Ideally, if from your own cow;
• pest protection. If you treat the plants with milk, it will not drain completely from the leaves, but leave thin film. For plants, it is harmless, but insects do not tolerate lactose;
• resistance to disease. The protection given by milk also acts on harmful microorganisms;
• fluid treatment enhances digestibility useful elements from traditional fertilizers.

How to apply

Top dressing during watering can be carried out in two ways. For each per liter white drink take five liters clean water. Then you can simply water the plants under the roots or make a recess around the circumference at a short distance from the trunk and pour the composition into it. This will provide easy access to nutrients to the roots. If you choose to water with rain, you get additional protection from pests and diseases.

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Spraying is a popular method of controlling powdery mildew. Excellent preventive measure helps prevent the onset and development of the disease. Work is carried out for the first time after the appearance of young leaves, then repeated every two to three weeks.

The processing mixture is easy to prepare. For 10 liters of water take:

• a liter of milk with a minimum fat content;
• 20 - 30 drops of iodine;
• half a bar of laundry soap (should be grated).

Important! If the work involves getting the composition on the leaves and stems of plants, choose cloudy weather or evening (make sure that it will not rain), otherwise you risk causing sunburn.

How to cook

Gardeners love to prepare compositions from many components. This enhances the action of each and increases the severity of beneficial effects. If desired, milk can be replaced with whey. But this is not very convenient, because it is more difficult to find it on sale.

Useful solution options:

1. Having diluted milk in water, be sure not to be lazy and add iodine. Just a few drops will give the solution disinfectant properties, help not only protect against diseases, but also cure.
2. Whey can contribute to the maturation of the compost. The liquid is taken with water in equal proportions (0.5 liters each), a pack of dry yeast is added to this volume.

You can prepare a composition that increases soil fertility. For work, you need a large barrel. They put it in (jewelry precision is not needed, take it by eye, approximate proportions are given):

• ash, compost, sand - by shovel;
• half a bucket of matured manure;
• a bucket of humus (also watch the quality);
• a liter of milk;
• water to keep everything moist.

Prepare a solution of yeast in sweet water in advance (take about 3 - 4 liters). Let it brew for a couple of days, pour it into a barrel and mix the ingredients. The tool will be ready in a week.

What crops are suitable for

It is important to understand that milk is not universal fertilizer. Individual plants react sharply negatively to it. For example, the growth of peppers slows down, instead of large vegetables, very miniature ones are obtained, more like chili. And it's still in best case most of the time, the plant simply dies.