What to do if someone eats tomatoes. Who eats tomatoes in the greenhouse? What caterpillars eat tomatoes in a greenhouse
Kira Stoletova
Caterpillars on tomatoes eat the leaves, depriving the fruits of the necessary shade. They are also able to eat eggplants, bell peppers, cabbages of different varieties and crops growing nearby. Consider how to get rid of caterpillars on tomatoes and what drugs are effective in combating them.
Prevention of caterpillars on tomatoes
Usually, cotton bollworm appears on tomatoes in a greenhouse. It damages various crops: corn, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, pepper. The cotton bollworm butterfly leads a hidden lifestyle, appears at dusk. In appearance, it resembles a large moth with a wingspan of up to 3 cm. Cotton moth caterpillars can have different colors - brownish-green, dirty purple, etc. and have dimensions up to 4-5 cm. If a cotton scoop has appeared in the greenhouse, you should immediately start fighting it. In the greenhouse, the insect appears through the window. To prevent this from happening, mosquito nets are installed on the doors and windows. This method of struggle helps to prevent the appearance of caterpillars on tomatoes in the greenhouse.
Precautions to help avoid pests:
- getting rid of weeds;
- tillage with a solution of potassium permanganate before planting tomatoes;
- checking the greenhouse for pests, treating seedlings with chemicals and from time to time;
- spraying at least once a week so that new eggs do not appear in case of infection;
- spraying with biological substances;
- getting rid of all remnants of vegetation after picking tomatoes;
- replacement of the top layer of soil by 15 cm at the end of the season (scoopworm larvae hibernate in the soil).
Tomato processing chemicals
The most effective method of dealing with caterpillars on tomatoes in a greenhouse is to treat plants with chemicals. These substances are removed from the fruit for a month.
To deal with caterpillar pesticides, you should focus on the instructions for this substance, since an excessive amount of them in tomatoes can cause serious poisoning. Consider the most effective means:
Among other effective poisons that help fight caterpillars on tomatoes, Aktara, Iskra, Mospilan, and Admiral stand out. Over time, the caterpillar, located on tomatoes treated with these pesticides, develops immunity. After that, the drug should be changed.
Tatyana Orlova (Candidate of Agricultural Sciences):
In order not to overlook the appearance of pest insect butterflies, as well as to catch them, you can use glue traps. All insects are attracted to yellow. Gardening stores currently sell these yellow glue traps. You can make them yourself. A sheet of yellow paper is glued onto the cardboard, which is smeared with non-drying glue. Several of these traps are hung in the greenhouse. The appearance of butterflies adhering to the traps signals that it is necessary to spray the tomatoes in the greenhouse with insecticide preparations.
Folk ways to get rid of scoops
If the caterpillars eat tomatoes, but there is no finance for the purchase of chemicals, you can use folk methods of struggle. Among them are called:
- soap solution;
- decoction of wormwood;
- decoction of tobacco dust;
- lather;
- very cold water, etc.
Caterpillars on tomatoes in a greenhouse do not like the smell of garlic, so all seedling sprouts must be treated with infusion with the addition of garlic. To prepare it, you should take a bunch of garlic arrows and mix with boiling water in a 3-liter container. All this should be insisted for 3 days.
Caterpillars are an intermediate form in the life cycle of butterflies. Flying insects lay eggs, caterpillars emerge from the eggs, then they pupate and turn into a new generation of butterflies. During the summer season, several generations of pests emerge.
The most voracious of them are caterpillars, they eat leaves, shoots and fruits of tomatoes. Whiteflies and cutworms lay their eggs on tomato bushes growing outdoors. Butterflies enter greenhouses through open doors and windows during ventilation.
The appearance of pests and the danger threatening them
The main pests for tomatoes, both in open areas and in greenhouses, are caterpillars of cutworms and whiteflies. It's hard to fight them if you don't know what they look like.
scoops
Description:
- an adult - the size with open wings is from 2.5 to 5 cm, the color of the body is grayish-brown, on the wings there is a pattern with randomly arranged stripes, strokes, zigzags;
- eggs - hemispherical, rounded above, flatter below, surface structure ribbed or cellular, small in size (up to 1 mm);
- caterpillars - the naked body is covered with bristles, individuals are painted in dull colors: brown, gray or yellow-green, grow up to 5 cm in length;
- pupa is completely closed.
Scoop eggs ripen quickly, depending on the weather from 2 to 10 days. Caterpillars develop within 15-20 days, during which they manage to harm tomato seedlings, eating everything in a row: leaves, stems, fruits.
whiteflies
In appearance, these butterflies resemble small midges, which take off in small clouds over tomato bushes with a slight touch. The size of an adult is 2-3 mm, the body color is white, there is a whitish fluff on the wings. Habitat - the back side of the leaves of tomatoes. Whiteflies suck the sap from the plant. The leaf plate is covered with a white coating, curls and dries.
Butterflies lay their eggs on different parts of the plant, larvae appear from them, initially mobile, but eventually stop moving and stick to the leaves, gradually eating them completely. These insects are also dangerous because they carry spores of fungal diseases on their bodies, which, if they enter a cultivated plant, can destroy it.
Reasons for appearance on tomatoes
Larvae and caterpillars of pests, having completed their life cycle, go into the soil to a depth of 10-25 cm, where they turn into butterflies. A new stage in the development of insects begins - butterflies laying eggs on tomatoes. Pests enter greenhouses through ventilation holes: open doors, transoms, hoods. They are activated in a humid and warm climate, typical for greenhouses.
Attention!
During the day it is very difficult to detect pests, they are nocturnal, during the day the butterflies hide under the leaves or in the soil. It is possible to determine that insects exist on tomato bushes by the characteristic signs of their presence.
Signs and symptoms
Recognize the presence of pests on tomatoes by the following features:
- scoop caterpillars gnaw holes in fruits and eat the internal content of tomatoes, small holes appear in tomatoes, the edges of which gradually expand and rot;
- larvae and adult whitefly insects suck juices from tomato leaves, leaving a white coating on them, similar to a fungal disease, as a result, the leaves curl, wither and dry out. In the future, fruits and ovaries are covered with a whitish coating, which stop growing and rot, such tomatoes are no longer suitable for food.
The crop will completely die if urgent measures are not taken to destroy the pests. Such methods exist and are successfully used by gardeners.
Protection of tomatoes from caterpillars
Flying insects and their voracious caterpillars cause significant damage to tomato beds in greenhouses. Humid and warm microclimate indoors creates the prerequisites for the rapid reproduction and development of pests. Gardeners fight them by treating plants with chemicals. Gardeners who do not accept the use of pesticides in their territories achieve the complete destruction and repelling of winged and crawling insects by folk remedies and methods.
Methods and recipes from the people
| Recipes | Ingredients | Cooking | Usage |
| Infusion of garlic | Garlic whole head or 200 g shooters Water 1 liter |
Grind all the ingredients and pour boiling water, leave for 3 days, add ½ cup of infusion and 50 g of laundry soap in 10 liters of water before use | Processing of tomatoes in the greenhouse is carried out several times at intervals of 7-10 days |
| A decoction of wormwood | Water 10 liters Fresh herbs of wormwood 500 g |
Wormwood is poured with water, brought to a boil and boiled for 30 minutes, kept under a lid for 2 days, filtered. Before use, dilute the decoction with water 1:10 and add 1/3 of a bar of soap | Spray tomato bushes 2-3 times a month |
| Infusion of tobacco | Tobacco dust 300 g Water 7-10 liters |
Fine tobacco is poured into boiling water, stirred, infused for 1 day, filtered, soap added | Tomato bushes are sprayed from a hand sprayer, trying to get on the back of the leaves. Processing should be carried out until the pests completely disappear. |
| Salt solution | Water 10 liters | Salt is dissolved in water, after 30 minutes the solution is filtered | Use a saline solution no more than 1 time per month with a large accumulation of caterpillars and larvae on tomato bushes |
| Infusion of potato tops | Potato fresh stalks 1 kg | The tops are poured with boiling water and insisted for a day, filtered, add 50 g of liquid or grated soap | Tomato bushes are watered from above, then they pass with a broom and lightly shake off the solution from the bushes so that it gets on the inside of the leaves, it is necessary to carry out the treatment until the pests are completely destroyed |
Whiteflies and scoops are sensitive to odors, planting green manure plants among tomato bushes helps to scare them away: garlic, celery, coriander. Butterflies will leave the greenhouse, they will look for a more suitable place for laying eggs, and caterpillars will gradually die from exposure to infusions and solutions.
Attention!
During the flowering period of cultivated plants, treatments should be carried out carefully, there is a risk of scaring off beneficial insects that pollinate tomatoes. In greenhouses, they are much less than pests. Take care of these workers.
Prevention
Before the onset of winter, caterpillars go into the soil, pupate and mummify until spring. Whiteflies and scoops hibernate at a depth of 10 to 25 cm, in order to protect tomatoes from their invasion next season, you need:
- In autumn, beds freed from tomato bushes, dig to a depth of at least 30 cm (shovel bayonet), turning over and not breaking clods of earth. Pupated caterpillars that are on top will die from the cold in winter.
- In early spring, pour the soil under the tomatoes with hot water with the addition of soda or potassium permanganate. Pupae of pests, if they are preserved, will die under the action of heat treatment.
- Before planting tomato seedlings in a greenhouse, white mustard seeds can be sown on the beds (for 2 months). Immediately before planting tomatoes, dig the beds together with mustard seedlings, and then spray the seedlings with a weak solution of dry powder.
Preserving the harvest, not giving it to the insatiable caterpillars is the primary task of gardeners. Preventive measures using folk remedies are effective in such cases, do not harm either the person or the environment.
Vera, 38 years old, Kineshma
Green caterpillars have appeared in my greenhouse, they eat everything: tomatoes, eggplants, peppers. I found out that this scoop laid eggs, I decided to find out how to deal with them without chemistry. Here's what I dug up: you need to decompose or sprinkle strong-smelling substances on the beds with tomatoes: tobacco, garlic arrows, wormwood. And so she did, a week later there was no trace of the scoop. I removed the caterpillars that I saw by hand, which was not difficult, my greenhouse is medium in size.
Nikolay, 49 years old, Voznesensk
Last summer, my tomatoes were almost completely damaged by a scoop and its caterpillars, so in the fall I did a major cleaning of the greenhouse, disinfected and dug up the ground, sprayed the walls and ceiling with a strong soda solution. In early spring, in March, he poured hot water over the soil and dug it up again, carefully removing visible pest pupae. Now everything is fine, scoops, and other insects, are no more.
Victoria, 28 years old, Ivanovo
I am a beginner gardener, I don’t know all the tricks of gardening, but I prefer to fight pests only with folk remedies, and even with my own labor. I often weed beds with tomatoes, remove weeds, loosen the ground. I plant the bushes away from each other, cut off the excess foliage so that the plantings do not thicken.
Eggplants, like tomatoes, prefer to grow in dry air and moderately moist soil, and they, like tomatoes, are susceptible to late blight, and therefore grow well with tomatoes in the same bed. But unlike a tomato, which is phosphorus-loving, eggplant is nitrogen-loving, so when planting it in a hole, it is useful to add 1 tablespoon of azofoska or a similar fertilizer, but not a purely nitrogen mineral fertilizer (say, urea). The fact is that an excess of nitrogen before the setting of the first fruit in all nightshade crops causes the drop of flowers and even young ovaries. Therefore, it is better to feed the eggplant with organic matter after it sets and slightly grows its first fruit.
Eggplant, being a dietary product, can itself be on a diet, so it does not really need to be fed at all, provided that the soil is fertile enough. Top dressing at the beginning of the intensive growth of the first fruit is better to do organic watering and add ash.
Planting peppers in a greenhouse - with cucumbers or tomatoes
Pepper is very different from its relatives, although it is a nightshade crop. First of all, pepper is potassium-loving. So, when planting seedlings of pepper, 1 tablespoon of any potash fertilizer that does not contain chlorine should be added to the hole. At worst, add 1 tablespoon with a small top of ash, or even better - 1 teaspoon of powder fraction of AVA fertilizer, then all summer the pepper will do without mineral top dressing at all.
With a lack of light, pepper seedlings do not stretch (although they suffer from a lack of light), pepper wanted to spit on late blight, but is susceptible to attack by aphids and slugs. And it does not tolerate the slightest drying of the topsoil. Since its compact root system does not grow either deep or wide, its sucking hairs are shallow and dry out easily, and therefore die even with a slight drying of the topsoil.
To protect the pepper from this, you must first of all mulch it with green organics, but there is a nuance here. The root neck of the pepper is prone to decay, and therefore it is not buried in the soil during transplantation. But after all, if it is mulched with green grass, then it will cause the neck to warm up. To prevent this from happening, before mulching it, sprinkle dry sand around the base of the stem so that the mulch does not come into contact with the bottom of the stem.
If you plant pepper seedlings on a hydrogel, and even mulch the soil under it with green organic matter, then you will water it once every 3-4 weeks, especially if you grow pepper together with tomatoes (by the way, in this case it will not be attacked by aphids ). However, he loves cucumbers more - primarily because he tolerates moist air well and he likes moist soil. Since the green mulch will conserve soil moisture, and watering the cucumbers from time to time will fall under the peppers, this will not hurt them either.
Growing pepper in a greenhouse: how to get rid of aphids
There is one “but”: when planting pepper along with cucumbers, aphids can attack it, especially at the end of summer. If you have the drug "Healthy Garden", then it is easy to deal with it. Shake until completely dissolved 6-8 grains of "Healthy Garden" in 100 ml of water and add another 900 ml to make 1 liter of solution. Spray pepper in the evening (or any other crop if aphids attack it), and that's it. Aphids will disappear in a day and will not appear again, at least in the next 4-5 weeks.
There is another biological product - "Fitoverm" (or "Iskra-bio"), after spraying the leaves with which, after two hours, any sucking and chewing insect stops eating and dies of starvation after a couple of days. Plants absorb this drug and, functioning in the cell sap, it holds the defense against almost all sucking and gnawing pests for three weeks, except for slugs and snails. After using this drug, all sprayed vegetables or herbs can be eaten after 48 hours.
How to deal with slugs when planting peppers in a greenhouse
Slugs that eat freshly sprouted cucumbers on the vine, but do not touch real leaves (because of the hairs), do not eat eggplant and tomato leaves, but are very fond of peppers, eating large holes in the leaves. How to be?
If you have edged beds, then the problem can be solved. It is necessary to lay out a tunnel from one wave of wave slate along the edges of the beds. At noon, snails and slugs will gather under it, you will turn the tunnel over and crush the slugs found. Leave them in place and turn the tunnel over again.
The next day you will find a whole bunch of them there, because the slugs will come to eat the remains of their relatives, instead of chewing on the leaves of your plants. You will do this for about a week, and you will completely free the garden from unwanted elements.
If you have not yet fenced the beds, then use flat slate for this. I recommend putting the slate fence outward with the rough side, then the slugs and snails, who are afraid for their delicate belly, will not climb into your garden from the outside.
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Pests on tomatoes often cause significant damage. When dealing with them, it is important to take into account the fact that any means are most effective at the initial stage of plant infection. Therefore, the control of landings should be carried out daily. Butterflies such as the cutworm and whitefly may not be immediately noticed, and their activity can lead to a complete loss of the crop.
Scoop butterflies are completely inconspicuous in appearance, they look like a large moth. With open wings, their size is from 2.5 to 4.5 cm. The color is gray-brown, the wings are decorated with stripes, zigzags and strokes.
Scoops are very prolific, one individual lays 500 or more eggs per season. Leaves eggs on leaves, buds and flowers, 1-3 pieces. The lower part of the eggs is flat, the top is convex, it can be ribbed or cellular. Egg development is very fast. In warm weather, the egg matures from 2 to 5 days, in cool weather - from 4 to 10.
The development period of caterpillars is about 20 days, sometimes faster. The body is naked, the color is gray, brown, yellow-green, not bright. Caterpillars go into the ground to a depth of about 10 cm, where they pupate. Pupae overwinter in the soil.
During the season, butterflies fly from 2 to 5 times, the life expectancy of each is 20 - 40 days. Caterpillars are the most dangerous to tomatoes. At first they feed on leaves and buds, then they move on to fruits, gnaw out holes and settle inside. Tomatoes damaged by caterpillars are not suitable for eating.
Both butterflies and caterpillars are nocturnal.
Why are whiteflies dangerous?
Whiteflies are very small butterflies, more like midges. Their size is 1.5 - 3 mm. The body is white or yellowish, wings with white pollination. If you move the plant on which they settled, then the whiteflies take off in a white swarm.
They live on the underside of the leaf, sucking the juice out of it. The upper surface of the leaves is covered with white dust, which turns black over time. Leaves curl and dry.
The plaque passes to the fruits, they deteriorate. The inside of the damaged tomato is white.
The larvae of these butterflies are translucent. At first they are mobile, then they attach to the sheet and do not move.
Whiteflies become active in warm and humid weather, and die at temperatures below 10 ° C. The eggs of these butterflies are not afraid of cold, they hibernate at minus degrees in the upper soil layer.
In addition to the harm caused by their vital activity, the danger of whiteflies is that they are carriers of bacterial diseases. Tomatoes stop growing, the fruits are deformed, new ovaries are not formed. After a while, the plant dies.
Both whiteflies and scoops damage tomatoes both in open ground and in greenhouses. In addition, they also move to other garden crops: eggplant, peppers, zucchini.
How to process tomatoes
The most effective method of dealing with caterpillars on tomatoes is chemical treatment. But it should be noted that chemical pesticides are removed from plants in 20-30 days. Using these tools, you need to calculate the expected harvest time. It is better to collect brown tomatoes before processing and put them in another place for ripening.
When working with insecticides in a greenhouse, it is necessary to act strictly according to the instructions, because the chemicals remain in the ground for a long time, accumulate and are absorbed by the tomatoes.
To combat scoops on tomatoes, it is better to choose drugs that affect both butterflies and caterpillars at the same time. These funds include:
- "Inta - Vir". Substances in its composition repel butterflies, affect caterpillars at any stage of their development. Apply only in the presence of pests, not suitable for prevention;
- "Decis" - acts quickly, is not phytotoxic for the plant. Protects tomatoes for 10 - 15 days;
- "Avant" - resistant to rain, affects the laying of eggs and caterpillars. Can't be used more than 2 times.
Insecticides of the 4th hazard class are removed from tomatoes faster. These are biological substances, these include Lepidocil, Agravertin, Aktofit, Fitoverm.
From the whitefly, tomatoes are sprayed with Aktara, Iskra, Mospilan, Admiral and others. These insects develop strong immunity to insecticides, therefore, to combat the next generations, the means should be changed.
Folk remedies for combating caterpillars on tomatoes
Folk measures should be applied as soon as the first pest is detected. With a massive defeat, they may not bring the desired result.
You can scare away the scoop from tomatoes if you spray it once a week with an infusion of garlic, wormwood or tobacco dust:
- a head of garlic or a small bunch of garlic arrows is crushed and poured with boiling water in a liter jar. Insist 3 days. Half a glass of filtered product is added to a bucket of water;
- the bucket is filled 1/3 with fresh wormwood, poured with water and boiled over low heat for half an hour. Infuse for 2 days, filter and dilute with water in a ratio of 1:10;
- 300 grams of tobacco dust is poured into a bucket of hot water and insisted for a day.
Laundry soap is added to each of these solutions. It is crushed and melted in a small amount of water. For 1 bucket of infusion, 1/3 of a standard bar is enough. Soap makes the composition sticky and keeps it on the tomatoes for a long time.
The same solutions can be used to fight the whitefly.
In addition, the whitefly can be washed off with very cold water. In order not to cause shock to the plant, this procedure is carried out in the early morning hours, when the leaves have not yet warmed up in the sun.
Small butterflies die from exposure to soap suds. Green or laundry soap is whipped into a strong foam, and applied with a sponge to the surface of the leaves on both sides. The method is used if the plantation with tomatoes is not very large.
Whiteflies flying on bright yellow. If you put a twig near each bush, attach yellow paper to it, on which you apply any sticky agent (honey, petroleum jelly, garden glue, oil), then most of the butterflies will easily stick to such a trap.
In the greenhouse, you can use fumigators from flies and mosquitoes, but the doors and vents must be closed.
Prevention
The same preventive measures are used against cutworms and whiteflies. Their pupae and larvae overwinter in the soil, so they dig it up for the winter, and do not break the clods of earth. If in the current year the pest infestation was massive, then the topsoil must be removed to a depth of 15 cm and replaced.
In spring, the landing site is shed with boiling water, or a bright pink solution of potassium permanganate.
It is important that the beds are cleared of weeds, and the plantings are not thickened. Watering tomatoes is carried out under the root. Morning watering is preferable so that by evening the moisture from the soil has time to evaporate.
From the penetration of the scoop into the greenhouse, windows and doors can be protected with mosquito nets or hang tulle.
Do not neglect preventive measures, carry out the treatment with folk remedies to repel butterflies. It is likely that then they will not fly into your plantation with tomatoes.
Today, growing vegetables in special greenhouses is becoming more and more popular. After all, it is much easier to create optimal conditions for the life of plants in them. Thus, you can get an early and large harvest. But when choosing this method of growing vegetables, it is worth remembering that the greenhouse does not protect against pests and various diseases. And sometimes even vice versa - contributes to their emergence and development. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor their appearance and take preventive measures regularly.
Holes in tomato fruits
Holes on tomatoes are a familiar phenomenon to many gardeners. These are the first signs that the caterpillar has been feasting on them. Such a fruit has an unattractive appearance, and its taste qualities are reduced, provided that it has had time to ripen. Caterpillars also attack green fruits. Thus, they do not have time to ripen, turn brown and simply fall to the ground. Moreover, they damage the leaves and stem of the plant. Therefore, their appearance is dangerous at different periods of plant growth.
The invasion of caterpillars is a real misfortune. This all brings a lot of trouble to the gardener. After all, his crop is under threat of destruction. Therefore, it is necessary to take measures to help deal with this problem.
Caterpillars on tomatoes in a greenhouse: pest features
Caterpillars are of different types. Scoops mostly appear on tomatoes. They can be distinguished by their appearance. These insects are quite large. Their length can reach twenty or more centimeters. The color of the scoop is light green, they have dark green stripes that run throughout the body. You can meet them not only on tomatoes, but also on other vegetables: peppers, cabbage, eggplant and more.
Caterpillars develop quite quickly. Therefore, several generations can be produced in one season. The first appears in late May, early July, and the second - from mid-summer until the end of the garden season. They develop from eggs laid by adults. Thus, the pest is active throughout the entire period of plant growth.
Caterpillars eat tomatoes in a greenhouse: how to identify a pest?
It is not difficult to determine the appearance of caterpillars in a greenhouse. You can use one method for this. It consists in using fermented kvass or compote. These drinks are a delicacy for the pest. When they appear, he will certainly go to them. After drinking these liquids, the pest will die. Therefore, if there are caterpillars in the greenhouse, then you will find them in kvass.
How to deal with caterpillars in a greenhouse: preventive procedures
As practice shows, it is better to prevent the appearance of a pest in a greenhouse than to fight it. The caterpillar can get into it only by flying into the structure. Basically, this happens through the window in the process of airing the room, which must be carried out regularly. To prevent this, it is necessary to install protective grids.
In addition, it is important to carry out additional preventive work. They will help protect vegetables from pests, infections and various diseases. This includes the regular destruction of weeds. It is held throughout the season: from spring to autumn. Thus, there will be no breeding ground for pests.
Before you start planting plants, you need to cultivate the soil. To do this, you can use boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate. This will kill all pests that do not care about frost, and they are preserved in the ground. For example, butterfly larvae.
It is also necessary to monitor the plant and inspect it regularly. In addition, experts recommend spraying it during the flowering period. For this, such means as "Citkor", "Decis" are suitable. They will strengthen the plant and protect it from pests. And if it already has its eggs, they will be destroyed. If necessary, spraying can be repeated.
When the fruits begin to set, you should not use chemicals, as they will harm the vegetables: they accumulate in the tomatoes themselves. Then such a fruit has a low nutritional value. In such a period, it is better to give preference to biological methods.
As practice shows, it is easier to deal with caterpillars while they are small in size. Large damage is much more stable, so it is not easy to destroy it. If the appearance is detected in time, then carrying out preventive procedures will help eliminate the problem.
How to deal with caterpillars in a greenhouse?
In the fight against caterpillars in the greenhouse, different methods are used. If we talk about chemical, then it involves the use of special preparations that can be purchased at the appropriate stores. One of the most effective is Prestige. It is used when planting a vegetable - its roots are soaked in a solution for half an hour. Then the plant is planted in previously prepared holes. This processing is usually sufficient. It is enough for the whole season and additional measures are not required.
The method of preparation of this and other drugs is indicated on the package. If you strictly follow the instructions, they are quite effective and will help get rid of the caterpillars. But it is important to note that their use is possible only before fruits are set on the plant. This is an important condition that should not be neglected.
You can also spray with garlic. An infusion is prepared on its basis. To do this, the garlic is peeled and poured with water. This solution is left for a week. And the place should be sunny. Since the fermentation process must take place. Then it is filtered, diluted with water. This tincture is great for spraying tomatoes. She destroys the caterpillars. It does not harm the plant.
For these purposes, burdock infusion is also well suited. The leaves of the plant are crushed and poured with water. This mixture should be infused for three to four days. Then it is filtered and soap shavings are added to it. Now the tincture is ready for use.
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