Almost every gardener and gardener on a personal plot has such a plant as celandine. Some try to get rid of it in every possible way, not realizing how valuable culture it is. In addition to the fact that celandine is actively used for medical and cosmetic purposes, today it has become a faithful assistant to gardeners. It turns out that solutions prepared on the basis of celandine effectively deal with various pests, including aphids.

Action against aphids and ants

Celandine is a plant that is unique in its properties. Its most important advantage in the fight against aphids and ants is its cheapness. Now you do not need to spend money buying expensive and not always effective insecticides, since you can prepare effective solution from celandine. This weed is characterized by insecticidal properties.

It contains the following components:

• ascorbic acid;
• flavonoids;
• saponins;
• essential oils;
• organic acids;
• alkaloids;
• bitterness.

How to apply

Today, there are several options for using celandine as effective remedy to combat aphids and other pests.

Dusting

This procedure is one of the simplest, but no less effective. You need to take dry grass, turn it into powder, and then scatter it all over the area.

Disinfection of flower bulbs

You can use an infusion of celandine before planting aphid flowers and take it for storage. It is necessary to hold the planting material for 2 hours in a warm infusion of celandine.

To obtain it, take 150 g of dry raw materials, pour 5 liters of water. Insist 5 days, and filter before use. But how to correctly apply ammonia against aphids, and what results can be achieved, is described in great detail in the article

Protection of landings from aphids and rodents

To do this, you must use celandine, both dried and fresh. It is easy to scatter it over the area between plantings. Often this method is used for plants of the bulbous family, carnations, young berry bushes and fruit trees.

Spray infusion

If there is a massive defeat of aphids, then it is necessary to cut off a fresh bush of celandine, finely chop and fill the bucket by 1/5. Top up with boiling water and wait 25 minutes.

To carry out the treatment of affected plants, it is necessary to already filtered solutions. Do this several times until the pest is completely affected. This infusion can be used to combat caterpillars that have settled on fruit trees. But how to spray tomatoes from black aphids, and how to do it correctly, you can learn from this

Infusion for watering

To destroy the larvae and adults of aphids, you can use an infusion of celandine for watering. To do this, take 0.5 kg of finely chopped celandine. Moreover, you can use both flowers and stems, roots. Pour everything into 10 liters of water and wait half an hour. As soon as the solution has acquired a brown color, this indicates its readiness. It is also worth learning more about how and how to do it right with your own hands.

Infusion for vegetable crops

This celandine solution can be used to combat aphids on tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini and other vegetable crops. The composition is also effective for eliminating the pest from fruit and berry crops.

To prepare the solution, you need to take 3.5 kg of finely chopped fresh raw materials, pour 10 liters of water. Cover the container with a lid and wait 1.5 days. Before using the solution, it must be filtered.

Since celandine secretes poisonous juice, rubber gloves must be worn when preparing the solution. The knife and the container in which the composition was located should be thoroughly rinsed with soapy water, and then with tap water.

Fumigation

This procedure effectively fights against various pests that have settled on vegetable and fruit crops. While burning plants under trees and bushes, the smoke will kill insects.

Celandine mulch

A mulching layer made of celandine has a positive effect on plants. In addition to the fact that crops and trees will receive useful components, moisture can linger in the ground for a long time, so it also helps to fight various pests perfectly.

All that is required of you is to simply chop up the celandine and lay the tree-trunk circles under the plants. Still such a mulch - effective way weed control.

The preparation of celandine must be done in May-June, when the plant is in bloom. Dry it in the shade and store it in paper bags. But if aphids have appeared on strawberries, and home remedies do not help, you should follow the link and read the content

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From the section " Useful Tips", Now I will tell you how you can fight pests and plant diseases on your garden plot without chemicals, using only herbal infusions and decoctions.

Infusions and decoctions of herbs in this struggle have a number of obvious and indisputable:
- they are safe, both for humans and for pets and our feathered friends;
- they are easy to prepare,
- they are almost always “at hand”, next to us: in the garden, forest, in the garden, in the field.
So,

10 plants, decoctions and infusions of which are used to combat pests and diseases of fruit and vegetable crops.

1- Wormwood.
The whole plant is used for the broth. Freshly cut grass must be chopped, filled with water (half a bucket of chopped grass - half a bucket of water) and the resulting mixture must be left for a day. After that, we boil the resulting water-herbaceous mass for 30 minutes, filter it and add water to the remaining volume of the broth, the same amount by volume as the resulting broth. This broth is used to combat the apple moth and other caterpillars and beetles that feed on the leaves of fruit trees. For treatment, the affected trees are sprayed twice with a decoction of wormwood, with an interval between spraying of about a week.

2- Burdock.
To prepare an infusion from burdock, its leaves are crushed, poured with water (for 1/3 of a bucket of chopped grass, 2/3 of a bucket of water is taken) and insisted for 3 days. The strong smell of the infusion repels pests and helps in the fight against pest butterflies. Spraying fruit trees is best done in the evening when butterflies are active. In order to achieve a good result, it is advisable to process fruit trees 4 times per summer with such an infusion.

3- Potato tops.
An infusion of potato tops is used to combat ticks and aphids.

For 1 kg of chopped potato tops, take 10 liters of water, leave for 12 hours and filter.

Approximately 10-12 hours after spraying, up to 90% of ticks and aphids are killed.

4- Dandelion.
Dandelion leaves are used to prepare the infusion. For 10 liters of water, 40 g of crushed green leaves are needed.
Insist 12 hours, filter.
Dandelion infusion is used in the fight against aphids, ticks and other insects that damage fruit and berry crops, cabbage, cucumbers and other vegetable plants.

5- Field chamomile.
100 g of dried and crushed flowers of a field chamomile are poured into 10 liters of water.

After a day, the infusion is filtered and diluted with water five times. Add 50 g of liquid soap to a bucket of solution and foam.

The infusion is used against aphids, weevils and caterpillars.

6- Tansy.
The grass must be harvested at the beginning of flowering, cutting off the inflorescences entirely. Fresh herb serves good remedy against flies, bedbugs, fleas and moths. A decoction of tansy is effective against the apple moth and other pests. To prepare the broth, you need to take 700-800 g of tansy inflorescences.
Grind the plants, put in a container and pour 2 liters of water, close the container tightly with a lid and leave for two days. Then boil for 30 minutes, strain and add the same amount to the broth cold water how much broth turned out. Tansy is poisonous, so it is better to use rubber gloves when spraying, and it is best not to use the container for storing the broth for any other purpose.

7- Spurge.

Grows everywhere, poisonous.
To prepare the broth, take 4 kg of fresh leaves and boil in a small amount of water for 2-3 hours. The broth is filtered and diluted with water to 2.5 liters. They are used to combat the caterpillars of various butterflies. To combat fungal diseases, the stalks of the milkweed are cut into pieces 3-4 cm long. As soon as the juice comes out of the plants, they are dipped into water. The washed grass is thrown away, and the next portion is dipped into this water to wash out the juice. The washout is repeated several times until the water turns to the color of skimmed milk. Plants affected by powdery mildew, rust and other fungal diseases are sprayed with this solution 2-3 times.

8- Garlic.
Half a kilogram of garlic is crushed, poured in 10 liters of water, stirred and infused for two days, and then filtered through cheesecloth. Then add 50 g of soap and foam well.
The infusion is used against larvae, caterpillars, ticks, aphids, and against tomato disease - phytophthora. Plants are sprayed with the resulting infusion in the evening: fruit trees and berry bushes 2 times with an interval of 5 days; tomatoes - at the end of June and again after 10 days; cabbage and cucumbers - when pests appear.

9- Coniferous tree branches.
Fill a bucket with cut branches of pine or fir and boil with boiling water.
The next day, the infusion is filtered and diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 5.

It is used for spraying plants as a repellant against flying pests at the beginning of flowering of fruit trees and shrubs.

10- Celandine.
The celandine should be harvested during flowering, in May-July, cutting off the entire aerial part. In this case, you need to take into account the harmful effect of celandine juice on the skin and wear gloves on your hands. Dry the collected grass quickly at a temperature of 40-60 °. It is ground into a fine powder, which "pollinates" cabbage, radish, turnip, radish and other crops against the garden flea.
The grass can be fumigated, fruit trees and shrubs to destroy various insect pests. An infusion is prepared from the herb and roots of celandine. Insist 1 kg of dry mass in 10 liters of water for two days. Used against aphids, scale insects and other pests.

There are a great many plants, decoctions and infusions of which can protect your garden and vegetable garden from pests and diseases. I stopped only at ten of the most, in my opinion, common, which I also use at my summer cottage.

Have a good mood. good pest control and a great harvest!

For many summer residents, celandine grows in their gardens, and for many it grows like a weed. They pull him out, they fight him. But, besides the fact that the celandine weed is also a very useful plant. For example, with the help of celandine, you can easily fight aphids.

If aphids are growing on your roses or other garden plants, there will be little at first. But aphids can multiply very quickly and over time they will inhabit all our plants.

Using fresh celandine

To prepare an effective remedy for aphids, we need 2-3 celandine bushes. After you find the bushes, you will need to cut them down at the root. The yellow juice that the plant secretes - toxic and especially a lot of juice is contained in the root of the plant.
The cut grass must be chopped with a knife. Cut with gloves, celandine stains your hands a lot.

Then the chopped bushes are soaked in a bucket or 10 liters of water. He must release all his poisonous properties into the water. You can even squeeze the grass to make the juice come out better. The water will take on a tea-like color. The infusion is ready when the water turns dark brown. To do this, leave it soaked on 3 hours... You can leave him for a day, nothing will happen to him. Add liquid soap or any detergent to the resulting infusion. Soap is added to all plant infusions. Thanks to him, the droplets adhere well to plants. To enhance the action of this tool, you can add to it calcium chloride.

Before spraying strain the resulting remedy. There is a little trick. In order not to manually process every bush in the garden, you can purchase a karcher pump for irrigation from a barrel. This will greatly simplify your task. We lower the pump itself into the barrel with the solution, and from the hose you can water and spray the garden crops.

Aphids die quickly, but there is also a drawback to such folk remedy... In this way, you will have to fight aphids every week. After all, aphids multiply very quickly. If the plant is completely inhabited by pests, then of course you cannot do without chemistry. But while there are not many of them, natural remedies are just right. You can spray both garden crops and indoor plants. Instead of spraying, you can dip the affected branches in the solution.

The infusion of celandine will also help in the fight against leaf roll... But during processing, it must get inside the wrapped sheets. It is better to alternate spraying with infusion of celandine with infusion of garlic. It is also done, only chopped garlic is soaked in water.

An infusion of fresh celandine will help weevil, moths, suckers, spider mite, bedbugs... It is good to use it for prevention against colorado potato beetle... It will scare away the pest from the potato leaves. We insist for a day, add calcium chloride.

Cabbage will protect well from caterpillars and from any caterpillar on fruit trees. Will help mulch in cabbage beds fresh celandine. In general, in this way you can protect any vegetable, pests from vegetables are well scared away by mulching with celandine. But it dries quickly, so always leave a few plants for breeding.

Using dried celandine

Often they use not fresh, but dried celandine. In May - June, the plant is harvested at the moment when it blooms. The collected grass is dried in the shade. The simplest remedy for pests is to grind the dried grass into powder and mix with ash. The resulting mixture is then pollinate plants.

With a dried plant, you can disinfect the soil before sowing your favorite bulbous crops. Dried grass is covered in the hole at the end of August. And the prepared infusion is shed in the fall of the soil. A solution of dried celandine is made in almost the same way: take 300 grams of dried celandine, pour 10 liters of water and let it brew for 2 days.

Bulbs of plants, such as tulips or gladioli, should be soaked in it for 2 hours. After that, let the bulbs dry and you can plant them in the ground.

Plants can also be sprayed with an infusion of dry celandine, they will be less sore and infected with pests. But for 10 liters of water, you need to add 500 grams of celandine. It must be remembered that the plant is poisonous to humans, therefore, when spraying plants, it is better wear a respirator mask.

Against wireworm and beetle larvae the infusion is poured into the soil around horticultural crops.

Dried celandine will scare away well rodents if scattered on the ground. And you can smoke fumigate trees... We kindle heaps of dried grass under the trees or use a special device for fumigating bees. This method will help against aphids, thrips, as well as against some diseases: scab and powdery mildew. Phytoncides, which are contained in the plant, kill the painful fungus.

O healing properties celandine has been known since time immemorial. And does everyone know that the same celandine, which grows like a weed on plots, is effective in the battle against diseases not only of people, but also of garden ones, and indoor plants?

It turns out that with the help of celandine, you can protect the garden and flower garden from many pests. For this, a special infusion is used.

Dig up four celandine bushes by the roots when it is just starting to bloom. Finely chop all parts of the plant and fill with a bucket of water. After about 15 minutes, the water will turn brown, which means that the infusion is ready and can be used for watering and spraying.

For the preparation of the infusion, you can also use the dried herb of celandine.

You need to harvest it during flowering. Spread the dug out plants in the shade, and when they wither, chop finely and leave to dry. Store dried herb in paper bags.

The dry herb of celandine can be used as a disinfectant for bulbous crops. After you remove the bulbs of tulips, gladioli and other bulbs, rinse them well in running water, and then soak them for half an hour in an infusion of dry herb celandine. The infusion is prepared as follows: pour 150 g of dried celandine with 10 liters of water and leave to infuse for two days. Dry the processed bulbs and store them.

Before planting, repeat the procedure, only for infusion, take already 300 g of celandine per 10 liters of water, and hold the bulbs in the infusion for two hours. After that, dry the planting material in the shade and plant it in the ground.

If gladioli are not only disinfected according to the above scheme, but also regularly sprayed with celandine infusion, they will hurt less and be affected by pests. In this case, 500 g of dry celandine is insisted in 10 liters of water.

It is necessary to spray gladioli four times per season: at the stage of the second-third and fifth-sixth leaves, before flowering and after the growing season. Tulips need to be sprayed with the same infusion, but three times.

Will enhance the effect of mulching the soil around the plants with finely chopped herbs of celandine.

By the way, celandine fights not only plant pests, but also mice. It is enough to spread the dry grass of celandine between the bushes in the fall, to mulch holes around young trees and planting bulbous crops with it, and you can forget about mice for a long time.

REMEMBER!

Celandine is a very poisonous plant, and therefore precautions when working with it must be strictly observed. Gloves should always be worn on hands, and when spraying, it is imperative to wear a mask

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Almost every gardener and gardener on a personal plot has such a plant as celandine. Some try to get rid of it in every possible way, not realizing how valuable culture it is. In addition to the fact that celandine is actively used for medical and cosmetic purposes, today it has become a faithful assistant to gardeners. It turns out that solutions prepared on the basis of celandine effectively deal with various pests, including aphids.

Where does celandine grow

The only species of this genus is celandine great - medicinal plant... The homeland of celandine is Europe, as well as the Central and Northern parts of Asia. In North America, where the plant is now also found, it was introduced. In Russia, celandine is widespread everywhere, except for the regions of the Far North. The plant grows like a weed. It can be found in vegetable gardens, near stone walls, on rocky slopes, at the edges of the forest.

Botanical description of celandine

Greater celandine is a perennial herb. Celandine has a short rhizome and a thick, branched taproot, red-brown on the outside and yellow-orange on the inside. The stems of the plant are ribbed, up to 90 - 110 cm high, branched from above, erect, glabrous or branched below, with leaves. The basal and lower stem leaves have short petioles and are sometimes pubescent, the upper ones are alternate, sessile. Leaves are spherical-pinnate (deeply pinnate) with 3-5 pairs of lobes, green above, gray below. In the middle of the stems, in the roots, rhizomes and leaves there are lactarias, from which, when cutting or plucking parts of a green plant, a milky juice of a yellow-orange color is released. Flowers are collected in 4-8 pieces in simple umbrellas. Flowers are golden yellow with four petals, regular, 8-16 mm long. Celandine blooms in May-June, flowering can continue even until early September. The fruits ripen in August-October.

Useful properties of celandine

Celandine extract has many wonderful properties. Slows down the growth of malignant neoplasms. Has a pronounced sedative and analgesic effect. Local anesthetic properties. Removes warts, bumps and calluses. Relieves cramps and spasms of smooth muscles, has a bradycardic and hypotensive effect. Heals wounds. Strengthens urination. It has an irritating and choleretic effect. Used as a laxative. Has antimicrobial and insecticidal effects. The plant contains many alkaloids, some of which have contradictory effects. Therefore, before using celandine, be sure to read the contraindications.

What garden and vegetable pests are effective against celandine

• cabbage whites;
• earthen fleas;
• cabbage fly;
• cruciferous fleas;
• all kinds of aphids;
• leaf rollers;
• moths;
• suckers;
• thrips;
• sawflies;
• scoops;
• clickers (wireworms);
• apple scab;
• gooseberry moth;
• moths;
• rodents.

Infusion of celandine for pest control

Recently, after meeting with useful properties celandine, I use it to fight aphids and other insect pests. I make an infusion of celandine in water. For 10 liters of water I take five large crushed celandine plants (along with the roots). I let it brew for a day, and then I process it with infusion, through a spray bottle, all the plantings affected by the invasion of insects.

Aphids die instantly, and new broods brought by ants completely refuse to settle on treated plants. The flowers themselves noticeably come to life after spraying with celandine.

You can use celandine for your needs all season, while the plant appears on the site. Sometimes I even have to walk around in search of a fat bush, since large plants on my site immediately go into action.

By the way, celandine can be prepared for future use by simply drying it in the attic. After drying, it can be stored simply in bags with air access through the holes.

Infusion of celandine can disinfect the soil before the autumn planting of bulbs. And the tulips themselves can be kept in an infusion of celandine before planting in the ground.

The bulbs are kept for two hours in an infusion of celandine. For 10 liters of water - 300 grams of dry crushed mass, infused for two days. After processing, the bulbs should be dried again and only then planted in the soil.

Observance of precautions when working with celandine

Since the plants are poisonous, all work with them must be carried out with protective gloves. After finishing work, hands must be thoroughly washed with soap and water. Do not allow celandine juice and water extracts to come into contact with the skin and mucous membranes. During cooking, the container with the infusion must be closed with a lid to prevent possible poisoning of birds and animals.

Use biological methods of pest control, because they are safe for the environment, available to everyone and at the same time very effective!

If celandine does not grow in your plant or it is not enough, then do not be lazy and stock it up from the forest, meadows. But if you do not want to breed it on your site, then you can plant it somewhere nearby, on the lawn. Every weed can be used, especially as useful as celandine.

How to collect and procure celandine

For medicinal and recreational purposes, celandine can and should be used all year round. Even practically healthy people this plant can be useful for treating scratches and abrasions, relieving nervous tension and boosting immunity in the off-season.

To find the necessary drug, you do not need to run to the pharmacy if herbal collection, juice or infusion of celandine will be prepared for future use. For a home remedy to be as effective as possible, it must be properly collected and dried.

For the future, you can prepare celandine herb, from which in winter you will prepare infusions and decoctions. In summer, juice is squeezed out of the root of the plant, which is canned and stored in the refrigerator.

So, for harvesting celandine herb, we choose dry sunny days during its flowering, that is, from May to July - August. Armed with a sickle, we find the habitat of the plant. Look closely to see if there are diseased and diseased plants among the bushes of celandine, with sluggish, pale-colored leaves. Such a plant is not suitable for drying, it has already lost some of its useful qualities.

Collect only those plants whose leaves have a rich green color without signs of fungal diseases and other lesions. Remember that in winter you have to be treated with this herb, so the plants must be absolutely healthy.

Now we cut off the plants, but not at the very root, but at a distance of about 10 cm from the ground. You can simply break off the stems with your hands, but make sure that the juice does not get on your skin and clothes - it will quickly turn the fabric yellow and leave small but unpleasant burns on your hands. It is even more dangerous if drops of celandine juice get into the eyes, causing burns of the mucous membrane and lacrimation. Therefore, it is better to collect grass with gloves, and wear protective goggles on your eyes.