The popularity of using biological products in summer cottages is due to the desire of people to protect themselves from the effects of chemicals in order to obtain a healthier harvest. But often, when using biological insecticides and fungicides, vegetable growers and gardeners make a number of unforgivable mistakes.
Storage of prepared solutions
To treat plants, any biological product is diluted with water before use. But after carrying out preventive work, the prepared solutions are not stored, but are disposed of, which in most cases does not happen.
Trying to save money, summer residents can only harm themselves, since such a solution will no longer benefit the plants.
I'll do like a neighbor
Communicating with each other, summer residents share their own experience in using drugs to control pests or diseases. But it is not a fact that border areas will have the same disease or pest. Any biological product has its own specific purpose and dosage. But in most cases, summer residents do not pay any attention to this.
“The neighbor said that he treated the greenhouse with Fitoverm, which means I need it too.” But in fact, this person needs treatment with a fungicide, since his plants show all the signs of late blight, and the drug Fitoverm is an insecticide.
Inattention to the method of application
Any biological product is created on the basis of fungi, spores and pathogens, which are necessarily capable of precipitating. Based on this factor, it is written on each package that before use the bottle must be shaken until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
Summer residents often neglect this rule. But it is in the sediment that all the useful forms of the drug, so necessary for plants, remain.
I'll mix everything and see what happens
Manufacturers of biological drugs quite clearly and clearly describe the algorithm for using a particular drug on the packaging. Most summer residents either read it inattentively or don’t pay attention to it at all.
Not all spores and bacteria get along with each other, so thoughtlessly mixing all the drugs will not only not help, but will also harm the plants.
Forgot to strain
The bulk of biological products are based on fungal spores, which can swell to large sizes upon contact with water. The main part of treatments with biological products is carried out by spraying leaves using sprayers or atomizers.
Before pouring the drug into the sprayer, it must be filtered through a sieve or gauze. This will reduce the risk of the sprayer clogging, which will lead to an increase in its service life.
Start date for using biological products
A huge number of amateur vegetable growers are confident that the use of biological products can solve the problem of plant diseases instantly. But this is far from true.
Without exception, all biological products have a cumulative property, and their use must begin 2 weeks after transplanting plants into open or closed ground with an application interval of 14 days. Only in this case can you be sure that the biological product will be beneficial and will not turn out to be a pointless waste of money.
Taking into account all of the above typical mistakes, we can say with confidence that summer residents will not be left without a full and healthy harvest of vegetables and fruits.
