With the arrival of the first spring days revival begins on the land plots. For lovers gardening work You have to not only plant the seedlings, but also not allow insect pests to destroy them. Particularly great difficulties may arise in. After all, garden pests not only feed on plant sap and build nests in their roots, but are also carriers of aphids - the most dangerous enemy of green spaces. But getting rid of pests is very difficult, since only working individuals come to the surface of the anthill. The main reproducer of the genus practically never leaves the nest. Birch tar from ants in the garden is one of the natural organic remedies that will help cope with this problem.

Features of the product

Birch tar is a dark, oily liquid of viscous consistency that has a rather pungent, specific odor. This product is made by processing birch bark, which is heated strongly in a hermetically sealed container. As a result of the oxidation reaction, tar is released, which was found today wide application in the garden and vegetable garden.

Tar soap is made from birch tar. It also has anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects. They use tar soap against ants, codling moths, carrot flies and other insect pests.

How to use

Many summer residents, when they see one on their property, sound the alarm, and for good reason. Where these insects are present, there will certainly be another pest - aphids. After all, they live in a close, mutually beneficial union. An attack by these small insects can cause serious damage to green spaces. Therefore, tar against ants and aphids is one of the most popular means of pest control.

1. Quite often, birch tar is used to control ants on trees. To do this, wide bandages or pieces of gauze soaked in the product are wrapped around the trunk of an apple tree or other fruit tree. This option protects the wood from pests throughout the season.
2. You can also apply tar to the tree trunk with a brush at a height of 3-5 cm from the ground. The width of the tar layer should not exceed 5 cm.
3. Spraying with tar solution will help protect the bushes. To prepare it, you need to dissolve 0.5 pieces of tar soap in a 10-liter bucket of water. Then you need to add 5 tbsp to the resulting mixture. l. tar. The resulting soap solution is sprayed onto the bushes using a spray bottle. It is advisable to carry out this procedure in the late afternoon.
4. If so, you can use this recipe. Pressed sawdust is generously moistened with birch tar and poured with boiling water. Then you need to wait until the wood chips swell. The resulting tar substrate is laid out on ant nests or between beds of already planted seedlings.
5. The use of tar also involves washing the leaves of the plant. To do this, grated tar soap (50 g) is dissolved in a liter of hot water. The mixture is stirred periodically. After all the soap flakes have dissolved, add 5 ml of tar and 20 liters of water to the mass. The trunks, branches and leaves of plants are treated with this solution every month. For convenience, you can use a spray bottle.

Those who have already used this method of fighting insects leave positive reviews about birch tar.

Birch tar is an excellent remedy for ants. After just a couple of days, the insects were blown away by the wind.

Alexander, Donetsk

You can buy birch tar at any pharmacy kiosk. A 40 ml bottle costs between 50-150 rubles (depending on the manufacturer and region).

Our ancestors did not know what properties pesticides had, but they managed to protect the vegetables and fruits that they grew in their gardens and orchards. Most of these methods of salting plants have been lost for a long time.

Tar can be birch and birch bark. The first is a product of dry distillation of part of birch bark. Birch bark is already a product of dry distillation of young birch bark, stripped from a birch tree. Its production is more labor-intensive, but the result is clean tar, with pleasant smell. They try to use it only for internal treatment and for some skin diseases.

Below we list the main pests of vegetable gardens and orchards, the most common diseases, methods of control using birch tar, its mixtures, and also in combination with other substances.

On an apple tree. Pests - codling moth, hawthorn butterfly.

Apple codling moth. Codling moth caterpillars spend the winter under the bark of the lower part of the tree trunk, which remains in the ground tree trunk circles, mainly at the neck of the roots, in sticks, pieces of humus, and in other shelters. Pupation of caterpillars occurs on May 7-25 (this depends on weather conditions) and lasts 49 days. The emergence of butterflies occurs after the completion of flowering of apple orchards and lasts for 19-35 days. They lay eggs on the underside of leaves. After 5-14 days, caterpillars are born from the eggs, which harm the fruits.

Control measures. Before the butterflies fly out, apply a mixture of tar, soap and water (10 grams of tar, 30-50 grams of soap, 10 liters of water) to the trees and the soil underneath them. Hang small vials of the mixture on tree branches; the smell of tar will repel butterflies.

Hawthorn. Caterpillars of 2-3 instars spend the winter on a tree in dry leaves wrapped in cobwebs. At a temperature of +70 degrees Celsius, the caterpillars crawl out of the nest, each of them eats a green bud a day. After 3-4 weeks, the caterpillars become 4-5 instars. In the last days of May, at the beginning of June they pupate. The growth of the pupa lasts 14-19 days. Butterflies emerge throughout June. Eggs are laid on the bottom of the leaf. Caterpillars begin to appear after June 15th.

Control measures. Collecting winter nests, treating the soil and trees with a mixture (tar, water, soap). When applying measures to combat hawthorn in the summer, this action is similar to applying a mixture to destroy the codling moth.

On a pear. Cherry sawfly, hawthorn. Scab disease.

Cherry sawfly. The larvae spend the winter in the ground, in early spring they begin to pupate, and at the moment the stone fruit leaves bloom, adult insects fly out of the pupae. They cause harm to cherries, plums, bird cherry, chokeberry, rose hips, pears, raspberries, strawberries, and yurga. Females lay eggs on the lower part of the leaf along the midrib in the form of a chain in the amount of 4-10 pieces. The larvae that emerge from the eggs first eat the pulp of the leaves, and then gnaw through holes in them. The larvae live in groups and have common nests made of cobwebs. First, the larvae live in one place, and after that they evenly attach several more to it using a web, exposing the entire bush a little at a time.

Control measures. When young leaves appear, spray the trees with a mixture of tar, soap and water. After a week, spray again. The effectiveness of birch tar is manifested in the fight against a fungal disease - scab.

On the plum. Plum moth, hawthorn.

Plum moth. There is Transbaikal and imported from Central Asia. The Transbaikal caterpillar spends the winter in the soil of tree trunks and at the base of bushes. And the Central Asian one is in cracks and under the exfoliated bark of a tree trunk. Butterflies begin to appear before June 15th. The eggs are finished hatching by mid-June. After 5-7 days, the caterpillar appears, it feeds on the kernel from the pit, while the latter is still hard, and later on the pulp, destroying it all so that after this there remains a dry skin from the pit in the middle and multiple excrement between them.

Control measures. Before the butterflies start to emerge, treat the plants with a mixture of tar, soap and water (10 grams of tar, 50 grams of soap, 10 liters of water). The disease is hole spotting in stone fruits.

On the cherry tree. Hawthorn, plum moth, bird cherry weevil. The disease is cherry curl.

The bird cherry weevil is a beetle whose length is 4-4.5 millimeters, its color is grayish-brown. The beetles eat the leaves around the edges or gnaw a hole in them in the middle. They harm the shoots that are starting to grow, they gnaw the petioles of buds, inflorescences, and ovaries, which can lead to the shedding of these ovaries. Then they begin to gnaw through the flesh, as well as the tender bone, and get to the kernel, which they like to feed on at this moment. Damaged fruits fall or ripen distorted and one-sided. Beetles spend the winter under fallen leaves in different shelters in top layer soil. Females are engaged in laying eggs until June 15 in fruits that have reached more than half of their final size. At the same time they eat small hole in the pericarp, after which the egg is laid in the soft core. The larva that has emerged eats the entire core of the seed and begins the pupation process. The beetles emerge from the seeds in the second half of July - August and remain to spend the winter without additional food.

Control measures. When young leaves appear, apply a mixture of tar with soap and water. Spray again after flowering ends and ovaries appear.

From berry crops Black currants are the most susceptible to diseases and damaged by pests. Among them, the most harmful are mites (common leaf mites), rust, powdery mildew, hazel grouse, gooseberry moth.

The gooseberry moth harms gooseberries, black currants, and white currants. The pupae spend the winter in the top layer of soil, in old leaves that have fallen, under damaged vegetation. Butterflies begin to fly out when the leaves are fully blooming and continue until the end of the berry blossom. The butterfly lays eggs in the middle of flowers, in rare cases on inside young leaves or on the ovary. After a week, a caterpillar emerges from the egg in the form of green worms, which, without even getting out of the flower, begin to bite into the young ovaries and eat their contents. After destroying the first berry, the caterpillar moves to the second, connecting it with the first using a web. The caterpillar feeds for about a month, after which it slides down on the web and goes to hibernate.

Control measures. Collection and extermination of larvae, autumn digging. Spraying with a mixture of tar, water and soap before flowering begins.

The gooseberry moth is not the only pest that greatly harms gooseberries. In addition to it, the pale-footed and yellow gooseberry sawfly are often found. These pests are common on red currants, as is powdery mildew.

Gooseberry sawfly. Adult caterpillars spend the winter in the ground. At the moment the leaves open, adult sawflies emerge from the pupae. Females lay eggs on leaves. After 3-12 days, small pseudo-caterpillars emerge from the eggs and collect pulp from the bottom of the leaves. After 3-4 weeks they go into the ground, where they pupate. After 11-17 days, new sawflies emerge from the pupae.

Control measures. Spray before the flowering process begins, repeat after flowering (lye ash from wood, with tar and soap).

Raspberries are harmed by the raspberry-strawberry flower beetle. This is a black beetle, up to 3 millimeters long. Spends the winter under leaves that have fallen and in other shelters, in strawberry and raspberry plantings. Beetles most often feed on buds, eating into them round holes. Before the buds appear, they gnaw through holes and pits in the leaf petioles on the leaves. They lay eggs for more than a month (they start at the end of May) in strawberry buds, and later in raspberry buds. The larvae eat in buds that have fallen off.

Control measures. Before the buds appear, treat with a water mixture of tar. The tar mixture will prevent common spider mites from multiplying.

For strawberries, in addition to those mentioned for raspberries, the strawberry mite is dangerous. Among the diseases is white spotting of leaves.

Sea ​​buckthorn. Gray pear weevil, sea buckthorn fly. IN Lately the crop is very susceptible to diseases - endomycosis, drying out, scab.

The sea buckthorn fly, 4-5 millimeters long, overwinters (in pupae) in false cocoons in the top layer of soil under damaged trees. 2 weeks after departure (late June - early July), females begin to lay eggs, placing one egg under the skin of sea buckthorn fruits using an ovipositor, in rare cases two in each of them. The lifespan of a female sea buckthorn fly is approximately three weeks. The eggs develop for about one week, after which larvae hatch from them and feed on the pulp from the fruit.

After finishing feeding (after three weeks), the larvae crawl under fallen leaves or into the ground.

Chokeberry. Cherry slimy sawfly, rowan moth.

The rowan moth lives in passages among the leaves and flowers of hawthorn, pear, apple, and common rowan. Caterpillars of 2-3 instars spend the winter in cracks and folds of bark, in the forks of branches, and even less often - under lumps of soil and fallen leaves, in the middle of bushes, one at a time in a cocoon of cobwebs. After the caterpillars leave their wintering grounds, they climb the plants, settling in the inflorescences, fasten the buds and flowers with a web into a nest, in which they eat first the buds and later the flowers. After destroying the flowers, they move on to the leaves.

Cabbage, radishes, turnips and other cruciferous crops are destroyed by the white butterfly and cabbage white butterfly.

The cabbage fly looks like ordinary houseflies from the outside. Fly larvae make their way into the inner part of the main root of cabbage, which slows down the onset of nutritional components in aboveground part, thereby causing weakness or death of the plant. Female flies lay eggs near cabbage seedlings, often in cracks in the soil formed at the base of the stems. The emerging larvae move to the stem and roots of the cabbage and enter them. Damaging radishes and other root crops, the larvae make their way inside the root crop.

Fighting methods. Add one tablespoon of birch tar to 10 liters of water. Water the cabbage seedlings with the mixture. After 6-10 days, water again. It is advisable to water radishes and turnips with this very solution.

Pests of onions and garlic. The main pest is the onion fly, similar to house flies and cabbage flies. Females lay eggs between onion leaves or near plants. After emerging, the larvae immediately dig into the juicy tissue of the onion.

Fighting methods. Watering the soil with a tar mixture (1 spoon per 10 liters of water + 20-40 grams of soap). Repeat procedure in two weeks.

Pests of table beets. Beet aphid, beet fly, beet flea beetle. They cause damage mainly to the pulp of the leaves. When the first shoots appear, water with a mixture of tar and water (similar to the previous one).

Carrot pests. Carrot psyllid, carrot fly.

Fighting methods. Water the soil with a tar mixture (1 spoon per 10 liters of water + 20-40 grams of soap).

Pests of cucumbers and other pumpkin crops. Sprout fly, 3-5 millimeters long. Fly larvae consume germinating seeds and shoots. At seedlings, the larvae make their way into the middle of the stem, which leads to the death of the plants.

Fighting methods. Water the seedlings with a mixture of tar and water.

Pests of tomato, eggplant, pepper, potato. The main pests are the Colorado potato beetle and cutworms. In the fight against the Colorado potato beetle, it is advisable to treat potato seedlings with a mixture (10 grams of tar per 10 liters of water).

Late in autumn, when the ground is already frozen and snow has not fallen yet, you can use sawdust soaked in tar solution (1 tablespoon per bucket of water). They are poured under garden trees, shrubs. Mice cannot tolerate the smell of tar and do not harm fruit trees.

To intimidate hares, tree trunks are coated. Add freshly slaked lime diluted in water in a proportion of 1 kilogram to a bucket of mullein, or mix equal parts of mullein and clay, adding 30-50 grams of tar to the bucket of the mixture. Mix everything with water until creamy. The resulting mixture is applied to tree trunks.

Use of birch tar in veterinary medicine.

Birch tar was widely used and continues to be used today in the treatment of certain diseases of horses, cattle and small ruminants, pigs, sheep, chickens and dogs.

Birch tar is a powerful bactericidal agent that kills spores and vegetative forms anthrax. Strongly affects fleas, lice, scabies mites.

Birch tar is used for infectious diseases of the respiratory tract in the form of an expectorant and antimicrobial in the form of inhalation of purified tar vapors.

Previously, peasants hung an open container with tar in the room where animals were located. When evaporated, the tar purified the air inside the room and the room itself - the animals did not get sick after that.

Also, birch tar was used to disinfect horse harnesses and their leather parts, while the skin becomes softer and stronger under the influence of tar; stall and care items, in pure form and in 5-10% tar-sulfur mixtures.

For the treatment of lichen and scabies, birch tar is used in the form of emulsions and liniments. Rub them warm (50 C) into the skin of sick animals. The course of treatment is two times at intervals of a week. In advanced cases - three times with an interval of 3-4 days.

Most often used:

Viennese tar liniment (sulfur and tar 1 part each, green soap and alcohol 2 parts each);

Alkali-tar emulsion (tar - 5 parts, hot ash lye 15-20% 100 parts, leave with frequent stirring for 1-2 days);

Tar-soap emulsion (soap - 3-4 parts, hot water- 100 parts, tar - 5 parts, and for itchy scabies - 10 parts);

Tar-kerosene emulsion (kerosene - 10 parts, tar - 1 part, after 24 hours the mixture and kerosene are drained and diluted 1:5 with strong ash liquor, 3-5% soap solution, 5% flaxseed decoction);

Paste for bird scabies (tar 100 parts, soap 100 parts, during production tar and soap are heated to 70 C).

Mucus-tar mixtures (5% tar emulsion in skim milk, milk or mucous decoction);

Birch tar is widely and successfully used to treat surgical diseases of the lower limbs and hooves, which is associated with the medicinal qualities of tar and its ability to protect tissues from moisture penetration. For the above purposes, use a tar solution from fish oil, which is initially used in a ratio of 1:10 (1 part tar, 10 parts fish oil), and then 1:20 (1 part tar, 20 parts fish oil).

In the internal part of the body, tar is used as an anti-fermentation and cleansing agent for the intestines and stomach. Give horses and cattle to drink - 10 - 25 grams; small cattle and pigs 2-5 grams; chickens - 0.05 - 0.1 grams; dogs - 0.1 -1 grams.

A mixture of tar with fish oil or sunflower oil(10 milliliters - tar, 0.5 liters - oil) good remedy protection of horses, cows and small livestock from blood-sucking insects - flies, mosquitoes, spiders.

With the arrival of spring, the number of visitors to the Club who want to purchase a safe, but effective drug from pests. Considering that bioinsecticides known and popular among Club Members, such as Actofit, Bitoxibacillin (BTB), Lepidocid, are effective only at air temperatures above +18°C, the question arose: what drug can help in the garden with low temperatures and not harm our health and the environment? Therefore, we decided to offer old, time-tested means of protection.

Our ancestors also had a “garden first aid kit”, only it consisted mainly of natural, organic products, and one of the products that occupy a worthy place in it and protect plants from diseases and pests was Birch tar.

The use of birch tar in gardening

— Before flowering begins, it is necessary to make a saturated tar solution (at least 13-15 g per 10 liters of water) with laundry soap (50-100 g) and thoroughly spray the bushes. There is one more nuance. Practicing the use of birch tar in gardening, many experts coat the trunks of currants, gooseberries, and raspberries with pure tar mixed with a small amount of wood ash. This prevents the development of many bacterial and viral infections that can leave you completely without a harvest.

— Most often, the apple glass moth, and of course the codling moth and hawthorn, bring trouble to gardeners. The most dangerous is the codling moth, since in a particularly “lucky” year its caterpillars can actually eat almost half of the entire harvest. And at this moment birch tar comes to the rescue. Use in gardening allows you to reliably protect apple trees from codling moths. To do this, you need not only the tar itself, but also water and soap, from which you need to make a special solution (10 g of tar, 50 g of laundry or tar soap per 10 liters of water). This solution is used to treat tree trunks, branches and the ground around trees where pests hide.

— You can make a protective belt against ants that carry aphids into trees. To do this, 10 ml of tar are diluted in 5 liters of water and the solution is soaked in a cloth that is wrapped around the trunks of trees and bushes. In addition to ants, the smell of tar will also repel other pests. Over time, the impregnations are restored.

— Rodents can be repelled by mulching the tree trunks and bushes with sawdust soaked in a tar solution (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water).

— In the winter season, hares will be scared away from young trees and bushes by a clever composition of whitewash: mullein and clay (1:1), chalk (1 kg), dilute 50 g of tar with water to the consistency of sour cream.

— What to do if you notice dark spots on the fruits with concentric circles in the form of white dots? After all, this is how dangerous things manifest themselves. fungal disease- scab. And here birch tar will help. Application in gardening in this case is completely similar to all the situations described above, with the exception of one point. The active substance (that is, tar) per 10 liters of water should be taken not 10, but about 15 g. Just don’t overdo it! The fact is that birch tar contains enough acidic substances that, if used excessively, can even burn the leaves.

The use of birch tar in gardening

— The worst enemies of root crops - wireworms, May beetles, mole crickets and rodents - are repelled in a simple way. Add 1 tbsp to 10 liters of water. a fly in the ointment and the rows are shed. Before planting, potatoes are “bathed” in this solution. Additionally, you can spread out a small amount of sawdust soaked in a tar solution. During the growing season, you need to water the rows several more times to restore the smell.

— From moles and rodents: grease the bottom of the pegs with tar and hammer into the ground. Over time, if necessary, repeat this procedure.

— Cabbage plantings are protected from cabbage whites in the following way: rags coated with tar are wrapped around pegs and placed in the beds. The tar smell repels butterflies. You can also spread sawdust soaked in a tar solution among the cabbage. Additionally, this will repel other pests.

— To repel the Colorado potato beetle from planting potatoes and eggplants, prepare the following spraying solution: 10 liters of water, 10 ml of tar and 50 g of laundry soap.

— To prevent carrot flies, 3 times a season (when sowing, in June and August), water the beds with tar solution (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water).

How to dilute birch tar?

Tar is a mixture of resins and oils, so it does not dissolve in water and to work with it you need to prepare a soap solution. Can be used laundry soap, but better - tar, solid or liquid.

More information about tar soap

A fly in the ointment can ruin a barrel of honey. But this same tar, which has absorbed all the beneficial substances of birch bark, can cure many diseases.
Thanks to your healing properties Tar has been used for a long time in the treatment of skin diseases. Birch tar has antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic properties, reduces redness, and has a resolving effect.

In cosmetology and dermatology, tar is used as an aid to improve the condition of the skin of the face and body in case of inflammatory problems. skin(ulcers, burns and frostbite, bedsores, itching, rashes, scabies, eczema, seborrheic dermatitis, vitiligo, psoriasis, fungus, athlete's foot, as well as to prevent hair loss and stimulate their growth. In addition, tar is successfully used in cosmetology for treatment of dry skin, dandruff, acne, etc.

Tar soap - contains birch tar. Has bactericidal and anti-inflammatory properties.
Mode of application : Apply to damp skin, lather, rinse with water.

The tar-soap solution should be prepared a day or two before the day of spraying trees, bushes or vegetables, then the tar will dissolve much better. You rub it required quantity soap as finely as possible, add to a container (for example, a jar), fill with water at a temperature of 45-50°C to prepare a soap solution.
How much soap? Depending on the purpose for which you use birch tar (see recommendations for the ratio of soap and tar in the article).

Add required amount tar, stir from time to time and leave overnight or for a longer time. Tar remains on the surface. Shake it vigorously from time to time. It will not dissolve completely, but just stir it well before spraying.
Before spraying, pour this prepared liquid into the sprayer through the filter. (Attention! This is very important! Be sure to filter!). As a filter, you can, for example, use gauze or a nylon stocking. Then add the required amount of water to the sprayer and go out to work.

A few recommendations:
1. tar must be diluted in advance, for example, a day or two before treatment;
2. the working solution must be stirred from time to time;
3. stir well before spraying;
4. Be sure to filter the diluted tar before adding it to the sprayer.

To prevent ants and flower beetles from getting onto the trees, you can make a “scaring belt”, but if the trees are young, then you need to put a film under the “scaring belt”, because concentrated tar can leave burns.

It is necessary to treat with other biological products (Phytodoctor, Trichodermin, Planriz) 3-5 days after treatment with tar. The opposite is also true.
If so, you will find useful an article on protecting your garden in the spring, written by organic gardening practitioner Victor Gurzhiy. Read .

Birch tar can already be purchased from us in Clubs and . Buy and start repelling harmful insects and rodents. If your area gives off a tar “aroma”, pests will avoid it.
We wish you success and great harvests!

Timely and successful processing, Oksana SOKOLAN, Natalya MATYUSHINA

Our ancestors successfully grew various garden crops and a lot of all kinds of fruits and berries in their garden. But at the same time they had no idea about modern means protection of plants from various pests. The secret is that they everywhere used such a magical remedy as tar obtained from birch bark. Today we will talk about its use in the garden.

Birch tar: about its properties

Few people know that there are two types of tar - birch bark and birch. Birch bark tar is obtained by dry distillation of young birch bark. This process is quite labor-intensive, but the result is an absolutely pure product that has a pleasant smell. It is used mainly internally and for the treatment of various skin diseases.

Birch tar looks like a dark-colored oily liquid with a characteristic pungent odor. It has long been known for its incredible properties. This is excellent protection against various fungal diseases, an excellent antimicrobial agent, and also an excellent antiseptic. Thanks to his unique composition, birch tar has found its use in medicine, cosmetology and even gardening. This absolutely natural product perfectly protects against many pests, both vegetable and garden crops. But more on that below.

Use of birch tar in pest control

As already mentioned, birch tar will do an excellent job of destroying many garden and garden pests, and you most likely won’t even need chemicals.

In the garden plot

So, tar is used in the garden plot for the following purposes:

• To combat the Colorado potato beetle. Birch tar will be an excellent tool for combating the Colorado potato beetle not only on potato bushes, but also on pepper and even eggplant beds. To prepare the product in a 10-liter volume, we will need: 10 g of tar and 50 g of laundry soap.
• To protect against onion fly . You can prevent fly attacks on onions by pre-treating the onion sets. Approximately 30 minutes before planting the seedlings, place the bulbs in a plastic bag and add tar there, mixing it thoroughly (take 1 tablespoon of birch tar per 1 kg of bulbous seedlings).

Advice. If the moment has passed and the bulbs have already been planted, you can still protect them even in the soil by treating them with a special compound. To prepare it you will need 1 tbsp. fly in the ointment, 30 g of soap (the amount of ingredients is suggested based on 10 liters of water). Ready solution The bed with young onions is watered. After a couple of weeks, it is advisable to repeat the procedure.

• To protect against cabbage. Cabbage weed often severely damages cabbage beds. This can be avoided by placing small wooden pegs wrapped in rags soaked in tar along the cabbage beds. This will scare away the butterflies.
• To remove wireworms. Wireworm is one of the worst enemies almost all root crops. But removing it from the garden is quite easy: you just need to moisten the potato tubers before planting in a pre-prepared tar solution (1 tablespoon of tar per bucket of water is enough - leave for an hour). If potatoes are planted by seed, then it is enough to spray the soil with the prepared solution.
• To combat cabbage fly. The same solution used to combat wireworms can also protect cruciferous crops from cabbage flies. You just need to water the sawdust, which mulches the soil with a prepared tar solution.

In the garden plot

Tar can be used not only to protect garden crops, but also fruit and berry trees in the garden plot.

Tree resin (tar) contains a huge amount useful substances, which help resist various diseases and pests. Birch tar is a unique natural gift that has long proven itself positively.

This natural remedy can resist various pests. It will protect anyone land plot no worse, and most likely better, than the most modern insecticidal preparations.

Colorado beetle

This particularly persistent pest destroys not only potatoes in its path, but also other vegetable crops – Bell pepper, eggplants. Spraying with a special solution will get rid of the beetle and will not harm the vegetable plantings.

The solution contains water (10 liters), birch tar (10 grams) and ordinary laundry soap (about 50 grams).

Onion fly

It's better to start with prevention. Before planting onions in the beds, they must be treated with tar. To do this, the bow is folded into a durable plastic bag, pour a little tar into it and mix thoroughly for half an hour. For one kilogram of onions you will need a tablespoon of birch tar.

Already planted onions, which have not been processed in advance, can be watered with a solution that includes water (ten liters), laundry soap (about 20 grams) and tar (1 tablespoon). It is recommended to carry out such watering twice with an interval of fifteen days.

Cabbage Butterfly

All types of cabbage suffer from this beautiful and delicate insect. Its larvae are capable of destroying the entire crop. It is necessary to fight the butterfly in time - before the larvae begin to lay. The smell of birch tar will prevent this pest from entering cabbage beds.

To combat cabbage, you will need ordinary small wooden pegs, unnecessary pieces of fabric and tar. The fabric is soaked in tar and wrapped around each peg. The pegs prepared in this way must be evenly placed throughout all the beds.

Wireworm

To rid root crops of this pest, it is necessary to treat the holes or directly the tubers (potatoes) before planting the seeds. Add 1 tablespoon of tar to a large ten-liter bucket of water, let it stand for 1 hour, and then spray the place where the seeds are planted. Potato tubers are completely dipped in the solution before planting.

codling moth

You can protect apple trees by spraying. Add 10 grams of tar and 30 grams of soap to a ten-liter bucket of water. This solution must be treated not only blooming trees, but also the soil around the trunk.

carrot fly

Twice during the summer (at the beginning and at the end) watering is carried out with a special solution prepared from water (10 liters), grated soap (about 20 grams) and birch tar (1 tablespoon).

Plum moth

To combat it, you will need to spray (at the end of spring) with a solution consisting of 10 grams of tar, 50 grams of soap and 10 liters of water.

Sprout fly

Mice

These rodents are capable of destroying not only root crops, but can also spoil fruit trees. It is recommended to mulch tree trunk circles sawdust, which were soaked in a water-tar solution (water - 10 liters, tar - 1 tablespoon).

Hares

The smell of birch resin will also repel these voracious rodents - pests. In the fall, it is necessary to treat each tree trunk with a specially prepared mixture.

Composition of the mixture: birch tar (50 grams), dry chalk (1 kg), mullein (1 large bucket) and water. The mixture should be medium thick.

Buy birch tar from any pharmacy chain and pests will avoid your garden.