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Large peach aphid control measures. Peach (greenhouse) aphid (Myzodes persicae). Video "How to treat peach leaf curl"

Aphids on peach are not uncommon. This is the most common pest that forms entire colonies. Aphids are large peach, black, green, blood. In this article, we will look at the causes of the appearance of the pest, and also figure out how to effectively deal with aphids.

In order to detect a pest in time, you need to carefully examine the entire tree - from stems to leaves. Black aphids are easy to detect, as they are characterized large clusters. If you notice on the stems and leaves with reverse side black dots, it's aphids. Often the buds are covered with honeydew - aphid secretions. Signs of aphids damage are also yellow, twisted leaves with spots, inside it is easy to notice small brown and green fleas. Dead and dried tops are evidence of the presence of aphids on a peach.

After an aphid attack, the yield of a peach tree decreases, it becomes more susceptible to frost. Once an enemy is discovered, it must be destroyed. There are many different ways to control pests. So, let's figure out how to deal with aphids on peaches.

Which processing method to choose

Agricultural technology

Often, gardeners are advised not to immediately resort to chemicals, but to try available agricultural practices. So, first of all, we remove all the weeds, remove all the root greens. Next, we clean the old bark on the trunk and branches. We connect the hose and remove the aphids from the foliage with a stream of water until the bloody color disappears. An excellent remedy is to plant spicy herbs around a peach or nectarine.

Mechanical methods can be applied if peach small size. In this case, you can knock down the aphids with a broom, brush, cut off the foliage with signs of damage and burn it. Be careful, burn foliage should be outside garden plot. In autumn, ash can be sprinkled around the trunk and poured with boiling water. Ash, getting into the roots with water, makes them bitter, which repels the pest. In addition, boiling water destroys the larvae. For the next season, plant dill and mint nearby, then the pest will shun peach trees.

Chemicals

If, nevertheless, to fight aphids on a peach, you had to resort to "heavy artillery" - chemicals - then remember that poisonous properties stored for 20 days, so it is impossible to process the fruits in the period close to harvesting. You need to fight the pest in early spring, until the leaves have blossomed or immediately when the tree has blossomed. The tree is sprayed with insecticides. These drugs cause paralysis in aphids, and within 3 days they die. The most effective, according to gardeners, are Aktara, DNOK, Konfidor, Karbofos. If you have done the treatment well, then the result will be evident in a week.

Folk methods

Fight aphids folk remedies possible at any time in the development of peach culture. To the most effective recipes can be attributed:

• infusion onion peel. The husk is poured with water and boiled for 20 minutes, covered with a lid and left for 5 days. Then they filter, add laundry soap, pour it into a spray bottle and spray the plant with it. It is not recommended to dilute the decoction with water;
• garlic infusion. Grind a glass of garlic and pour 1 liter cold water insist for 24 hours. Next, add 100 g of laundry soap, dilute with water and use;
• spicy mixture. Mix equal amounts of cinnamon, red and black pepper, mustard, salt, soda and wood ash. IN warm water dilute 200 g of soap, add a dry mixture there and pour 9 liters of water. Spraying is carried out twice with an interval of one week;
• tobacco tincture. 200 g of tobacco powder are dissolved in 10 liters of water, infused for 3 days, mixed with soapy water.

How and when to process

Be careful when using chemicals so as not to “burn” the tree along with the insects. A young tree may be too receptive to some compounds, so try spraying your chosen liquid on one branch. Wait a day, if the type of the branch does not change, then protective measure can be carried out throughout the tree.

If aphids have already appeared on a peach, and you are thinking about how to process it, first give preference to alternative means that will cause minimal damage to the tree. TO chemicals resort in case of emergency.

After all the foliage has fallen from the tree, the plant must be sprayed with Bordeaux liquid. Immediately before flowering, it would be good to spray with Tizol, and after flowering, again with Bordeaux liquid. Also make sure that Aktofit is always available in your first aid kit. It is applied along with laundry soap, How ambulance during aphid attacks.

Video "How to treat peach leaf curl"

From this video you will learn how to treat peach leaf curl.

Growing peach on your own plot is not the easiest task. Not only that, not every region can be suitable in terms of climatic conditions, so also a variety of misfortunes will periodically try to leave the gardener without a crop. And to provide the tree healthy life, you need to know all the possible troubles in person. Fight against diseases and pests - important step for a healthy, bountiful harvest.

Diseases and pests of the peach tree

Peach is characterized by all the main stone fruit diseases - leaf curl, fruit rot (moniliosis), powdery mildew, cytosporosis and clasterosporosis. In addition, sometimes it is attacked by pests - aphids, eastern codling moth, fruit mites, fruit moths, weevil. The gardener needs to react in time and get rid of problems.

The peach tree is a good target for diseases and pests, so you should not sit back, even if a variety resistant to many adversities grows on the site.

Table: disease-resistant peach varieties

Photo gallery of peach diseases and pests

Fruit mite sucks the juices from the tree Curly hair can leave a peach without leaves Aphids multiply quickly and cause great damage to the plant
Eastern codling moth is one of the worst pests Powdery mildew is easily rubbed off with a finger at first, while it looks like white felt Fruit rot spoils the crop and spreads quickly in the area

Peach diseases and their causes + photo

All diseases that can be encountered when caring for a peach are conventionally divided into three groups - diseases of the leaves, trunk and fruits. Of course, this does not mean that this or that ailment affects only the fruits or the trunk, but it manifests itself most clearly on a specific part of the tree.

leaf diseases

Clusterosporiasis

Clasterosporiasis is one of the most common and unpleasant diseases that affects almost the entire tree - leaves, buds, flowers, ovaries and shoots. The disease manifests itself most clearly and most noticeably on the leaves, on which brown spots with a dark red border appear - the foci of fungus damage. Damaged leaf tissue dies and falls out, leaving a hole. It is because of this that klesterosporiosis got its second name - perforated spotting.

Klyasterosporiosis is called perforated spotting, because. leaf spot disease

The fungus, which is the causative agent of the disease, penetrates into the tissues of the peach tree and forms a mycelium there, which gradually penetrates into the cells of the plant and causes their death. The problem is that hiding on shoots, flower buds and affected branches, it easily survives the winter and begins to spread to healthy parts of the tree when positive temperatures occur. It is important here to detect the symptoms of the disease in time and rid the peach of those parts that have already suffered. That is why early spring pruning, which is carried out with the onset of warm weather, plays such an important role as both prevention and treatment. Sections after treatment are disinfected with a solution of lime with the addition of copper or iron sulphate.

In the process of treatment, such well-known drugs as Hom and Meteor are used. Spraying is carried out three times - during the swelling of the kidneys, as well as before and after flowering.

Curly

Leaf curl is also not a gift - in a wet, rainy and protracted spring, the disease gets every chance of successful development and reproduction, attacking primarily the leaves. As soon as the leaves bloom, it will already be possible to see on them, in addition to the usual Green colour also purple. A little later, a border of the same color will appear. After a week or a little more, a gray coating can already be seen on the back of the sheet. The disease affects the shoots, and after a while the leaves curl and fall off, leaving the branches bare. At the first frost, the shoots are doomed to death. A tree affected by curliness almost ceases to bear fruit, and those rare specimens that did appear have a damaged pericarp.

Curly - fungal disease, which is one of the most common

To avoid yield problems, diseased shoots should be pruned before the start of the sporulation period. In autumn, before the rains begin, the so-called blue treatment is carried out with preparations containing copper. In the spring, the preparations "Skor" and "Horus", as well as "Hom" are used. Looks like this simple circuit so: first, during the growing season, the peach is sprayed with copper oxychloride, and after 8-12 days, Horus or Skor is used.

Video: peach leaf curl, control methods

powdery mildew

Powdery mildew is one of the most dangerous diseases affecting shoots, leaves and fruits. It is easy enough to calculate white coating, which in initial stage can be erased with a finger, but then it coarsens, turns brown and turns into dark spots. Shoots touched by powdery mildew lag behind in development, are damaged and die. Thanks to its sharp suckers, the mycelium successfully sucks out everything it needs from the tree. nutrients. The wind facilitates the easy movement of spores and spread to large territories. The disease is especially severe during drought.

Powdery mildew quickly spreads over the site and captures shoots, leaves and fruits

In order to prevent the disease from developing, the affected shoots, leaves and fruits (still belonging to the tree or already fallen) are removed. As a therapeutic measure, "Topsin" or "Topaz" is used at the end of flowering.

If insecticides are added to these drugs, the effectiveness of the treatment will increase.

trunk ailments

Cytosporosis

Cytosporosis is a fungal disease that affects the bark of a tree. More precisely, the bast is a layer located between the bark and the wood, which acquires a dark brown color during illness. You can detect this disease by withering, drying tops of the shoots, as well as brown smudges and spots on the bark. From the tops of the shoots, cytosporosis descends, capturing the skeletal branches and trunk. After the defeat of the latter, the tree will be under serious threat.

Cytosporosis is a fungal disease, but unlike fruit rot or powdery mildew settles under the bark

Branches damaged by the disease are immediately removed. Shortening occurs to a length of 0.8 - 1.5 m, sometimes the entire skeletal branch is removed, but on condition that not a single millimeter of diseased bast remains below the cut point, otherwise cytosporosis will not stop. Cut parts of a tree, as well as dried trees, must be burned immediately or taken out as far as possible. The first option looks preferable, since the infection travels long distances without any problems, and there is no guarantee that after a while the disease will not return to your site.

Since cytosporosis primarily affects weakened trees, it is necessary to observe full complex agrotechnical measures, such as timely (and, most importantly, correct) pruning, regular watering, timely wound treatment, etc.

A good means of preventing and treating cytosporosis is 3% Bordeaux liquid (lime per 10 liters of water) used for spraying in early spring(before leafing) and autumn (during or after leaf fall).

Fruit diseases

Moniliosis

Fruit rot or moniliosis, monilial burn - all these are the names of one disease caused by the same fungus, which affects flowers, leaves and branches during flowering, and later fruits. The monilial burn got such a peculiar name, because the leaves and fruits affected by the scourge look like burnt ones. The disease manifests itself especially clearly on the fruits on which brown spots that deform them. These spots spread over the fruits, and light gray or gray pads of spores appear on them, forming concentric circles. The wind easily transfers spores to other trees, and if the weather is cool, damp, the disease spreads rapidly across the site, affecting almost all, without exception, fruit plants.

Moniliosis causes the fruits to rot on the branches up to their complete wrinkling and drying.

As a preventive measure, periodic pruning of the tree is carried out to prevent thickening of the crown. The parts of the plant found affected by moniliosis are removed. Prior to flowering, they are treated with the Chorus preparation. After flowering, "Topaz" is used, and after it - "Topsin". Thanks to this approach, not only the pathogen is destroyed, but also its carriers, which are oriental codling moths, geese, weevils and boucars.

Fallen fruits damaged by moniliosis are immediately collected and carried far beyond the site, and in the fall they are removed from the trees.

Table: peach diseases, treatment and prevention

Pests and their control

Aphid

Aphids are perhaps the most frequent intruder on peach trees. It settles on young shoots, sticking around them and sucking out the juices vital to the plant. The seedlings begin to hurt, dry, the leaves crumble. While the number of aphids is small - it is easy to crush it with gloved hands right on the spot, but if you show slowness, this pest will significantly increase its population, and then you will have to resort to potent pesticides, since weaker solutions will no longer have the desired effect.

Peach aphids can be green, orange, and yellow - the color changes, the essence remains

Weevils

Weevils damage buds, buds and flowers by gnawing out stamens, pistils and petals. Sometimes it spreads to young leaves. Small holes are created in the fruits for oviposition. They are carriers of the main fungal diseases of peach.

The surest action would be chemical treatment tree before the buds swell. Good trapping belts are applied above the trunk, removing damaged buds (these usually show a brown top) and removing exfoliating and dead bark. Whitewashing the trunk with lime also makes a good contribution to the fight against weevils.

Weevils damage buds and spread fungal diseases

Ticks

Ticks are known for their ability, like aphids, to suck out all the useful and nutritious substances from a tree. They successfully winter in the bark at the base of large branches and in the warm period are able to weaken the plant so much that its shoots stop developing, dry out, the yield decreases significantly, the tree stops bearing fruit, and the leaves lose color and fall off.

Regular peach pruning, keeping the trunk circle clean, whitewashing the trunk and installing trapping belts help to cope with the tick. But an even greater effect is achieved when using drugs such as Fitoverm, Neoron, Apollo and Karate.

The fruit mite indiscriminately attacks any fruit trees, including peach

fruit moth

Fruit moth delivers the most trouble in the form of a caterpillar, which in the spring is taken for buds, and then for young shoots. Since the pest gnaws out their core, the shoots begin to wither and die off, the tree may shed its leaves. One caterpillar is capable of destroying 5-6 shoots, which is already significant damage. IN adulthood caterpillars climb into dry leaves, bark or earth in the trunk circle.

Moth-damaged shoots are cut and burned. The same is done with carrion and root shoots. A good result is achieved with regular loosening of the soil and the imposition of trapping belts on the trunk and skeletal branches.

Fruit moth damages shoots, causing the tree to stop developing

Eastern codling moth

The eastern codling moth hibernates on damaged shoots, in cracks in the bark, and also under fallen leaves. Caterpillars feast on young shoots, small ovaries, and even peach pits that have not yet had time to harden. The codling moth, like aphids, is a carrier of various fungal diseases, including moniliosis, so you need to get rid of it immediately.

This is how peach fruits slightly damaged by the eastern codling moth look like

Table: pest control methods

A peach, as a fruit tree, is subject to the same diseases as an apple tree, pear, plum, and others, therefore, in some ways, measures to combat ailments in all cases turn out to be similar. The list of pests is somewhat different for peach, but in this case there are universal means which can be used for most fruit trees. By observing the indicated dosage and carrying out timely prevention, as well as acquiring varieties resistant to certain diseases and pests, you can avoid problems during cultivation and achieve a large harvest every year.

This pest is also found on apricots, almonds, plums, cherry plums, blackthorns, cherries, cherries, quince, apple trees, but it prefers peach.

Aphid colonies are located on trunks and on the underside of skeletal branches.

They suck the juice from the bark, as a result, the growth and fruiting of fruit trees is inhibited, and the yield is reduced.

The development cycle of the pest is monoecious. Larvae hatch from overwintered eggs in April, at the beginning of flowering of the host plant. Over time, they transform into viviparous founding females, which give birth to several generations of aphids that reproduce parthenogenetically.

The high population density is established in July-August.

Aphids stick around boles and the lower part of the branches. With a strong colonization, individuals secrete sticky substances, from which the bark becomes wet.

Abundant excrement flows to the ground, covering it in the projection of the tree crown with dark spots.

In June, winged female settlers appear in aphid colonies along with wingless virgins, populating healthy trees.

Wingless individuals reach a length of 3.5-5 mm, they have a pear-shaped body, matte gray or brown, the head and spots on the back are black, and the legs are orange-yellow.

In winged individuals, the body length is 3.5-4.5 mm, the head and chest are black, the abdomen is brown or gray-brown, the front wings are brown. Flying from tree to tree, winged females give birth to larvae of ever new colonies.

Behind growing season in the conditions of the south it develops up to ten generations. The entire development cycle takes place on one culture and ends with the formation of an amphigonal (oviparous) generation.

In September-November, amphigenic females develop in the colonies. Males rarely appear and females lay unfertilized eggs, placing them on the bark.

After laying eggs, the females die. Freshly laid eggs are large, red, in a few days they become black and shiny.

How to deal with peach aphids?

In order to successfully protect trees colonized by large peach aphids, it is necessary to eradicate wintering pests.

Before bud break, trees are sprayed with ZOV, 76% a.e. (consumption rate - 0.6 liters per 20 liters of water).

After the flowering of fruit trees, one of the pyrethroid insecticides is used against hatching larvae - arrivo, 25% a.e., bliskavka, 10% a.e., decis pro, 25% w.g., karate zeon, 050 microns. s., or drugs of the neonicotinoid group - confidor, 20% v.r.k., confidor maxi, 70% v.g., calypso, 480 k.s., mospilan, r.p.

The intervals between treatments with pyrethroid preparations are 14 days, and with neonicotinoid preparations - 21 days.

Our advice:

When protecting fruit trees with chemicals, pay attention to the period of the last treatment before harvest, which is indicated on the package.

In garden plots of small size, natural phytoncidal plants with insecticidal properties can be used to protect trees from aphids.

Tobacco dust has an afidocidal effect (0.15-0.2 kg of tobacco or tobacco dust is poured into 10 liters hot water and insist 2 days, add 40 g of laundry soap before spraying).

Against aphids, the treatment of trees with the biopreparation Aktofit, 0.2% ee, 40-60 ml per 10 liters of water is effective.

Our advice:

Leaves and inflorescences of elderberry are detrimental to aphids (0.8-1 kg of leaves and flowers of elderberry are poured into 10 liters of water, insisted for 3 days, 40 g of soap are added and sprayed).

"Chamomile" method of protection against peach aphids

For the same purpose, medicinal chamomile, Caucasian or Dalmatian is used. Raw materials are harvested during the flowering period.

Leaves and flowers are collected from chamomile, 1 kg of mass is poured into 10 liters of water heated to 60-70 ° C, insisted for 12 hours. 10 liters of water are added to the freshly prepared solution.

The whole plant is taken from the Dalmatian chamomile, only the inflorescence from the Caucasian chamomile. The crushed raw materials (200 g) are poured into 5 liters of water, insisted for 12 hours.

The infusion is drained, and the raw materials are again poured into 5 liters of water and again infused for 12 hours. After straining, the solutions are mixed and used immediately.

The intervals between treatments with tinctures or decoctions from plant materials are shorter than with chemical preparations.

Our advice:

Spraying with natural-based phytoncides is repeated after 5-7 days, trying to apply the working solution both on the upper and lower sides of the branches and stems.

We use laundry soap!

In home gardening, other environmentally friendly protective agents are also used against aphids.

Laundry soap is ground on a grater and dissolved in soft water (rain, river, pond). For 10 liters of water, 200-300 g of soap are consumed.

Soda solution against aphids

Aphids are destroyed by washing the shoots and stems inhabited by it with a 0.5% solution of soda ash with the addition of 0.5% soap (50 g of each agent per 10 l of water).

Igor Shevchuk, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences
© Magazine "Ogorodnik"
Photo: pixabay.com

What are the ways to fight

Way of struggle: agrotechnical

Fighting with chemicals

Folk recipes to help

The best remedy is prevention

Conclusion

So, aphid is small insect, no larger than 3 mm. It is worth highlighting that the most widespread aphid of the following species:

• blood;
• aphid large peach;
• green;
• and black.

As a rule, if an aphid has settled on a peach tree, then the gardener will see the following:

• the bloody appearance of aphids is very visually visible, since individuals tend to accumulate;
• if aphids attack, then dark dots will be visible on the back of the foliage;
• peach buds will be covered with secretions of this insect;
• the tops of the pagons may begin to dry out and then die off;
• spots first appear on the leaves, then they dry and curl;
• in the very thick of the tree you can see the so-called fleas of a green or grayish color.

If an aphid attacks, then the culture completely stops developing fully, begins to weaken, while the yield decreases several times. Moreover, a diseased tree loses its resistance to frost.

What are the ways to fight

• agrotechnical and mechanical methods;
• fight with chemicals;
• folk recipes.

Each of these methods can good result. Moreover, seasoned gardeners strongly recommend not to resort to drugs of chemical origin at first, but to try to overcome the invasion with natural and affordable means.

Way of struggle: agrotechnical

As already described above, before arming yourself with a heavy arsenal and attacking uninvited guests, you can try several agricultural techniques that successfully help fight a small enemy, namely:

• destroy all weeds growing around the peach;
• cut the entire root thicket;
• clean the remnants of the old bark, on the trunks and on the skeletal branches;
• using a jet of water supplied from a hose, remove all aphids placed on the foliage;
• plant green manure and herbs around the peach.

As a rule, these agricultural practices give a valid result. If it was not possible to solve the problem using these methods, then we arm ourselves mechanical methods and let's start fighting.

It is worth emphasizing that mechanical methods aphid control can only be used if the tree is relatively small. So, how to destroy aphids, ways:

• knock down aphids with a broom;
• destroy with a brush;
• we tear off all the affected foliage and burn it behind the site.

Well, with the onset of autumn, we begin to dig the zone where peaches are planted. Then sprinkle well. trunk circle ash and top with boiling water. These methods have the following properties:

Fighting with chemicals

If the above methods did not help, and precious time was lost, you should resort to heavy artillery in the form of insecticides. First of all, it is worth emphasizing that such drugs retain their toxic properties for 20 days. Therefore, in the case when the aphid attacked before the harvest itself, it is strictly forbidden to process with these means.

Of course, processing with chemicals is not desirable. But if it so happened that the army the most dangerous insect was noticed too late, then only such funds can save your crop.

Well, as for the name of the drugs, today there are a lot various means, among which are the following:

1. If aphids attack during bud formation, use Confidor.
2. In the event that aphids appeared during the formation of fruits, the Bi-58 solution will become indispensable. The only thing to keep in mind this remedy It is strictly forbidden to use during the ripening of peaches.
3. If the aphid of the black variety attacks, then Phosphamide will help the gardener.
4. Well, for the destruction of overwintered individuals, a remedy called DNOC solution is recommended.

At the same time, always remember one simple rule, it is not recommended to constantly process with the same tool.

Folk recipes to help

So, what are the ways to destroy aphids with improvised means:

Onion skin tincture

Then, the tightly sealed mixture is infused for two days and the peach is sprayed with the finished infusion. This procedure repeat after two days. But as a rule, after the first spraying, the aphid dies or disappears from the tree.

Laundry soap

Pepper

And third effective method control aphids called pepper platter. To do this, take a pack of red and black ground pepper and a pack of dry mustard. Everyone is well mixed, just do not forget to put on a mask and goggles in advance. The finished powder is poured with a bucket of water and everything is thoroughly stirred.

Then, the resulting solution is sprayed onto the tree. From such a tool, aphids will begin to die almost instantly.

The best remedy is prevention

In order not to look for options to combat this insect, regularly spend preventive treatments in the front garden. To do this, use the following processing schedule:

• after all the foliage has fallen, the peach culture is processed Bordeaux mixture strictly according to the instructions;
• before flowering, peach culture will need treatment with tizol;
• after flowering, spray the tree with Bordeaux liquid.

It is worth noting that most gardeners are advised to keep a drug such as Actofita in a green medicine cabinet. It is mainly used together with laundry soap as emergency care during aphid attacks.

Conclusion

And another tip from experienced gardeners: in order for the fight against aphids to be effective, before choosing a specific remedy, evaluate the damage caused to these insects. In this case, you can choose the right tool and minimize losses.

In order to detect a pest in time, you need to carefully examine the entire tree - from stems to leaves. Black aphids are easy to spot, as they are characterized by large aggregations. If you notice black dots on the stems and leaves on the reverse side, then this is an aphid. Often the buds are covered with honeydew - aphid secretions. Signs of aphids damage are also yellow, twisted leaves with spots, inside it is easy to notice small brown and green fleas. Dead and dried tops are evidence of the presence of aphids on a peach.

After an aphid attack, the yield of a peach tree decreases, it becomes more susceptible to frost. Once an enemy is discovered, it must be destroyed. There are many different ways to control pests. So, let's figure out how to deal with aphids on peaches.

Often, gardeners are advised not to immediately resort to chemicals, but to try available agricultural practices. So, first of all, we remove all the weeds, remove all the root greens. Next, we clean the old bark on the trunk and branches. We connect the hose and remove the aphids from the foliage with a stream of water until the bloody color disappears. An excellent remedy is to plant spicy herbs around a peach or nectarine.

Mechanical methods can be applied if the peach tree is small. In this case, you can knock down the aphids with a broom, brush, cut off the foliage with signs of damage and burn it. Be careful, you should burn the foliage outside the garden plot. In autumn, ash can be sprinkled around the trunk and poured with boiling water. Ash, getting into the roots with water, makes them bitter, which repels the pest. In addition, boiling water destroys the larvae. For the next season, plant dill and mint nearby, then the pest will shun peach trees.

If, nevertheless, to fight aphids on a peach, you had to resort to "heavy artillery" - chemicals - then remember that the poisonous properties persist for 20 days, so it is impossible to process the fruits in the period close to harvesting. You need to fight the pest in early spring, until the leaves have blossomed or immediately when the tree has blossomed. The tree is sprayed with insecticides. These drugs cause paralysis in aphids, and within 3 days they die. The most effective, according to gardeners, are Aktara, DNOK, Konfidor, Karbofos. If you have done the treatment well, then the result will be evident in a week.

You can fight aphids with folk remedies at any time in the development of peach culture. The most effective recipes include:

• infusion of onion peel. The husk is poured with water and boiled for 20 minutes, covered with a lid and left for 5 days. Then they filter, add laundry soap, pour it into a spray bottle and spray the plant with it. It is not recommended to dilute the decoction with water;
• garlic infusion. Grind a glass of garlic and pour 1 liter of cold water, insist for 24 hours. Next, add 100 g of laundry soap, dilute with water and use;
• spicy mixture. Mix equal amounts of cinnamon, red and black pepper, mustard, salt, soda and wood ash. 200 g of soap are diluted in warm water, a dry mixture is added there and 9 liters of water are poured. Spraying is carried out twice with an interval of one week;
• tobacco tincture. 200 g of tobacco powder are dissolved in 10 liters of water, infused for 3 days, mixed with soapy water.

Be careful when using chemicals so as not to “burn” the tree along with the insects. A young tree may be too receptive to some compounds, so try spraying your chosen liquid on one branch. Wait a day, if the type of branch does not change, then a protective measure can be carried out throughout the tree.

If aphids have already appeared on a peach, and you are thinking about how to process it, first give preference to alternative means that will cause minimal damage to the tree. Use chemicals if absolutely necessary.

After all the foliage has fallen from the tree, the plant must be sprayed with Bordeaux liquid. Immediately before flowering, it would be good to spray with Tizol, and after flowering, again with Bordeaux liquid. Also make sure that Aktofit is always available in your first aid kit. It is used together with laundry soap as an ambulance for aphid attacks.

From this video you will learn how to treat peach leaf curl.