How to deal with insect pests on sorrel

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Sorrel is one of the undemanding plants of garden crops. But it is vulnerable to pests. How to process sorrel, read in details.

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Often on sorrel you can see aphids, leaf-eating beetles, winter scoops. Pests can be combated with the help of herbal infusions or a soapy solution, so as not to use chemicals.

Because sorrel cannot be treated with wood ash, as ash deacidifies the soil, and sorrel likes to grow on acidic soils.< /p>

The leaf-eating beetle makes small holes all over the sorrel leaf. Eating leaves, he lays eggs on the reverse side of the leaf, from which new beetles hatch.

These beetles are afraid of such a plant as pyrethrum (a type of chamomile). You can plant pyrethrum next to a bed of sorrel. A tincture is also made from this plant to treat sorrel.