Unfortunately, not a single cultivated plant will last long in the garden without support and care. What misfortunes only do not pursue him: ailments, insects (not all of them are useful), persistent weeds, with the tenacity of savages conquering space. How much effort and patience is needed to get a decent harvest. Here, for example, crunchy cucumbers, lovely to the heart - diseases and pests chase them, starting from the moment of hatching from the seeds. But, despite all the difficulties of agricultural technology, not a single gardener has refused to grow them.
Over the centuries that people cultivate green pimply vegetables, they have learned to recognize the enemy and effectively resist him. In the treasury of knowledge turned out to be homemade recipes tested by ancestors, and new developments by chemists, and successful findings of bioprotection.
Diseases and pests of cucumbers are quite numerous. We will voice the most common. Pests include aphids. This tiny creature feeds on plant juices. If you wave your hand at him, then from your landings will remain dried blades. The enemy focuses on the underside of the sheet. The main methods of getting rid of it: spraying karbofos, moistening the leaves and dusting them with tobacco or shag, the destruction of weeds. Also take measures to scare away ants who like to graze their “dairy” aphids on your beds.
Another defendant in the list “Diseases and pests of cucumbers" is a
spider mite. Its appearance is found in cobwebs that entwine the lower part of the leaves, and the colony of the parasite is located in them. Traces of its activity are visible on the surface of the plant in the form of bright, as if discolored dots. With a lover, they suck out juices with the help of acaricides (special preparations aimed at the destruction of arachnids). Helps a decoction of feverfew, garlic. In greenhouses, they pay special attention to hydration. A tick is a big lover of a dry, hot climate. He does not like water procedures.
Do not mind eating cucumbers nutcrackers and sprout flies. The latter are fatal to young seedlings and seeds. Here, as in previous cases, an integrated approach shows good results. They always resort to it, no matter what diseases and pests of cucumbers are meant.
Suppose you notice angular oily spots on the leaves, which then dry out and become rusty brown, and then die off completely on the affected area. Having determined the ailment, and this is nothing but bacteriosis, you rush to fight it. But it would have been much easier to prevent the attack by simply removing the weeds, last year’s plantings and pickling the seeds before planting with a biofungicide.
The same preventive measures are used to prevent plants from passing through fungal diseases. And pests of cucumbers, and powdery mildew, and ascochitosis are prevented by simple methods: weed the beds in time, timely fertilizer, qualitatively prepared the soil for planting, cleaned up dead remains in the fall, sprayed the ground with special preparations. Trying to avoid problems is much more effective than solving them.
In nature, many processes are interconnected. Often one phenomenon pulls another. The same diseases and pests of cucumbers - a photo of the mosaic virus clearly demonstrates its detrimental effect on all parts of the vegetable crop, and aphids actively contribute to the wide spread of infection. That is why it is necessary to comprehensively monitor the health of your garden, not letting the situation go by itself.