Tobacco dust is a natural and highly effective insecticide, the use of which is successful in controlling various insect pests. They are afraid of tobacco slugs, bugs, flies, larvae of various insects that harm agricultural crops.
Tobacco dust, the use of which is quite effective, is also used in crop production, beekeeping and gardening. It is considered an excellent fertilizer that enhances microbiological activity and soil nutrition. Outwardly, it is a dust that has a brown tint.
Tobacco dust properties
It is very important that the drug is a biologically pure material. It does not contain microorganisms that can cause harm, and is completely safe for any application. There is no weed seed in tobacco dust, and with prolonged use, the soil does not accumulate any harmful substances. Due to the content of phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium - mineralized types of trace elements - tobacco dust improves the nutrition of absolutely all types of plants. It also enhances the agrochemical and physico-biological properties of the soil as a whole.
Where is tobacco dust used?
As mentioned above, the list of applications is quite wide.
- The main objective of the drug is considered to be fertilizer of absolutely any garden, agricultural and greenhouse crops without prior preparation.
- The use of tobacco dust in conjunction with mineral fertilizers during soil re-cultivation in combination of 20-40 tons per 1 ha is widespread.
- It is used for sowing winter and dry crops in combination 4 tons per 1 ha.
- Ornamental crops and fruit plantations are planted after fertilizing with tobacco dust in the amount of up to five kilograms per planting hole.
- Dust is used in the preparation of lawns. You can spray up to three kilograms of the drug on already prepared soil, walk carefully with a rake and pour. After this procedure, a general sowing is carried out.
- It is recommended to fertilize with the drug and potted plants, flowers. Proportions are taken 1: 1: 1 with soil and clean sand.
- Fields with crop rotation are fertilized with the product every three years.
Tobacco Dust
It is good to deal with insects that spoil the planting, tobacco infusion. To prepare it, you should take 500 g of the drug, pour into a container, pour ten liters of water and insist for two days. After that, everything is filtered through cheesecloth so that the spray bottle does not become clogged. You can supplement the mixture with a soap solution from laundry soap (50 g). Soap will contribute to the adhesion of the solution to the leaves of plants. There is an infusion against pests such as:
- aphid;
- thrips;
- a tinker;
- sawfly larva;
- caterpillars.
You can pollinate tobacco dust with planting. To do this, tobacco dust and slaked lime (or sunflower ash) are taken, mixed in a one to one proportion and scattered on the desired territory. Thus destroyed:
- slugs (up to 30 g per meter);
- fleas (three times a month);
- other pests (three times in a week);
- onion flies (10 g per meter, once in the summer months).
You can fumigate the greenhouses by burning a mixture on the baking sheet - 500 g per meter. The method kills aphids, thrips, whiteflies. Fruit and berry bushes and trees are fumigated against tinkers and aphids after flowering during the period of insect winging. Combustible garbage and chips are put in a bucket, and when the fire flames up, they add up to a kilogram of tobacco dust. They smoke for half an hour in calm weather. It should be clarified that smoke does no harm to bees.