Hold your defense! Not only plants love warmth, but pests too

To prevent late blight on tomatoes, use various protective measures, including this one. Cut copper wire with a diameter of 1-2 mm into 1 cm pieces and stick them into the side of the tomato stems at a height of 15-20 cm from the ground. Copper ions will save tomatoes from this disease.

Take care to protect cabbage plantings from pests. Insecticides are available at retail outlets, buy them. And pile up plants of mid-season and late varieties higher, preventing the cabbage fly from laying eggs at the roots. This crop likes frequent loosening, watering (every other day) and nitrogen fertilizing, especially if the plants are weak (20 g of fertilizer per bucket of water with the addition of 2 g of boron). You can also feed cabbage with urea (15-20 g per bucket of water with the addition of 2 g of boron). It is a good idea to water the plants with a pink solution of potassium permanganate.

Strawberries are being harvested, so any use of insecticides to combat pests on plantations is excluded. You can treat the berry bush with Intavir, Actellic or Iskra only after the garden strawberry has given up its entire harvest. By the way, Actellic works against both whitefly and spider mite.

Remove excess shoots from the vines in greenhouses, including those that shade the trusses. Leave 2-3 leaves for each of them, remove the rest. This crop needs sun, generous watering, and treatment with Bordeaux mixture. Early grape varieties already have well-formed trusses. Try to make sure that sunlight falls on them. Combine watering with clean water and fertilizing the grapes in the grooves, then fill them with soil so that the moisture does not evaporate quickly.

Cherries and plums are often affected by a fungal disease called moniliosis. Spraying trees with copper oxychloride (40 g per bucket of water) will protect against it. If monilial burn occurs, trees should be mulched with peat chips or some other available material so that harmful spores do not spread around and affect other plants. An adult tree will require up to 5 liters of such a solution, a young tree - 1 - 2 liters.

Treat sea buckthorn with iron sulfate according to the instructions.

Leaf beetles, sawflies, leaf rollers appear on mock orange, gooseberry, currant, and viburnum Buldenezh. The biological product Lepidocide will help in the fight against them. Dilute 30 g in a bucket of water and spray the plants well.

To avoid losing your pear and apple harvest, treat the trees with Bordeaux mixture or actellic, then there will be no wormholes on the fruit.

Slugs are appearing, so cut plastic bottles in half and turn them into bait for the pests. Bury the containers level with the soil and pour kvass with added salt into them. The smell of the drink will attract the pests, and they will be trapped.

Valentina Kosenkova, agronomist.

Question - Answer "Hedgehog" hairstyle

• How often should you mow your lawn?

I. Samosvat, city of Korsakov.

The lawn should be mowed once a week, but not too short - the grass should not burn out. Leave 5 - 7 cm, then feed the plants with nitrogen fertilizer, this will give the greenery density and brightness. Sow grass on the bald spots of the lawn. In July, shoots will appear quickly.

There are lovers of shade

• There is an empty, dark corner behind the summer house. What can be planted there?

Y. Filimonova, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Islands of pretty greenery in such a place will be created by ground cover plants - periwinkle and bugleweed. If a little sunlight gets to that corner, plant astilbe, columbine, Solomon's seal, dicentra or arborescens hydrangea.

Science recommends

The Sakhalin Research Institute of Agriculture offers the population new varieties of honeysuckle adapted to the island climate.

"Bakcharsky Velikan" and "Pride of Bakchar" are mid-late ripening varieties. The bushes are medium-sized, up to one and a half meters. The berries are large, about 5 cm long, sweet and sweet and sour. The yield is high, winter hardiness is excellent. The varieties are resistant to diseases and pests. Self-sterile, pollinated by simultaneously flowering varieties of honeysuckle.

"Blue Banana" is a mid-late productive variety. The bush is fast-growing, spreading, up to one and a half meters in height. The berries are up to 3 cm long and weigh up to 4 g. The pulp is dense, juicy, without bitterness, with an original sweet taste. The fruits do not crumble. For cross-pollination, it is advisable to plant several varieties nearby.

"Northern Buran" is a Canadian winter-hardy variety with late and extended fruiting. The berries are large, up to 3.5 cm long and 1 cm wide. The bush is dense, spreading, up to one and a half meters high.

"Northern Beauty" is a late-ripening honeysuckle variety. The bush is short, fast-growing, spherical. Fruits weigh up to 3.5 g, elastic, fleshy with very thick skin.

"Heart of a giant" is a mid-late, high-yielding variety with excellent taste. The bush is up to one and a half meters wide. The berries are large, about 3 cm long. The pulp is dense, juicy, sweet, aromatic.

Institute address: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Novoaleksandrovsk settlement, lane. Gorky, 22.