3. Mustard powder
The pungent taste and smell of the product discourages pests. Dry mustard is safe for the environment, humans and animals, so it can be used even during the ripening period of berries.
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Thoroughly dissolve 100 g of mustard powder in 3 litres of warm water. Pour the solution into a sprayer and properly treat strawberry bushes, as well as the soil on the bed.
4. iodine
Another drugstore remedy that can be used to fight weevil, regardless of the stage of vegetation of strawberries.
Dilute 2 teaspoons of alcoholic iodine solution (5%) in 10 litres of water. Thoroughly spray the bushes with the resulting liquid, and also treat the soil around.
5. Wood ash
Dry ash will help chase away the weevil, and the potassium in its composition will come in handy for strawberries to fill juicy berries.
This method of pest control is probably the fastest and easiest. It is enough to sprinkle wood ash on the surface of the soil around the strawberries, as well as powder the bushes themselves.
6. Special preparations
Insecticides are suitable for fighting weevils. Unlike folk remedies, they are more effective and, as a rule, allow you to get rid of uninvited guests on strawberries after a single application.
