Having your own fruit trees , whether it ’s just the one or a miniature orchard taking up your yard , can be a rewarding and dispirited - labor experience . All you must do is check that they stay put moire and fertilized and you may look a nice harvest of fruit once a yr ; regrettably that ’s around the same time all the insects show up . There are a few home remedies you could spray your yield tree with that wo n’t harm the come crop .
Fruit Fly Remedy
Boil two quart of water in a skunk with two chopped cloves of Allium sativum and five chopped chilli pepper or habanero peppers . Once it ’s boiled , get it sit for a full twenty-four hour period before sieve out the solid state and adding a cupful of white vinegar . Spraying this over the fruit Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree drive back fruit fly in several ways . They are force back by the crude oil in garlic . The capsaicin in white pepper is the precise same chemical by which pain sensory receptor in the body are touch off . It does the same affair for fruit flies and causes extreme pain when introduced to the fly ’s mucose membranes .
Vinegar is acidulent enough to have irritation but not acid enough to harm the tree diagram . Not only that , but ail can help protect against bacterial and fungal contagion to the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .
Aphid Remedy
Aphids secrete oil , which protects them from pesticide and impinge themselves along the stems of yield trees in society to consume the tree ’s wet . Grate a cake of Georgia home boy into a great deal of stewing urine . Add one teaspoonful of hand dishwashing soap and three teaspoons of cooking oil colour . Include two teaspoon of acid pop and then set aside the mixing to chill before spraying it across the yield trees .
It ’s not recommended that the spray come into unmediated contact with the yield , as it has a strong aerofoil tension that will keep the nebuliser from drip off the fruit , depriving it of line . This is essentially the same way the spray works on aphid . The soap cuts through the oil they secrete and the other fabric are designed to cling to the aphid , obnubilate its breathing pores until it suffocates to death .
Leaf Curl Disease Remedy
In a congius jug of water dissolve 1/4 pound of slaked lime , also known as calcium hydroxide . convulsion 1/4 pound of pig sulfate fertilizer into an old windsock , stocking , or porous bag and inebriate in the jug overnight . Remove the bagful and dilute the depicted object of the jug with another gallon of water before spraying over the tree . This is what is know as a Bordeaux miscellany , a traditional antifungal historically used to combat fungal infections in vineyards . The ions of the bull sulfate , having been freed by the lime in the solution , attach themselves to enzymes within the fungus . By doing so , the solution stops the fungus from propagating .
