How to deal with garden pests: no chemicals will be needed

"Doctor of Agronomy, beekeeper Algirdas Amšiejus shared tips on how to get rid of garden and vegetable pests in natural ways. He explained how pest traps can be useful and how easy it is to make them.

This is the best way to destroy fruit tree pests, says A. Amšiejus, talking about insect traps in the garden.

"For example, the apple fruit borer - it gnaws the apple, when it is ripe, then on the branch goes down to the ground to overwinter. Turns into a pupa, and in the spring a butterfly. Traps can be installed for such: you take 20 cm of corrugated paper, the kind from which cardboard boxes are made, wrap the trunk, thicker branches, wrap it with wire and leave it. This should be done at the end of June.

During June, July, August, all those pests that gnaw leaves, fruits, go to the ground to winter, and you make a trap for them closer to the ground and they land there, and you collect them all", he says.

According to him, this is a great and natural way that a person who does not want to use chemicals can do.

"If you do this one year and the next, you agree with the neighbors that they should also make such traps, this is a benefit. If after that three out of a hundred plums are wormy, then what is the problem, and when only three out of a hundred are good, then it is already quite bad. Then chemicals are used, and then we eat chemicals and say that we feel bad," says the interviewee, who has also published a book about it.

Completely different traps are made for soil pests - Colorado beetles, crickets, and grub larvae.

"They need to be lured into the ground. When you harvest the garden, you have already dug up the potatoes, carrots, and pumpkins, you dig a hole half a meter deep, half a meter long and wide, add leaves, grass, lawn, mix it with some other weeds, manure in the village to keep them warm, then bury it in the ground 5 cm layer, dig in a stake - mark that place. Then it starts to get cold, like 8 degrees C of cold already, but the ground doesn't freeze because it heats up from below.

You come, you dig everything, and when you dig, you find Colorado beetles,  larvae - everything. Then you dig everything up and they freeze. From this, the soil is also enriched with organic substances," added A. Amšiejus."