Where is tobacco dust used?

Tobacco dust is a natural and very effective insecticide, the use of which is successful in combating various insect pests. Tobacco slugs, bugs, flies, larvae of various insects, harming agricultural plantations are afraid of tobacco.

Tobacco dust, the use of which is quite effective, is also used in plant growing, beekeeping and horticulture. It is considered an excellent fertilizer, which increases the microbiological activity and nutrition of soils. Outwardly it is a dust that has a brown tinge.

Properties of tobacco dust

It is very important that the preparation is a biologically pure material. It does not contain microorganisms that can harm, and is completely safe for any field of application. In tobacco dust, there is no weed seed, and with long-term use, the soil does not accumulate any harmful substances. Thanks to the content of phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium - mineralizable species of microelements - tobacco dust contributes to the improvement of 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.

1. The main task of the drug is fertilizing absolutely any garden, agricultural and hothouse crops without any preliminary preparation.
2. It is common to use tobacco dust together with mineral fertilizers during the plowing of soils in a combination of 20-40 tons per 1 ha.
3. It is used for sowing of winter and arid crops in a combination of 4 tons per 1 hectare.
4. Decorative crops and fruit and berry plantings are planted after fertilizing with tobacco dust in the amount of up to five kilograms per pit.
5. Dust is used in the preparation of lawns. You can spray up to three kilograms of the drug on the already prepared land, walk carefully rake and pour. After this procedure, a general sowing is carried out.
6. It is recommended to fertilize the plant with potted plants and flowers. The proportions are taken 1: 1: 1 with soil and clean sand.
7. Fields with a crop rotation are fertilized once every three years.

Tobacco dust from pests

It is good to fight insects, spoiling plantings, tobacco infusion. To make it, take 500 g of the drug, pour it into a container, fill with ten liters of water and insist for two days. After this, everyone filters through gauze, so that the nebulizer is not clogged. You can supplement the mixture with a soap solution from laundry soap (50 g). Soap will promote the adhesion of the solution to the leaves of plants. Active infusion against pests such as:

• aphid;
• Thrips;
• Medina;
• Larva of the sawfly;
• Caterpillars.

You can pollinate the plant with tobacco dust. For this, tobacco dust and hydrated lime (or sunflower ash) are taken, mixed in a one-to-one ratio and spread out over the necessary territory. Thus they are destroyed:

• Slug (up to 30 grams per meter);
• Fleas (three times a month);
• Other pests (three times in a week);
• Onion flies (10 grams per meter, once in the summer months).

You can fumigate the greenhouses, burning on a baking sheet - 500 g per meter. The method kills aphids, thrips, whiteflies. Fruit and berry bushes and trees are fumigated against a copperfish and aphids after flowering during the period of winged insects. Put in the bucket combustible trash and chips, and when the fire flares up, add up to a kilogram of tobacco dust. Fumigated for half an hour in windless weather. It should be clarified that the smoke does not cause any harm to bees.