As for people, some natural recipes can prove effective for the well-being of your plants.
Decoctions are useful for plants, shrubs, vegetable gardens, etc.
What is garden decoction?
Non-toxic to the environment and biodiversity, the decoction consists in the extraction of the active substances of the substance by the action of a liquid brought to a boil.
Decoctions used in the garden help to promote and improve plant growth. But also to deal with possible diseases or fungi.
How to prepare a decoction?
Soak cut plants, leaves of selected plants, woody parts or roots in cold fresh water for one day. Preferably use rainwater.
Then cook covered for 1/2 hour and leave to cool under the lid before filtering. Then the decoction is ready for use.
With which plants to make decoctions for the garden?
The list of wild plants that can be used for decoction is varied. Here are the most commonly used:
- Nettle: 100 g of roots per 1 liter of water
- Garlic: 100 g of chopped cloves per 1 liter of water
- Rhubarb: 100 g of fresh leaves per 1 liter of water
- Tansy: 100 g of the plant – leaves, stems, flowers – for 1 liter of water
- Lavender
- Horsetail: 100 g of fresh plants per 1 liter of water
- Comfrey: 100 g of fresh plants per 1 liter of water
- Without black: 100 g of fresh leaves per 1 liter of water
- Walnut leaves
- willow
How to use decoction in the garden?
The decoction can have a fertilizing, fungicidal (powdery mildew, blister, peronospora, botrytis, rust), insecticidal and insect repellent function.
Spray this organic treatment, neat or diluted. Do this regularly for a few weeks to see convincing results.
Against fungal diseases:
Against pests:
For spraying on colonies of aphids, caterpillars, insect larvae, slugs.
- Garlic decoction (against bed bugs, red spiders)
- Elderberry decoction (aphid)
- Lavender decoction (aphid)
- Decoction of comfrey (aphid)
To promote plant growth and strengthen them:
You can use it by spraying or watering, diluted in 10 liters of water. This decoction is suitable for all plants.
Decoctions are a gardener’s natural ally that cannot be neglected.