Ammonia is quite often used for treating and fertilizing various vegetables grown in the garden. It is often used to process carrots. This substance is a good nitrogen fertilizer, which not only has a beneficial effect on the growth of carrots, but also protects it from pests.
Pest protection
Some vegetable growers wonder whether it is possible to use ammonia to protect carrots from insects. It’s definitely possible, since it can help protect plants.
Aphid
Treatment with this substance can save plants that suffer from aphids.To do this, you need to prepare a special solution. A few liters of water, 100 g of baby or laundry soap and alcohol are added to a small container. All this is thoroughly mixed and infused for half an hour. Then you can water the carrots with the prepared mixture. This procedure should be carried out in calm weather so that the liquid gets onto the bushes without problems.
Ants
Quite often, ammonia is used to combat ants that can harm future harvests. These insects are not very dangerous, but they create their anthills directly on the beds, which can slow down the development of plants.
To prepare the mixture, add a full bottle of alcohol to a liter of water, after which the liquid is mixed. Before using the solution, it is recommended to remove the top layer of soil from the anthill.
A few treatments should be enough to get the ants to leave the carrots alone.
Protection from other insects
Also, this substance is often used to protect against other pests that are not so common in gardens:
- Medvedka. It is a rather insidious pest that is difficult to get rid of. To remove a mole cricket, you will need to stir 15 ml of alcohol in a bucket of water. The resulting solution is used for spraying several times a week.
- Weevil. It is much less common than other pests. You can get rid of it using a solution prepared from 5 liters of water and 30 ml of alcohol. You need to process the carrots every week until the weevil completely disappears.
- Caterpillars. The solution is prepared from 10 liters of water and 100 ml of ammonia.To get rid of caterpillars, carrots need to be sprayed 2-3 times a day.
Precautionary measures
Before using ammonia for carrots, you need to familiarize yourself with the precautions:
- It is not recommended to use industrial or pharmaceutical ammonia for preparing mixtures;
- people who suffer from vegetative-vascular dystonia should give up ammonia, as it can cause a hypertensive crisis and worsen a person’s general condition;
- Before you start using this substance, it is necessary to protect the skin of your hands and respiratory organs - during work you should use long sleeves, masks and rubber gloves.
- You need to prepare the mixture for feeding outdoors or in well-ventilated rooms;
- It is advisable to store ammonia in closed and securely protected places that children or animals cannot enter;
- You should not deeply inhale ammonia vapor, as this can lead to disruption of the heart and a complete stop of breathing.
Features of use
To treat carrots with alcohol correctly, you need to familiarize yourself with the specifics of using this substance.
Water the carrots with liquid using a watering can. In this case, it is recommended to water in the first half of the growing season. This will have a beneficial effect on the plant’s growth of green mass. In the second half of summer, special attention should be paid to the formation of root crops. It is during this period that carrots will need nitrogen.
However, this does not mean that you need to water the bushes every day, since a high concentration of nitrogen can also negatively affect the root crop.
It is recommended to increase the amount of watering during nitrogen starvation.In this case, it is better to use a working mixture prepared from 10 liters of water and 100 ml of solution. You need to feed carrots early in the morning or in the evening to protect the plants from sunburn.
Combination with other fertilizers
You can use ammonia with other fertilizers. This will not only protect plants from insects, but also increase their growth rate.
Manure
This fertilizer is quite often used to feed carrots. Some vegetable growers use it together with ammonia. This mixture is very useful, as it has a multifaceted, complex effect on the soil. Before use, manure must be mixed with water in a ratio of one to five.
To increase fertilizing efficiency, you can add a little superphosphate or other phosphate fertilizers to the solution.
Peat
Contains a large amount of nitrogen, which is necessary for the normal development of carrots. It can be used not only with alcohol, but also with other fertilizers. Peat is often mixed with manure or mineral fertilizers.
Before using this substance, it must be prepared. To do this, peat is placed in low half-meter stacks. Then several kilograms of manure and phosphate rock are added to it. If the peat is too acidic, then a kilogram of lime is added to it. About 10 kg of fertilizer is consumed per square meter of land.
Sawdust
Very often, sawdust is added to the soil along with alcohol. Gardeners use them for various purposes. Very often, sawdust is used when mulching plantings, preparing composts and loosening the soil.It makes no sense to use only sawdust for fertilizer, and that is why ammonia and mineral fertilizers are used together with them. From them you can prepare a fertilizer consisting of alcohol, sawdust, potassium chloride and superphosphate.
You can also add a little slaked lime or ground chalk to the mixture to reduce the acidity of the soil.
Conclusion
Study feeding carrots ammonia is not so difficult. To do this, it is enough to familiarize yourself with the features of preparing the solution and recommendations for its use.
