White coating on gooseberry berries - treatment, treatment

If gooseberries are covered with a noticeable coating,this means that the bush was struck by a dangerous disease - powdery mildew, the most important symptom of which is the appearance on the berries and leaves of gooseberries of loose, flour-like white plaque.</ p>

Powdery mildew is considered an extremely dangerous disease for both gooseberry and other berry bushes, since it can not only affect the yield, but also completely destroy gooseberry.

Appearance of white plaque on gooseberry does not depend onneither from a plant variety, nor from local climatic features - this disease very much "loves" a warm and humid climate, but in dry it is spread not less.

How to deal with white bloom on gooseberry berries

Diseases of gooseberries and their treatment, photo

As you know, any disease is cheaper to warn,than to cure, and the case of powdery mildew is no exception. If you do not want a dangerous fungus to hit all plantations of gooseberries, you need to take care of the plants in the spring, immediately after planting gooseberry or even earlier.

Recognize the symptoms of powdery mildew on gooseberryvery simple: the first alarm - on the leaves of gooseberries, leaves and young berries appears a white coating, at first a bit like frost. "Fluffy" flakes of plaque, if not discarded in time, gradually change color to brown, become more dense. Very soon you will notice that shoots and leaves of gooseberries, damaged by powdery mildew, dry, break, and berries - cease to ripen and crumble.

The correct way to deal with whitegooseberry - spraying of bush. If you did not take care of the prevention of powdery mildew in advance, and noticed the appearance of a plaque only when the berries already appeared on the gooseberry, try the following: dilute the solution of laundry soap with vitriol from the ratio of twenty grams of copper sulfate and one hundred and fifty grams of laundry soap per ten liters of water.

To dilute soap in water, it is enough to planit is on a large grater, and vitriol must first be stirred in hot water, and then poured into a soap solution. The resulting mixture should be sprinkled with bushes of gooseberry, paying special attention to the affected areas.

Chemicals and products for spraying gooseberries

Gooseberries - powdery mildew, treatment

Ideal time for the prevention of white plaque ongooseberry - the period before flowering and immediately after the flowering shrub. At this time for the prevention of powdery mildew can use a variety of chemicals and drugs.

For example, there is an excellent domestic drug"Topaz", which is recommended to spray bushes of gooseberries directly before and immediately after the appearance of flowers. Also suitable for the prevention of powdery mildew on gooseberries preparations that can be bought in almost every economic department of a large supermarket - Tivit Jet, Kumulus, Vektra.

The easiest and cheapest way to preventoccurrence of a plaque on berries and leaves of gooseberries - in advance to spray the ground around the bush with a weak solution of copper sulfate (at the rate of ten to fifteen grams of copper sulfate per several liters of water).

Or you can make a soapy solution (two tablespoons of soda, fifty grams of soap shavings and ten liters of water) and water them around the bushes of gooseberry. You can use this solution for spraying shrubs - but only in advance, during the appearance of the first leaves on the bushes of gooseberry.

Author: Katerina Sergeenko