Growing vegetables on the balcony without spraying pesticides? Save these non-toxic pest and disease control remedies

Recently I've been seeing you all sharing your little daily balcony harvests, how come some of you have so many cucumbers and tomatoes you don't even want to pick them! The editor knows that the melons, fruits and vegetables you sowed in spring have entered the mature harvest period. The pollution-free fruits and vegetables you grow yourself are fresh and tasty, can be picked and eaten at any time, and have a super long harvest period. Summer is a season when pests and diseases break out easily. If they can't be dealt with in time, they will seriously affect yield and quality, which is a real headache.

Seeing the melons, fruits and vegetables growing so nicely and about to be harvested, only for pests like snails to get a taste first, leaving the leaves eaten full of holes; fruits drop before they ripen, fruits don't grow big - this may be the work of pests that suck sap, and it can make melons, fruits and vegetables that were growing perfectly well stop growing directly or even kill the whole plant.

We must have "zero tolerance" for these hateful pests. If you don't want to spray pesticides, use insect traps and sticky insect boards if you have them. You can also save these safe, non-toxic pest and disease control methods - the materials used are all things we can easily get in daily life.

1. Beer trap for killing snails - what do you do when there are too many snails to pick by hand? Now beer has a great use: it can be used to make a trap to kill snails. It turns out snails also like sweet and fragrant food. Place a bowl or basin with beer near the pots for one night, and you'll find the snails are attracted over; if they haven't gotten drunk yet, you can give them a hand.

2. Plant ash for killing insects - plant ash is a farmer's treasure; it can kill insects and also serve as organic potassium fertilizer. Generally, after sowing, we spread a layer of sifted plant ash, which can protect seedlings very well. When the morning dew hasn't dried yet, sprinkle it directly on the affected crops to control pests such as aphids and scarab beetles.

3. Chili water for killing insects - give the pests something spicy. Use super-hot conical chilies, add 50 times the amount of clean water and boil for half an hour, then take the liquid and spray it. It can control pests such as aphids, cutworms and red spider mites.

4. Washing powder for killing insects - a washing powder water solution is alkaline and causes no pollution to the environment. After spraying a 1000-fold solution, it can block the spiracles on the pests' wings, making them unable to fly or causing them to suffocate to death. It can control pests such as aphids, whiteflies, red spider mites and cabbage caterpillars.

5. Baking soda for control - baking soda is a must-have treasure in the kitchen. Spraying a baking soda solution at a concentration of 0.2%~0.5% once can prevent cucumber anthracnose, powdery mildew, and tomato and green bean sooty mold, leaf mites and other diseases. For melons, fruits and vegetables that have already developed the disease, the concentration can be appropriately increased to 1.0%. If you feel the effect is not obvious, you can spray once more every other day.

6. Garlic juice for killing insects - mash 5 heads of garlic and 1 onion together, wrap them in gauze, and soak in 5L of water for one day. The liquid can control pests such as beetles, aphids and red spider mites.