How to get rid of a bear with folk remedies

How to use folk remedies

The fight against the bear must be constant and complex. As usual, it is easier to prevent it from appearing on the site than to deal with the consequences. Although the bear flies beautifully and can simply fly to your site from a neighbor's, especially if any anti-exploration means are used there.

When planning measures against this pest, it is worth starting them before the breeding season, which falls on May-June. Accordingly, you need to deal with adults in advance. Folk remedies for fighting the bear are preferable for those gardeners who, for various reasons, are afraid to use pesticides on their site. It should be borne in mind that the struggle with folk remedies can be laborious, although the same can be said about any work in the garden and garden.

But some of the popular methods have an additional effect - saturation of the soil with useful substances. Conventionally, all methods of dealing with a bear can be divided into three large groups: traps with bait (beer, honey), scaring away (pungent odors) and mechanical barriers. If you can't get rid of the pest, even using the whole range of measures, then you should think about pesticides.

We catch on beer

Medvedka loves beer and willingly falls into such traps. To set up a beer trap, you need to pour about 50-100 ml of beer into a bottle with a wide mouth. You need to make several such bottles - the more, the better, but at least three for each hundred square meters of the garden. Bottles are dug into the ground, in places where most of the bear's moves are seen, using a special technology. First, you need to make holes five to ten centimeters deep and up to twenty centimeters in diameter. It is necessary to place a bottle in such a hole - obliquely, at an angle of 45 degrees, so that the lower edge of the neck is at the level of the bottom of the hole.

But near the very neck you need to put a piece of film or any other protective material so that no earth gets into the bottle. From above, the hole must be covered with a dense opaque material - plywood, old linoleum or something similar. Bears come to the smell, and then they cannot get out of the can and are easy prey for angry gardeners. At the beginning of the season, such traps need to be checked daily - up to twenty bears can be crammed into a bottle. You can take them out with a wire hook. If necessary, change the beer to fresh, since the bears are not picky about varieties, but yes to freshness.

Similarly, you can equip a honey water trap. Or simply spread honey on a wide-necked jar and dig it vertically into the ground. Cover the neck with straw from above. Pests go to the smell of honey, and then they cannot get out of the jar. You can also pour raw potatoes or porridge seasoned with unrefined sunflower oil into jars. Necessarily unrefined, this smell is very attractive to bears and can even mask the smell of poison for this pest.

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Onion peel tincture

Medvedka is afraid of strong odors and therefore the fight against it can take place with the help of plants or plant parts. Let's start with the bow. A good deterrent against a bear is tincture of onion peel. You need to take about a kilogram of onion husks and peelings in a ten-liter bucket, fill it to the top with water. Insist for four days, a little longer. Filter and squeeze the cake. Dilute the resulting liquid with water at the rate of 1 to 5, water the plants once a week. Important! You can use the tincture either after rain, or, in an arid area, after abundant watering with plain water. After several applications of the tincture, the bears go away.

You can do it easier - to scatter onion husks in the aisles. In addition to the effect of scaring away bears, this will be a fertilizer. Garlic, the closest aromatic relative of onions, also helps. You can fight the bear by throwing cloves of garlic into the holes when planting any seeds or seedlings.

Pine needles recipe

Any conifers will help get rid of the bear - the pest does not tolerate this smell. Fresh branches of pine or spruce need to be chopped and spread out on the beds, lightly sprinkled with earth so that they stay fresh longer and scare away the bear with aroma. But needles will have to be applied throughout the site in order to prevent the pest from crawling from one garden to another. At a minimum, you will have to scatter the needles in the aisles.

Another option is to throw a handful of needles into each hole when planting potatoes. Also, experienced gardeners give advice - to mulch the soil, including with a thick layer of needles (up to 20 centimeters). Thus, more moisture is retained in the ground, and this is not to the taste of the bear. True, this method is applicable only for those parts of the garden that, for whatever reason, were left without planting. You also need to remember that the needles strongly acidify the soil, and therefore this method of dealing with a bear is not suitable for every garden.

Iodine water

Fighting with iodine is a non-standard and uncommon remedy. Its smell is not pleasant to the pest and helps to get rid of it. You need to add 15 drops of a seventy percent iodine solution to a bucket of water and pour the resulting mixture on the beds before planting seedlings or sowing root seeds.

You can also fight the bear with other folk remedies - surround the garden around the perimeter with trenches with gravel, add strips of plastic or roofing material along the rows of seedlings, pour a solution of laundry soap into the holes, leave dung traps or dig up the garden during the period of laying and ripening of eggs. Usually two to three years of hard work is enough to eliminate this pest on your site.

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To get rid of this pest, it is not necessary to resort to chemicals and solutions. It is enough to use the tips that you will find in the video below.