Bordeaux mixture and rules of its preparation

Who hasn’t used Bordeaux liquid in their cottage? Probably all. Because country plants, like people, need not only to feed, drink and cherish, but also protect and treat. For like us, the vegetable kingdom is full of enemies, freeloaders and pests!

Bordeaux mix - a very famous solution of copper sulfur in lime milk. It is used as a fungicide (a chemical to combat fungal diseases of vegetable and garden crops). Copper sulfur has been used by doctors since ancient times as an integral part of powders and vapors, and even today it is possible to find medical recipes using it. But the miraculous protective properties of this substance for plants, according to history, were “discovered” quite by accident.

In the infamous 5 years of the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, when phytofluoro destroyed the entire potato crop in the country, a reporter of a small provincial newspaper noticed that near copper smelting plants potatoes are healthy and continue to grow, while in all other places it has long turned into stinking rot. A little time passed and it was already clear to everyone: copper was the savior.

Today, copper in the Bordeaux mixture faithfully serves our gardeners and gardeners. Before the defeat of plants by any diseases, treatment with this composition will be an excellent preventive tool. And for infections, medicine.

This mixture can be bought in the store in dry form. In each package - copper sulfur, lime and (should be!) a specially nested indicator strip to check the correctness of the manufacture of the liquid mixture.


How to prepare Bordeaux liquid If there is no ready-made mixture, you can prepare it yourself. Only necessary.

• purchase
• proportionately
• strictly adhere to the sequence of preparation

Proportions for the preparation of Bordeaux mixture
Recipe: 10 liters of solution - 100 g of copper sulfur + 150 g of quicklime
Recipe: for 10 liters of solution - 300 g of copper sulfur + 450 g of quicklime

According to experts, the preparation of the mixture is far from arbitrary. You can't just mix the ingredients and dilute everything with water. To understand the technology we will help an experienced gardener in this video:



Despite the remarkable properties of Bordeaux liquid - the healer of plants, we must remember: a small concentration of copper in the soil - good, and excess - harm! Paracelsus said, “Everything is poison, and nothing is devoid of poison.” A single dose makes the poison invisible. An excess of country chemicals will certainly settle in our bodies with a heavy load of their already human diseases.

Source: www.7dach.ru