foto: YouTube/Nursan Garden
Brilio.net - Chili is one of the important ingredients in many typical Indonesian dishes. For example, rendang, tongseng, pepes, geprek chicken, and seafood padang seasoning, all use chili as one of the main ingredients. The spicy taste of chili makes the dish more delicious and perfect.
Many people who like spicy flavors routinely buy chilies in the market so that the stock of chilies at home is always available. In addition, there are also those who choose to plant their own chili plants in their yards. Chili plants tend to grow easily even if they are only planted in narrow areas such as pots, polybags, or used bottles and gallons.
However, although easy to plant, chili plants are also at risk of damage or death if not properly cared for. One cause of damage to chili plants is pest attacks. Various pests such as lice, ants, caterpillars, and others often land and damage chili plants.
To eradicate pests on chili plants, chemical or natural pesticides can be used. If choosing natural, people often use kitchen spices such as salt, MSG, onions, and so on. However, there are also other ingredients that can be used to eradicate pests on chili plants.
This trick was once shared by a netizen who is familiarly called Dinda through an upload on her personal YouTube account. She once found an ant pest that attacked her chili plants. To overcome it, she used a type of drink ingredient that is very easy to find on the market.
"Ants appear because the leaves are attacked by aphids or whiteflies. Aphids produce honeydew, so the ants come," he explained, quoted by BrilioFood from YouTube Dinda Amalia Dwi Anggata on Friday (13/9).
The drink ingredient that Dinda meant to eradicate pests in chili plants is coffee. The trick is, just sprinkle coffee grounds on the top of the planting medium until evenly distributed. Make sure the coffee grounds used to eradicate these pests do not contain sugar, milk, or other ingredients.
photo: YouTube/Dinda Amalia Dwi Anggata
In addition, to make coffee work more effectively to eradicate pests, you can also rub a little of it on both sides of the leaves where there are pests. Reported from parachutecoffee.com, the distinctive and strong aroma of coffee is said to be disliked by pests, so that chili plants can grow safely.
photo: YouTube/Dinda Amalia Dwi Anggata
Well, how about it, is this trick to eradicate pests on chili plants really simple? Do you have other tricks or are you interested in trying tricks like in this video that has been watched 5,000 times?
(brl/tin)
