Imagine, it turns out that not only people and rabbits love cabbage! Cabbage pests live in the gardens and orchards, which will not miss the chance to enjoy its crunchy and juicy leaves. These parasites include fleas, aphids, slugs, cabbage flies, butterfly whites, scoops and other insects. How to deal with them without the use of chemicals is the topic of my article today.
How to deal with cabbage pests folk remedies
The main thing is not to be late!
Remember, if you do not pay due attention to protecting your crop, then you will not collect anything in the fall ... Believe me, pests of cabbage (white cabbage, for example) do not doze off! Meanwhile, it is not at all necessary to exterminate them by resorting to chemical methods. You can choose less radical methods that allow your cabbage to grow without any "complications."
Down with the skits!
- Keep in mind that cabbage pests, including the fly of the same name, really do not like pungent odors (for example, garlic). Therefore, plant it next to the cabbage beds. These insects will fly around your garden.
- Dill is just a wonderful spice! In addition, it is a "charm" of cabbage from aphid attacks! Drop it around the perimeter of the bed.
- Peppermint and tansy do a great job with caterpillars and cabbage flies. You can plant wormwood near the beds.
- Cabbage pests such as butterflies cannot tolerate eggshells. The fact is that they take her for their fellows, thinking that this territory is already occupied. That is why you should stick in the ground between the beds of sticks with shells hung on them. Believe me, the butterfly will “forget” the road to your precious cabbage.
- If vile slugs encroach on a vegetable, then dig a nettle around the perimeter of the bed, which will scare away these creatures.
- Perhaps the most difficult battle for the cabbage is the fight against filthy aphids! However, nothing is impossible. Experienced gardeners are advised to spray cabbage leaves with a decoction of onion husks or a soap solution with the addition of wood ash.
- As a preventive measure against almost any cabbage pests, it is necessary to spray a crisp vegetable with a solution of ash and tobacco. How to cook it: take a bucket of water and dissolve in it a liter can of tobacco mixed with ash in a ratio of 1: 1. We defend for a day, and then filter. Fill the atomizer - and go!
- Cabbage pests such as cruciferous flea and the like are dangerous. To prevent their mass emergence, it is necessary to engage in regular weeding of weeds from the Cabbage family (field yarrows, shepherd’s bags, colza, alyssum).
- To prevent the spread of rotten aphids, remove and burn cabbage plant residues (stumps) in time, and carefully dig up the autumn soil with its subsequent leveling. Do not forget about weeding weeds!
- Catch a cabbage scoop on molasses or at night bonfires that will attract it with their light. In small areas, you can manually collect eggs laid by this butterfly. It is better to do this in the early morning and always in cloudy weather.