Processing cabbage from pests is simply a necessary measure of its protection. After all, quite often it happens this way: a beautiful, large, clean- looking cabbage grows. However, when they clean it, they notice that the leaves have become unusable. They are covered with some kind of brown coating, like dried mud. Sometimes they spoil to the very stump! Who is to blame? Of course, pests! In this article we will tell you how to process cabbage from pests.
Not at all a "lordly outfit"
Yes, friends, pests can pretty much spoil the "lordly outfits" of cabbage ... Now the following insects and mollusks are dangerous for it:
- cabbage aphid;
- cruciferous flea;
- Cabbage Butterfly
- slugs;
- cabbage scoop;
- larvae of cabbage moths and flies.
For example, the larvae of the cabbage scoops in July and September penetrate not so much into white cabbage as into the cauliflower heads! Pests gnaw through the moves in them, clog the whole space with their excrement. What to do? How is cabbage and cauliflower processed? About it - further.
Chemical treatment of cabbage from pests
- For processing, take 4 ml of a solution of the drug "Bankol". Dilute it in 5 liters of water. The amount obtained is quite enough to spray a whole hundred. This tool will save your cabbage from uninvited caterpillars of a butterfly-whitewash, as well as from cabbage moths and scoops.
- Ready-made chemicals for cabbage are sold in stores. Among them are Kemifos, Fury, Iskra-M and others. Before use, be sure to read the instructions, especially with the proportions of the solution.
However, in addition to ready-made chemicals, cabbage can be cooked with home-made products! About it - further.
Processing cabbage from pests in folk ways
- Use decoctions of herbs growing next to your cabbage. For example, to destroy the caterpillars of butterfly butterflies, you will help a decoction of tomato tops, wormwood, as well as infusions of celandine and tansy.
- There is another folk way. It is necessary to chop coarsely wormwood, scatter it in cabbage. Pest butterflies will keep clear of this cabbage until the wormwood on it dries. You can scatter onion peel in cabbage - the effect will not take long. By the way, an infusion of such a husk will be no less effective! In general, infusions from onions and green arrows of garlic are one of the most effective pest control products.
- In the fight against slugs, slaked lime will help you . Sprinkle it around the plants (two or three lines). You can use superphosphate or dolomite flour.
- Prepare a suspension of mustard for spraying cabbage. The ratio is as follows: 100 g of this powder must be diluted in 10 liters of water. You can pollinate the soil with the already mentioned superphosphate or slaked lime. You can use a mixture of lime and tobacco dust (in equal parts).
- Naturally, do not forget about the timely care of cabbage! Weed it in time, loosen the soil, and spud plants. Use special fertilizing for plants (cabbage). It is then that the cabbage will say “Thank you” and will be able to repel pests!