Cabbage is one of the main vegetables that gardeners love to grow. The vegetable is both tasty and healthy, but there are a lot of enemies. Pests of cabbage, if not combated, can leave you completely without a crop.
Cabbage White - A very common pest, a white butterfly. It is not the butterflies themselves that bring harm, but their larvae. Butterflies lay eggs on the lower surface of the cabbage leaf, then caterpillars grow from them and literally devour the entire leaf, leaving only veins. How to treat cabbage from pests of this category? Here are suitable drugs "Fufanon", "Spark", "Anometrin", "Etafos". You can simply collect the tracks manually, but you will have to do this daily.
Cruciferous fleas are small bugs that eat leaves. Their larvae and they themselves feed on the green mass of the leaf, bite into the flesh
leaving holes, causing the leaves to dry out. To combat these cabbage pests, the Iskra preparation is suitable. Dilute it for spraying according to the instructions. From folk methods, you can use infusions of garlic, tomato or potato tops, as well as infusion of dandelions. Before insisting, these plants should be passed through a meat grinder. To part one glass of the received "forcemeat" in a bucket of warm water. Let stand for 3 hours, then add 1 tbsp of laundry or liquid soap - and the solution is ready for spraying (1 liter per 10 m²).
Cabbage scoop - these cabbage pests can gnaw through cabbages right through, leaving a green discharge . The caterpillars of this nocturnal butterfly do harm . For spraying, you can use the drug "Spark DE" or "Spark M". If you do not want to use chemistry, you can use a folk remedy: dilute in a bucket of warm water 2 cups of ash and 1 tablespoon of soap. Spraying is best done in the evening, in dry weather.
Cabbage fly - these cabbage pests develop in the ground. Young seedlings are struck around mid-May. The insect lays eggs in the soil, larvae appear from them and eat the roots of young seedlings. To fight a fly, they smoke the earth around seedlings or cultivate the soil before planting with the following mixture: take wood ash and tobacco dust in equal parts , add a little ground red pepper. You can use the drug "Spark M".
Bears - these insects live in the soil, only adults do harm. They gnaw young plants at ground level. There are no effective drugs to combat the bear . You can only protect the seedlings mechanically, for example, plant it inside a metal can from canned food, which has a bottom cut out.
Aphids - these small pests of cabbage feed on its juice. Plants affected by aphids literally dry up and die. The most effective method for controlling aphids is spraying karbofos. Dilute it as follows: 60 g per bucket of water. Spray in the afternoon or evening, in dry weather. There are folk remedies - in a three-liter jar of hot water, brew 1 tbsp. shag, 1 tbsp. ash and 1 tablespoon of soap. The jar is tightly closed and insisted for one day. Then pour this infusion into a bucket and add it to the top with water. Strain and spray. Processing with this infusion is repeated several times with an interval of 5-7 days. Of course, the control of cabbage pests is a troublesome business. But it can save your harvest.