Even in ancient times, one of the most beloved and popular vegetables in the human diet was cabbage. Thanks to the large content of various vitamins in it, it is able to protect the human body from numerous ailments over the whole year. Cabbage cultivation is not a time-consuming process, so no bedding costs without this beautiful vegetable. With its beauty and useful properties, she attracts many pests, which are still lying quickly spoil her appearance. For harvest, you should take care of the means against pests. This article will familiarize you with the most common cabbage pests and will help to overcome them in a matter of times.
Cabbage pests and how to handle cabbage from them
The question is how to protect cabbage from pests - many breeders and gardeners are set. Many do not even suspect that this vegetable culture is already infected on the garden, as many cabbage dumplings are hiding inside the coach and / or under the leaves, so the cabbage to fight pests should be prepared in advance. This article will not only tell, but also give a photo of cape pests.
Slug
These are the fastest propagating parasites of vegetable crops. They know all gardeners and breeders. They easily affect cabbage, turnips, carrots, parsley, pumpkin, zucchini, eggplant and other plants. It is very often possible to observe them on young plants and seedlings.
Slugs love moisture very much. They are strongly activated during the rain or on cloudy days. Seeing at least one mollusk on the cabbage sheet, after a couple of hours there will be a whole mass. The lifespan of the slug reaches several years. For one season, the female produces several generations. The body of slugs is very flexible.
You can overcome them using a bitter pepper solution or apply various food bait.
Medveda
Also this pest is also called Kapoolenka.
The Medveda is a major insect, which can be in length more than six centimeters. At first glance, it is a little bit like cancer. The back of a dirty-brown color, belly has a yellowish tint and covered with thick, small hairs. Kapolenka uses its front paws for digging the earth.
This pest is very common in Russia and in Europe. For his saturation, he eats the roots and stems of various plants, seeds and numerous root roots. Usually dwells underground.
It is very difficult to overcome the bear, but it is possible if it is difficult to pour the soil with a solution with a solution with 0.3% chlorophos. Another effective way to combat this voracious insect is a bait consisting of a mixture of grain crops together with chlorophos.
Capping Tla
This is a very prolific and extremely dangerous insect for cabbage and other vegetable crops. The petty insect is actively parasitized by almost throughout Russia.
The wave populates on the cabbage in the middle of the summer. Outless females lay on the leaves of eggs, brilliantly black. They themselves consist of an egg-shaped body with a length of 2 mm and covered with whitish dust. Females of the covers reproduce the larvae. With the help of the trouble, the TLA sues juice from plants.
Protect cabbage from pest - Tlima can be spraying plants insecticide "Match" and "Aktara".
Cabbage mole
This insect is very often found on cabbage plantations. The front wings are long, painted in a dark, slightly wavy strip, and the rear is dark gray. Mole cabbage sets out the caterpillar cabbage sheets with eight legs and having a brown head, on which black dots are located. Caterpillars instantly eaten the pulp of the sheet, thereby forming moves. They also damage the top kidney, after which the plant ceases to grow and dies.
Effective struggle against the cabbage can serve a deep chilly plowing of the Earth. It is also recommended to perform a spraying with drugs containing phosporganic components in a timely manner.
Capping fly
The dangerous enemy of the garden and the greenhouse is a cabbage fly. Insect outwardly very similar to the usual homemade fly, only a little less. This parasite is a pest of cauliflower and white. At the end of May, the fly begins to postpone his eggs to Earth near the cabbage itself or near the root cerv. Almost ten days later, the larvae appear from these eggs that begin to eat the root system. As a result, the cabbage fades and dies. The presence of cabbage fly larvae is evidenced by the lower leaves that acquire a lead shade.
Cabbage pests
Anyone who can see bored cabbage sheets on a garden garden, begins to set the goal of how to save this vitamin vegetable, without damaging their health. Surface gardens in their arsenal have many people's councils and ways that will allow to say goodbye times and forever with cabbage pests.
- Effective tool from pests of cabbage is to watering cabbage in the infusion of chicken litter. Such an infusion will be not only a good tool from the protection of parasites, but also an excellent fertilizer, from which cabbage begins to grow better and faster. To prepare such an infusion, 200 grams of chicken litter should be taken and breed it in 10 liters of water. The infusion insists the day, and then water the plants.
- After the rain or fog, many breeders pour their beds ashes. The ash is considered many centuries with excellent feeding not only for cabbage, but also other vegetable crops.
- Recently, more and more often you can hear about an effective way to handle cabbage from pests by vinegar. This folk method is really the most efficient and reliable. After it processing cabbage can be used at any time.
For spraying, a table vinegar is divorced 6% in ten liters of cold water. Before the processing itself is better to inform about the weather. In hot dry days, spraying advise specialists after sunset, as the cabbage leaves can get burns.
- Experienced breeders advise to cover the entire cabbage seedlings with nonwoven cloth. It will protect the plants from the scorching sun and prevents the access of various insects to the plant. As soon as cabbage is strengthened, and the leaves will become more hard and rude, can be removed the canvas.
- Can be caught from pests can be tincture made of onion husks. Its strong smell scares almost all pests and at the same time onion a beautiful fertilizer for a plant and land.
To prepare the tincture, you will need half a kilogram of onion husk, which should be poured with four liters of hot water. It follows a few days (3 - 4 days). Before handling, pests from pests should be added to the tincture of one teaspoon of the Degtyar shampoo. Such a mixture spray cabbage is recommended once every three to four days.
- If you do not know how to spray cabbage from such pests like caterpillars, then try inexpensive, but an effective way. Eggs and larvae of caterpillars are very loved by the wasp and eat them with pleasure. For bait OS, take the old jam or sugar syrup and pour them cabbage. The wasps instantly arrive at your plantation and will neutralize your crop from insects.
- The folk method for the struggle and prevention of cabbage flies and its larvae is a bay leaf. The packet laurel sheet is brewed in one liter of hot water and spray plants so influence. Spraying can be regularly. Bay leaf is a fairly effective remedy for cabbage pests.
Cabbage treatment of chemistry pests
Not only folk remedies and methods are used to treat and protect the white cabbage, but also chemical. Unfortunately, large areas of this culture cannot be treated manually or when immediate pest control is needed. The most popular chemicals are:
- Fury;
- Cemifos;
- Iskra - m;
- Bollas and others.
In stores and markets you can meet others, as well as very good chemicals for cabbage processing. It should be breeding strictly according to the instructions that are specified on the package.
White cabbage is not only an excellent vegetable for the preparation of numerous dishes, it is an excellent medicinal plant that many centuries is valued by their useful substances. Without this unique product, no house is required. We hope that this article will become an excellent instruction that will save your garden from malicious parasites.
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