Unfortunately, with all the variety of varieties of agricultural crops, agricultural technicians have not fully resolved the issue with pests. From year to year, gardeners go on the warpath against these parasites in order to preserve their harvest. In this article we will tell you how and with what to treat cabbage against pests and diseases.
Treatment of cabbage against diseases
When growing cabbage, a gardener may encounter many diseases that affect seedlings or already grown cabbage. How to treat cabbage so that it does not get sick?
- When white rot or powdery mildew appears, seedlings and adult plants are treated with a weak solution of copper sulfate, Bordeaux mixture or other copper-based preparations.
- Blackleg is difficult to cure. The easiest way to prevent the disease is to treat the seeds before sowing with strong fungicides (Planriz, Fundazol). The soil with plants can also be sprayed with these preparations or copper sulfate. The chance of saving the cabbage is small, but in some cases these remedies help. If the crops continue to die, they are torn out and burned outside the plot.
- When vascular bacteriosis appears, you can treat the cabbage with brilliant green with iodine. These two substances are mixed in a 1:2 ratio and diluted with 10 liters of water. The second option is to simply use brilliant green with water. 15 drops of brilliant green are enough for a bucket of water.
Before planting and during head development, cabbage can be affected by various diseases. It is impossible to protect young shoots or seeds from all of them. It is better to take preventive measures, first of all, against those diseases that often affect crops.
Cabbage scoop
This butterfly flies only at night and looks like a large moth. Size with spread wings is about 5 cm. Painted in nondescript shades of gray and brown. Over the summer, two generations are born: eggs are laid for the first from mid-May to the end of June, for the second - from mid-July to early September. These dates almost coincide with the periods of flight of white butterflies, which means that you can fight both butterflies at the same time. Eggs are laid according to a similar principle - on the back of the lower leaves.
Cabbage cutworm looks like a large moth
Young moth caterpillars are initially green, but as they mature, they darken: they become grey, brown or almost black. Only at the initial stage of development do they feed on the pulp of the outer leaves. Stronger individuals bite into the heads of cabbage, make passages, and fill them with liquid excrement. Methods for preventing and controlling this pest are the same as for cabbage weeds. However, in the case of cutworms, you cannot be late with protective measures; once inside the head of cabbage, the larvae become invulnerable. Even if you destroy the parasites using pesticides, you will not save the cabbage. Corroded inside, it will not grow further and will become unsuitable for cooking.
Video: garlic tincture against caterpillars
Who eats cabbage: pests
Experienced vegetable growers are able to determine by appearance what pests have infested cabbage beds and choose methods to combat them. This common vegetable has a lot of varieties and varieties, with their own characteristics and characteristics.
Pests of white cabbage
During the growing season, areas with white cabbage have to be processed several times. There are several main pests, they appear at different times and cause damage in varying degrees and forms.
Advice! Experienced vegetable growers recommend dusting areas with cabbage with tobacco dust.
At any stage of growth, cabbage can be damaged or completely destroyed by insects living in the soil.
Pests of cabbage roots
By damaging the root system, pests can cause damage to the future harvest: plants stop growing or die altogether. Cabbage has several dangerous pests that feed on the roots.
Advice! Before planting, the root system of plants is treated with Aktara, Medvetox and similar chemical compounds.
Pests can be detected by deep digging of the soil. It is carried out twice; in spring and autumn, manually selecting insects and their larvae. It is not recommended to organize compost pits and manure heaps in the immediate vicinity of the garden.
Pests of cabbage seedlings
By damaging cabbage at the seedling stage, pests significantly slow down its growth. The heads of cabbage do not set or stop growing completely. In some cases, young plants die. Plants are damaged by both sucking and gnawing insects and their larvae and butterflies.
It is recommended to plant annual flowers along the perimeter of cabbage plantings: arriving large insects and birds destroy the caterpillars. Nettle growing in close proximity helps.
The root system of seedlings is protected before planting by dipping with chemical compounds and placing pesticides in rows and holes. Treatment of plants with already visible signs of damage must be carried out as soon as possible.
Pests of Chinese cabbage
The soft and tender leaves of Chinese cabbage are easily attacked by insects, spoiling the appearance and destroying the plants at the seedling stage. Main pests: fleas and slugs.
To prevent damage, it is recommended to plant at certain times: in early spring or late summer, vegetables grow very quickly. Experienced vegetable growers plant it mixed with tomatoes, onions, and potatoes. Spray with preparations “Aktara”, “Intra-Vira”, “Aktellik”.
Pests of Chinese cabbage
They are able to destroy heads of cabbage in a short period of time. The leaves dry out and die. Plants do not develop fully or die.
Slugs are fought with traditional methods: planks and burdock leaves are laid out in rows. The insects are then collected by hand. Sprinkle the areas with a mixture of salt, dry mustard, wood ash and hot ground pepper.
Pests of broccoli
To control pests on broccoli, folk remedies and aggressive treatments with industrial insecticides are used. There are many pests that prefer this cabbage variety.
The drugs “Fitoven”, “Bitoxibacillin”, “Lepidotsid” and other similar insecticides are popular and effective.
Brussels sprouts
Affected by most common pests of this type of vegetables. Due to the small size of the heads of cabbage, plants die especially quickly when attacked by aphids. Sparrows and pigeons cause damage. To prevent damage, a protective net stretched over stakes is used.
What insects harm cabbage, principles of combating them
Every gardener who grows cabbage knows: cruciferous flea beetles are terrible for newly planted seedlings and young bushes. The cabbage fly also greatly harms them. As soon as the cabbage grows, white butterflies begin to circle over the beds. But this is during the day, and at night cabbage cutworms look for places to lay eggs.
Beautiful moths or butterflies that fly to the light seem harmless, but for the most part they are pests
There are also permanent residents on cabbage - naked slugs; they grow and develop in the garden bed throughout the warm season, and in the fall they even try to climb inside the heads of cabbage to lay eggs there. Some gardeners complain about aphids. To cope with all these parasites, you need:
- Study the habits of pests, which are quite primitive.
- Choose effective means of prevention and control.
- Apply these remedies in a timely manner.
To process cabbage you will need: a sprayer and good preparations, but there are many ways to do without them
At the very beginning of the fight against any pests, you need to understand that there are systemic and contact drugs. Systemic ones are absorbed by the plant and carried with its juices to all parts, including even the root. The pests will die as soon as they start feeding on the treated cabbage. Contact ones kill by contacting the insect directly; the plant itself does not become poisonous. This group includes folk remedies. To many they seem ineffective, which is logical, because it is impossible to spray literally every flea, caterpillar or egg.
The recipes that gardeners share among themselves are best used as prevention. Namely, this is where you should start, without waiting for a problem to arise. If it didn’t work out, the deadlines were missed, insects have already settled on the cabbage and are actively eating it, then proceed to extreme measures - treatment with systemic insecticides.
