How to spray cabbage with chemicals against pests. Cabbage pest control

Cabbage is called the “third bread”. This is one of the most popular vegetables in Russia, but not all gardeners grow it. One of the reasons is that pests also love this plant. I don’t want to fight them with chemicals; collecting them by hand is an unpleasant task. But if you spend a little time studying this issue, understand: when and how to process cabbage, then the chemicals will not cause harm, and folk remedies will be effective.

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

To process cabbage you will need: a sprayer and good drugs, 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 drugs systemic action and contact.

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.

Cruciferous flea beetles: how dangerous the pest is, prevention and control Small (3–5 mm) black bugs are so named for their love of cruciferous plants and their ability to jump. My active work The larvae live in the ground and feed on roots! Adults actively eat succulent leaves. First they settle on wild plants or green manure: rapeseed, mustard, shepherd's purse. When radishes appear in the beds, a whole colony switches to them and can be destroyed already at the cotyledon stage. The next treat we plant for cruciferous flea beetles is cabbage. The seedlings do not have time to take root, and all its leaves already look like a sieve. The worst thing is that pests can destroy it entirely.

Cruciferous flea beetles destroy plants already at the cotyledon stage

Cruciferous flea beetles are very annoying insects, they appear in my garden every year. But it’s easy to fight them, even if there are already a lot of them. Therefore, I will not recommend many folk remedies against this pest. I’ll only tell you about my proven and very simple method:

1. As soon as my cabbage is on the plot, I water it clean water and dust the wet leaves and soil with ash, tobacco dust or a mixture of both.
2. When this protection is washed away by rain or blown away by the wind, I renew it.
3. At the same time I give it to young plants good care so that they grow faster. Flea beetles are no longer scary for mature cabbage. I water, loosen, feed.

Only fresh ash or stored for no more than one year in a closed container and in a dry room helps against fleas, aphids, and slugs. If you have collected ash from a fire or barbecue that has been exposed to rain, then you can use it only as a loosening material. Such ash no longer contains microelements useful for plants and does not have an alkaline reaction dangerous for insects.

I think that on every garden plot You can get wood or plant ash. You don’t need anything else to fight fleas. The product helps well without tobacco dust.

I only used chemicals against these pests once, but then I had real armageddon. I became interested in green manure and sowed the plot with rapeseed. He was completely covered with hordes of cruciferous flea beetles. When I cut down this green manure and planted cultivated plants, the insects, of course, moved on to them. They ate everything: even dill and tomatoes! That’s when we had to spray literally all the crops with Karbofos (60 g per 10 liters of water), and a week later the treatment was repeated. I have been familiar with this drug for many years, and it has never let me down. This was in early June, so by harvest the insecticide had already completely decomposed. But I won’t conduct such experiments anymore. It’s better not to invite pests from all over the area into your garden, but to fight the small local detachment with the help of ash.

Video: prevention of cruciferous flea beetles - planting seedlings under bottles

Cabbage fly: how to detect and fight

Depending on the period of activity, spring and summer cabbage flies are distinguished. The spring one flies out of cover during the flowering period of birch and dandelion, and lays eggs en masse when the lilac blooms. The second wave begins at the end of June, but now the pest is only dangerous late cabbage, because, like flea beetles, it can greatly harm only young and still weak plants.

The cabbage fly is similar to the regular fly, but has a slightly different color

The insect looks like common fly, but a little smaller in size- 6–8 mm. If you look closely, you can find stripes on the abdomen and back. Cabbage is damaged by larvae. The female lays eggs on a stem close to the ground. The born larvae begin to feed on the roots, gnaw through the stem, and penetrate inside it. Unfortunately, pests are more often found on infected cabbage. Newly planted seedlings lie down as if they were broken or look lethargic, but watering does not help.

The whole fight comes down to prevention, and this is very good. After all, the less chemicals we use when growing cabbage, the healthier this vegetable is. There are some tips:

• Maintain crop rotation. The larvae overwinter in cabbage beds; as the weather warms up, they need to feed. By planting cabbage seedlings again in the same place, you will provide this nutrition.
• In autumn, after the temperature drops to +5... +10 ⁰C, dig up the ground. This will destroy wintering sites. The pests are already sleeping, cannot hide and are freezing out. Eat negative side- along with harmful insects, beneficial ones, such as earthworms, appear on the surface and die.
• Before planting cabbage, add Zemlin, Pochin, Grom or another preparation against soil pests to the soil. They need to be distributed evenly over the surface of the bed and mixed with top layer land.
• Immediately after planting the seedlings, place a leaf on each plant thick paper, cutting a hole in it along the diameter of the stem. The leaf should fit snugly to the ground and plant. The cabbage fly will not be able to get to the egg laying site.

A simple and effective remedy for cabbage flies - a sheet of paper with a slot for the stem

Cabbage whites: repellents and methods of combating caterpillars

Even people far from gardening know white butterflies. The first generation flies out in the south - in April - early May, in other regions of Russia - in late May - early June. The second wave, more numerous, occurs at the end of July - August. In the southern regions, the third generation also appears - immediately after the second and continues its life activity until October. Females lay eggs on the reverse side lower leaves. Newly born caterpillars stick together, feed on the juicy pulp, scraping it from the leaf, then crawl throughout the entire head of cabbage and gnaw through literally all the leaves.

White butterfly caterpillars are easy to spot; they are quite large and brightly colored.

This pest can also be controlled with simple and harmless means. Butterflies fly to the smell of cabbage, but it is so subtle that it is easily overwhelmed by brighter aromas. Why not take advantage of this and mislead the pests.

Butterflies love to perch on beautiful and fragrant flowers, but they choose other places to lay eggs

Folk remedies for repelling cabbages:

• Plant marigolds or calendula in dense rows around the perimeter of the cabbage bed. But they will have time to bloom only by the second flight of the butterflies; prepare differently for the first spring.
• At the very beginning of the butterflies' flight, sprinkle the ground under the cabbage with chopped fragrant plants. Suitable: wormwood, tansy, mustard, garlic arrows, mint, oregano, lemon balm, etc. They can be picked and cut with scissors. We dry many herbs for tea in the winter. The remains are perfect for scaring away the first generation of butterflies in the spring.
• If you haven’t dried the herbs and the fresh ones haven’t grown yet, buy tobacco, tobacco dust or shag. These agents also have a deterrent effect.
• Any of the above aromatic herbs or grind a mixture of them, fill liter glass jars or other similar container, fill it with water and place it on the cabbage bed. First, the smell of herbs will rise above the containers, overpowering the cabbage. Then the contents will begin to wander, and even more strong smell like manure. After a week, dilute the slurry from the cans with water (1:5) and use it as a top dressing for any crop. Refill the jars with odorous raw materials and water.
• Dilute a solution of valerian from a pharmacy (50 ml) in 3 liters of water, spray on the leaves at the beginning of each butterfly flight period. The method is very effective; cutworms, cabbage flies, and cabbage flies do not fly up to the cabbage, but it is only suitable for areas that are not visited by cats.

These valerian lovers will dig up the entire cultivated bed and break the cabbage.

Video: processing cabbage with valerian solution

Also, at the beginning of butterfly flight, you can use a biological product - Fitoverm (5 ml per 1.25 liters of water). The solution is absorbed into the leaves and remains there for three weeks. Manufacturers call the drug harmless to humans; cabbage can be used for food within 3 days after treatment. If none of the above helped, or you missed the right moment, the whites have reached your cabbage, caterpillars have appeared, then first try to collect the pests manually yourself or call your household members (husband, father, son, brother) for help. If caterpillars are found on 1-2 heads of cabbage, this can be limited. At severe defeat when there are eggs and larvae different ages , they spread all over the garden bed, after manual collection

or instead treat the cabbage with an insecticide (Karbofos, Decis, Commander, etc.). Be sure to observe the waiting period during which you cannot eat cabbage. Cabbage leaves are very smooth; when sprayed, drops of the solution roll off them to the ground without having time to be absorbed. Until now, soap was added for better adhesion. Available today modern means

- adhesives (Tandem, Liposam, etc.). They not only retain drops on the leaves, but also prevent the drug from being washed off by rain. This butterfly flies only at night and looks like a large moth. The size with spread wings is about 5 cm. It is 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 back side

lower leaves.

Cabbage cutworm looks like a large moth

Slugs overwinter in the egg stage. As soon as the ground thaws, mollusks, barely visible to the eye, begin to feed on plant debris in the ground. After just 2 weeks they can apply significant harm seedlings or germinating seeds of cereals and legumes. Peak activity in mucus occurs at the age of 1.5–2 months, when they begin to reproduce. Having reached their normal size (3–5 cm), individuals feed juicy fruits lying on the ground: cucumbers, zucchini, strawberries, etc. Of course, they like cabbage, under the leaves of which they can also hide from the sun.

A naked slug is not protected in any way from aggressive drugs; even dry air is harmful to it

I fight slugs without any chemicals. The pest has a delicate body, unprotected by any coating. He loves dampness, cannot move on dry soil and thorny obstacles, and dies from contact with any burning or caustic agent. Here you have room for imagination. I sprinkle fallen cabbages around pine needles . But not everyone has the opportunity to get them, so I’ll give a small list effective means

• against slugs:
• Water your cabbage in the morning, not the evening. Slugs come out of hiding when the heat subsides and quickly move along the wet ground. By watering cabbage at night, you unwittingly attract pests to it.
• Powder the soil in the garden bed with dry mustard. It will effectively burn shellfish both when dry and when wet. Buy special slug baits. You can make them yourself from plastic bottles
• . This is a cylinder with the top edge curved outward. The slug crawls along such protection, at the very top it finds itself hanging upside down, falls and, if desired, resumes its path or looks for another object to feed on.

Dig grooves 10–15 cm wide around the cabbage bed. Fill them with material that makes it difficult for slugs to move: sawdust, pine litter, sand, ash, charcoal. However, in an area located in a lowland or near a river, where there is often fog, heavy dew, stagnation, rainwater simple remedies

protections may be ineffective. Use chemical baits Thunderstorm, Predator, etc. When buying a drug, pay attention to the composition. Metaldehyde or products containing it are considered the most effective against slugs.

Video: superphosphate and lime against slugs I found a remedy for slugs and midges in our gardening store - ExtraFlor. In addition to pest control, it also provides other: protects plants from diseases, stimulates their growth, increases productivity. I already wanted to buy it, but the composition cooled me off - white mustard extract. That is, in fact, this is the well-known mustard. The package contains only 1 g, it is diluted with 1 liter of warm water, the price is 33 rubles. With no less success, you can use ordinary powder from grocery store or mustard grown in your own garden and dried. And if you’ve already sprinkled it with dry mustard or sprayed it with infusion, but it didn’t help, then you shouldn’t buy such a drug.

Pests settle in colonies and are easily detected on the surface of the leaf, but can also hide on its reverse side. IN middle lane active from May to September. During this period, up to 20 generations develop. Insects can completely destroy young cabbage by sucking all the juices out of it. Aphids have a small body (3–5 mm) Green colour. There is no chitinous cover, which means that you can fight, like with slugs, by means of contact action.

Aphids settle on the leaf surface in large colonies

Many gardeners use against aphids:

• vinegar solution: 200 ml (9%) per 10 liters of water;
• infusion of ash: 200 g per 10 liters of water;
• soap solution: 100 g of laundry soap and 50 g of tar soap.

You can use plants or their fruits that can cause burns to insects (pepper, garlic, mustard). Composing own recipes, do it first Not a large number of solution and test it on the same leaf with aphids. If the insects are killed and there are no burns left on the cabbage, apply to the entire bed.

Video: preparing ash-soap solution

There is a very simple way to combat aphids in amateur areas. If there are few insects, found only on a few heads of cabbage, then collect them with a sponge and soapy water. Try to do this so that the pests do not fall to the ground, but all end up in a container with soap solution. Aphids are inactive, sit in groups, and cabbage leaves are large and smooth, so the procedure will not cause any difficulties. There is no need to wash off insects with water from a watering can or hose. They will climb the cabbages again.

With a small infestation they will help you cope with aphids soapy water and sponge

Be aware of the extreme fertility of aphids and rapid development. The larva grows from an egg to an adult in 2 weeks. You can destroy the first generation, and a week later see representatives of the second and decide that the remedy did not help. Therefore, any treatment must be repeated several times with an interval of 7–10 days.

If no folk remedies really helped, try treating it with the biological product Actofit (8 ml per 1 liter of water). It has contact and intestinal effects. Good feedback receives Borei (100 ml per 10 liters of water), but this is already an insecticide of contact, intestinal and systemic action. It circulates throughout the plant with its juices for 2–3 weeks, poisoning newly hatching larvae, as well as individuals that you did not see and did not spray or remove using simple folk remedies.

My opinion: if you’re really fed up with pests, you don’t have time to fight them, you go to the dacha once a week, you don’t accept chemicals, then The best way To protect cabbage from all troubles at once is to cover the bed with spunbond or agrofibre. You can buy the thinnest and cheapest one. Immediately after planting the seedlings, you need to install arcs and cover the plantings. The fabric allows light, air and water to pass through well. At the same time, the cabbage will be inaccessible to butterflies, flies, fleas and aphids. Even slugs will stop at the border and get stuck in the folds of the material. Therefore, for weeding and fertilizing, you will have to carefully remove the shelter, checking to see if there are any uninvited guests.

Cabbage has many enemies; some can destroy it at the very beginning of growth and leave the grower without a harvest. However, it is not difficult to fight them. In most cases, simple folk remedies help. The main thing is not to wait for a massive invasion, but to prevent it: scare it away, destroy the first single nests, etc. Then no chemicals will be needed, the cabbage will grow tasty and healthy.

In early spring, in the cabbage beds and the surrounding area, it is advisable to weed out all the weeds, thereby depriving them of food cruciferous flea beetle.

Treating cabbage against cruciferous flea beetle

After the emergence of seedlings, in the case of sowing cabbage directly into the ground (seeds are usually planted directly into the ground only), it is advisable to immediately sprinkle them with ash, tobacco dust, or a mixture of both. You can pollinate the seedlings with ground black pepper and slaked lime. This treatment is carried out in calm weather and as often as possible, preferably after each watering.


This helps a lot from cruciferous flea beetle. Among the chemical preparations for this pest, you can use the drug Actellik. For 10 liters of water you need to add 20 ml of Actellik. For spraying 10 sq. meters of planting usually takes about 1 liter of solution.

Spraying with slurry, a weak infusion of bird droppings, or a decoction of tomato or tobacco tops will also help repel pests from cabbage. A decoction based on tomato tops is made as follows: 1.5-2 kg of tops are poured with 5 liters of water, infused for 3 hours, then boiled for 3 hours, filtered and diluted with water 1:2. For spraying in ready solution add 20 g liquid soap for 5 liters of water.

If you sow herbs near cabbage beds, for example, dill, or other umbelliferous herbs, they will attract natural enemies of cabbage pests. I am very good at destroying cabbage aphids, ichneumon beetle larvae, ladybugs, and hoverflies.

Treatment of cabbage against leaf beetle and cutworm

Against cabbage leaf beetle Dusting the plantings with tobacco dust, ash or slaked lime helps. You can also place sticky traps between plants. Among chemical agents, Actellik is recommended. The biological product Bankol also copes well with this pest.

Cabbage scoop(laid eggs and caterpillars) are best destroyed manually before they penetrate inside the head of cabbage. It is better to collect them in cloudy weather. To destroy the cabbage cutworm chemicals, then you can use such as Actellik, Biorin, Inta-Vir, . It is better to use chemicals if the damage to cabbage leaves is too severe.

Fighting slugs on cabbage

In the fight against cabbage leaves feeding, treatment with a solution helps iron sulfate(1 kg per bucket of water). You can also use a mixture of ash and bleach (2 kg of ash and 4 g of lime per 1 sq. m).

During the entire period of growing cabbage, you need to loosen the rows as often as possible.

And after harvesting the cabbage, it is necessary to remove from the area all the stumps in which any pests may remain.

Fighting cruciferous flea beetle on cabbage, video

The spreading and bright green leaves of cabbage attract many pests; it is attacked by aphids, all kinds of caterpillars or cruciferous fleas. And if you don’t start fighting this whole army of cabbage eaters in time, you may be left without a harvest at all. Moreover, they attack not only the succulent parts, but also love to feast on the roots, leaving the plant without the necessary nutrition.

The chemical industry does not remain in debt, and more and more new products enter the market for garden pest control products every year, but one way or another they can accumulate in the soil, and, most dangerously, in the cabbage head itself. And this can ultimately affect your health, which will be more serious. Therefore, our conversation is devoted to safe means of combating various garden pests, the so-called folk remedies, we will talk about how to properly water with this or that infusion.

White cabbage

IN different stages During the development of a cabbage head, various garden pests may appear on it, and they should be controlled by different means.

If aphids are spotted

Aphids are a voracious pest, and if they attack, you may notice curling of the leaves, white and brown spots appear on them, and over time the leaves may turn a bluish-crimson hue. But you can find out how to get rid of aphids on cabbage

Aphids on cabbage

The plant can no longer fully develop and gain foliage, so it is necessary to urgently get rid of the pest. There are several processing methods, let’s look at the most popular ones:

• Solution 72% laundry soap . This the method will work for a small plantation, you will have to manually process each leaf. To do this, take 1 block of water in a bucket of water, grate it on a coarse grater, and carefully dilute it in water. Then wipe each sheet on both sides with a rag soaked in it. This has a deadly effect on aphids, however, the effect will continue until the first rain or overhead watering. But you can see how to treat aphids with laundry soap

  

  Solution of 72% laundry soap

• Watering with infusion from tomato tops and onion peels. You need to take about half a kilo of peels + 2 kg of green tomato shoots + liquid soap. The husks are poured with boiling water, about 2 liters, and left to infuse for 2 days, the stepsons are also poured with 2 liters of boiling water in a separate container, and left to infuse for 3 hours, when ready, combine everything, and add diluted liquid soap, You can spray the cabbage. But how to use it and how effective this remedy is is indicated in the article at the link.

  

  Tomato tops

• Infusion of tobacco, mustard, ash and liquid soap. You can buy it at a tobacco kiosk smoking tobacco, stock up on mustard powder, ash and any detergent. For infusion, use 1 glass of dry substances, add water room temperature, and leave for a day to infuse. Before watering, add liquid soap for better adhesion. It is also worth learning more about what types of

  

  Tobacco infusion

• A decoction of shag. Many people specifically grow homemade tobacco to further combat various kinds pests, it is effective and absolutely safe remedy will help get rid of not only aphids, but also other voracious insects. To prepare, you need to take half a kilo of dry leaves and pour 2 liters of water over them, put everything on the fire and heat it up, without bringing it to a boil. A little liquid soap is added to the solution, 10 liters of water are added and the composition is ready for processing. This solution can also be sprayed

  

  Decoction of shag

• The simplest, but very effective method control - treatment of leaves with vinegar solution. It helps against various pests, including white butterfly caterpillars. Take 1 tbsp. a spoonful of essence, and dilute it in a bucket of water, then simply water the heads of cabbage from a watering can. The solution gets onto not only the leaves, but also the ground, repelling slugs and other crawling pests. You might also find it useful to know about

The video shows the protection of white cabbage:

Track protection

White butterflies love cabbage very much; they lay eggs in large numbers on the lower part of the leaf, and after a very short time caterpillars emerge from them, very voracious eaters of green matter. They can cause irreparable harm, leaving the plantation without leaves, so you need to deal with them effective fight, including folk remedies:

• Tincture of ash and tar soap. Take a glass of ash + a teaspoon of liquid soap + 5 l warm water. Everything should brew for 24 hours. By clicking on the link you can learn more about how it is used
• The product from chicken droppings is taken in a ratio of 1:20, that is, one part of the droppings should be diluted with 20 parts of water. Here’s how to feed tomato seedlings with chicken manure, and how effective this product is, indicated
• Grind 1 cup each of tomatoes and garlic, add liquid soap and pour everything warm water in the amount of 10 liters. Leave to infuse for a day.
• Take 9 percent vinegar 1 tbsp. and dilute it in 0 liters, there is no need to insist, you can immediately begin processing.

In the video - protection against caterpillars:

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Cauliflower varieties are also susceptible to the same pest infestations as simple cabbage, so controlling them is similar to treating the plantation simple varieties cabbage

But best protection– this is prevention, so in order to significantly reduce attacks harmful insects and crawling snails, take note of these tips:

Helps very well mustard powder from the invasion of slugs - you just need to sprinkle it around the stalk, and your cauliflower will be reliably protected.

If the infestation is obvious and you just can’t get rid of the pests, then very good remedy There will be an ammonia solution - dilute 100 ml of the substance in a bucket of water, and treat not only the foliage, but also the ground around the plants. But how Rinda cabbage is sprayed, and what the best means are, is indicated

Tobacco dust or simply crushed shag will help scare away the white butterfly, and it is known to lay a large number of eggs, from which voracious caterpillars will hatch. Simple vinegar or tobacco infusions will also help in the fight against good harvest cauliflower.

There are a lot of cabbage pests, and the fight against them is not always successful. Enemies include the cabbage fly, the spring cabbage fly, the wavy flea beetle, the cabbage white fly, the cabbage moth, the cabbage moth, cabbage scoop, cabbage aphid, cabbage bug, cabbage root beetle, mole cricket, cutworm, slugs, dusky click beetle and others. Every year, these pests can cause a lot of problems for people who have their own gardens. But still, you shouldn’t rush to persecute chemicals. There are also traditional methods with which you can process plants. How cabbage is treated against pests and methods of pest control will be discussed further.

Did you know?The Greeks believed that cabbage would help relieve alcohol intoxication and will return you to a state of sobriety.

Babanukha, or cabbage leaf beetle, is a black beetle with a green tint and brownish legs. The leaf beetle can damage many plant varieties, including cabbage. It overwinters mainly in the soil, under the remaining remains of plants, in lumps of manure, as well as in other secluded places in the garden area. At the beginning of June, this beetle leaves its wintering place and begins to feed on cabbage leaves. Females can gnaw out entire holes in these leaves, where they begin to lay their eggs.

Among the measures to protect against Babanukha, the following should be noted:

• carefully remove all plant residues after harvesting;
• carry out weed control;
• remove wild radish and field mustard;
• plant seedlings early;
• in the fall, dig up the soil in the bed with seedlings.

This pest is a small fly gray with translucent wings (Fig. 2). The body length of the fly reaches 6 mm. The larva of the spring fly reaches a length of 8 mm. Color: white. These same larvae can damage not only cabbage, but also radishes, turnips, and rutabaga.

Fly pupae prefer to overwinter in the soil. Females may lay their eggs directly in a spot near the stem of the plant. Within a week, the larvae begin to appear. They begin to make their way to the root of the plant and eat it, thus completely damaging the root crops. This pest also makes its way into the cabbage stem.

How to deal with cabbage fly:

• spray the cabbage with burdock tincture (you need to pour 2 kg of crushed burdock leaves into 10 liters of warm, but not hot water, then let it brew for about two days and strain);

Important!Before you spray cabbage against spring flies, you need to remember to promptly get rid of all weeds and plant debris from the garden bed.

• when autumn comes, you need to dig up the soil;
• Be sure to start hilling the crop, as such actions contribute to the growth of additional roots.

The cabbage flea beetle is a black beetle with a golden stripe on each wing. The length of the flea reaches up to 3 mm. The beetle larva has three pairs of legs, a yellowish color and a dark head. The length can reach up to 5 mm.

The wavy flea beetle is very similar to the regular black flea beetle. The difference is in color and habitat (humid environment).

In the spring, the beetle begins to emerge from the soil where it hibernated and settle on wild cabbage. The female lays eggs directly on top of the soil. Over the course of ten days, the larvae form and appear on the eleventh, beginning to feed on the small roots of the cabbage. After just 20 days, the larvae turn into pupae, and after another 15 days new ones appear. wavy flea beetles. The beetles begin to eat away the cabbage, leaving round holes on its leaves. The skin of the plant remains completely intact.

How to deal with fleas:

• you should prepare a decoction of tansy (pour 800 g of dried or 3 kg of fresh tansy and add 10 liters of water, then boil everything for 45 minutes; cool the decoction and leave for 2 hours, then strain);
• Spray cabbage with broth in the evening 2 times a week.

Did you know?This method of flea control should be stopped 2 weeks before the main harvest.

The white butterfly lays eggs on the underside of cabbage leaves.

Then the caterpillars appear and begin to feed on the leaves, and then crawl into nearby crops. Many leaves do not remain intact after the “raid” of the caterpillars, as they simply eat them. After this, you will only be able to see the veins on the plant itself. The whiteweed in the soil itself begins to slow down the growth of the crop, and it stops developing. If the cabbage is severely affected, then heads of cabbage will not form on it.

How to deal with such cabbage pests:

The cabbage moth is a butterfly whose wingspan can reach up to 1 cm.

The front wings have a brownish tint, along which there is a dark stripe. The hind wings of the butterfly are narrow and dark gray in color. The caterpillar of such a cabbage moth can reach a length of up to 1 cm. The caterpillar has a greenish color and eight pairs of legs.

The butterfly usually flies out in late spring and lays eggs along the veins at the bottom of the cabbage leaf. Within a week, you may notice the appearance of caterpillars that begin to eat into the leaves and damage their skin. Noticeable passages appear in the pulp of the leaves. After this, the caterpillar may damage inner leaves and the forming head of cabbage, as well as the top.

Treating cabbage against pests:

• it is recommended to carry out foliar feeding special means which contains potassium chloride (superphosphate);
• you can try to remove all plant residues that remain after harvesting;
• Weed the beds and remove all cruciferous weeds.

The cabbage moth is a butterfly whose wings reach 4 cm.

This pest has dark forewings with brown stripes. The hind wings are light brown. Winter period the insect prefers to spend time in the soil, and then the butterfly appears in early summer. The female lays eggs from below, on the surface of the leaf. After 11 days, the caterpillars hatch from the eggs and begin to eat away the pulp of the leaf, gnawing it and making round holes. You may notice major damage with inside leaf. The caterpillars begin to pupate within a month.

Control of such cabbage pests:

• destroy all weeds;
• try to catch all the butterflies using light attraction;
• dig up the soil in the garden bed;
• try to plant cabbage in early dates before the butterflies start to appear.

This pest is a butterfly whose wings can reach up to 5 cm.

Front wings brown tint with a light transverse stripe. The hind wings are light brown in color. The cutworm caterpillar is green in color and may also have yellowish stripes on the sides of the body.

1. Spray with a decoction of hot pepper. Take 1 kg of fresh pepper (or 0.5 dry red pepper), then pour boiling water over it. The decoction should sit for an hour. Then poured into plastic container and stored in a cool place dark place. Also, before you start spraying, you should add 40 g of laundry soap to 250 ml of broth. Spraying interval - 15 days;
2. A solution of white mustard powder will also help in the fight against these pests. Preparation: add 12 g of powder to 1 liter of water, stir, strain. Before spraying cabbage, 200 ml of solution should be brought to a volume of 1 liter;
3. You can also try to catch butterflies using light;
4. In the fall, don’t forget to dig up/weed your beds/vegetable gardens;
5. In summer, destroy all weeds;
6. Plant cabbage early before the appearance of this pest.

The cabbage aphid is a greenish-colored insect. Aphids attack young plant. On cabbage, you may notice the appearance of black spots that curl the leaves.

Important!If the aphids are not destroyed, the plant may die.

1. Spray with tincture of tomato tops;
2. Treat the cabbage with soap and water and be sure to repeat the procedure after a week;
3. Spray the plant with a tincture against aphids (ash, tobacco dust, a spoonful of mustard, a spoonful of liquid soap - pour 10 liters of boiling water over it. Let it brew for a day, strain).

The pest is an insect that overwinters under fallen autumn leaves and plant remains.

At the beginning of summer, the bug emerges, and the females begin to lay eggs on leaves, pods, and stems of plants. Cabbage that is damaged by the bug turns yellow and characteristic spots form on it. Young cabbage shoots die. The ovaries may also fall off.

Did you know?If you plant wormwood next to cabbage, it can protect the crop from the bug.

• It is recommended to sprinkle the plant with a decoction of wormwood (pour cold water 3 kg of already chopped wormwood and boil for half an hour);
• It is also necessary to plant seedlings in time before the bug appears;
• get rid of weeds and plant debris.

The cabbage rootworm is a dark gray beetle.

The body reaches a length of 3 mm. Larvae usually white and curved horseshoe shape. The beetle overwinters in the leaves of the forest. The females begin to lay eggs in the cabbage stems, making holes in it. The larva feeds on the pulp of the stem, slowly starting to move towards the roots. In this case, a swelling appears on the root (or the so-called gall). One cabbage can carry 30 galls where larval growth occurs. The larvae then move into the soil, where they begin to transform into pupa.

Did you know?Many doctors claim that cabbage may contain substances that can fight the occurrence of cancerous tumors.

Pest control methods:

• remove weeds;
• inspect the roots and initially reject the plant with the growth.

The common mole cricket can reach a length of 7 cm. The insect has a hard body with a soft abdomen and wings, strong jaws without whiskers and highly developed legs, which are adapted for digging passages in the ground. The mole cricket reaches a length of 6 cm and has a rigid body with wings, strong horny jaws; The mole cricket's highly developed front legs are digging - adapted for digging underground passages in the soil.

Did you know?The mole cricket was named so because of its clumsy, densely overgrown dark brown body, like that of bears.

• an insecticidal preparation that is placed in the hole during the immediate planting of cabbage; the hole is filled with soil;
• holes are dug into which horse manure is placed. The mole cricket settles there for the winter, after which the manure is thrown away.

Fight against cruciferous flea beetle without chemicals

The cruciferous flea beetle is a ubiquitous small jumping scoundrel that is black in color with a silvery tint. She attacks first, because she loves to feast on young leaves cabbage seedlings, and especially loves Chinese cabbage. Since the flea flea eats three times its own weight per day, its presence is immediately noticeable: cabbage leaves become covered small holes. If nothing is done, soon all that remains of the leaf will be veins, and then it will die.

What helps against cruciferous flea flea

Method one. If you have a lot of non-woven covering fabric, then you can do it simply: cover the plantings of young cabbage. Access to the bed for the cruciferous flea beetle will be closed. After some time, the seedlings will get stronger, their leaves will become coarser and lose their attractiveness to the pest, and the covering can be removed.
Method two. It is good to sprinkle newly planted cabbage seedlings with ash or a mixture of ash and tobacco dust in equal proportions. The disadvantage of this method is that every time after watering, rain or fog you will have to renew the ash spray. Method three. At the very beginning of the summer season, plant spring garlic in the cabbage bed. When garlic shoots appear, plant cabbage seedlings next to them. The smell of garlic will confuse the cruciferous flea beetle, and it will avoid the garden bed. Method four. The cruciferous flea's dislike for strong odors can play into our hands. Add fir oil to the water for irrigation (10-15 drops per bucket), and to be sure, at first cover the young cabbage plants with the tops of plastic bottles. Method five. Spray the plant with a weak infusion of chicken manure. It will not only help against fleas, but will also serve nitrogen fertilizing for cabbage. The leaves will get stronger and grow faster, and the flea will not be afraid of them.

How to get rid of cabbage caterpillars and cabbage cutworms

Everyone knows the cabbage butterfly or cabbage white butterfly by sight. A white butterfly with a black border on its wings lays eggs on the underside of a cabbage leaf, from which yellowish caterpillars with black spots hatch. These “voracious bellies” then eat our cabbage. How to get rid of cabbage pests without chemicals The cabbage cutworm is a less noticeable gray butterfly that looks like a night moth, but its larvae can often be found inside cabbage heads. Small green caterpillars can seriously compete with the white butterfly in the fight for a juicy leaf.

How to treat cabbage against caterpillars

Method one. If you have wasps on your property, make them useful. Dissolve old jam, compote or just sugar and sprinkle the cabbage with sweet water. The smell will undoubtedly attract wasps, great hunters of sweets, to the cabbage patch. Wasps feed their offspring with caterpillars, so they will not miss the opportunity to “clean” cabbage from them.
Method two. Pour 2 cups of ash and a tablespoon of liquid soap (even better than tar shampoo) with 10 liters of water and leave for 24 hours. Then spray the cabbage with the infusion.
Method three. As soon as you start to notice cabbage bugs flying around, place sticks with eggshells hanging on them around the cabbage bed. They say that butterflies mistake the shell for their own kind and do not lay eggs in places that are already “occupied.”
Method four. Prepare an infusion of tomato tops or onion peel. This simple folk remedy will scare away butterflies with an unusual smell. Liter jar onion peels need to be poured with two liters of hot water and left for two days. Then bring the volume of the infusion to four liters, add a tablespoon of liquid soap. To prepare tomato infusion, 1.5-2 kilograms of tops or shoots are poured with 5 liters of hot water and infused for 3-4 hours. Then boil for another 3 hours, after which it is filtered and diluted with water in a ratio of 1:2. For better adhesion of the infusion, 20-30 grams of laundry or tar soap are also added to it before spraying.
Method five. Sprinkle cabbage leaves with regular baking soda. Caterpillars cannot tolerate it, but it does no harm to plants.

Folk remedies against slugs and snails

Slugs and snails are unnoticed night hunters of our cabbage. During the day they hide in secluded, dark and damp corners of the plot, and in the evening they crawl out into the cabbage beds and eat, eat, eat... In the morning, all the cabbage leaves are in uneven holes, and no one is visible - the slugs are hiding. What to do in this case?

Method one. Good old folk method slug control - bait device. To do this, in the evening (at 20-21 hours), when the slugs begin to emerge from their shelters, trays of kvass, juice, beer or diluted jam with yeast are placed next to the cabbage bed. You can soak old rags or burdock leaves in the “drink” and spread them along the furrows. All night long the slugs will crawl towards the smell, and in the morning you can pick up the pests with your bare hands.

Method two. Sprinkle mustard powder between the cabbages. Slugs can't stand it.

Method three. Prepare a solution of 40 ml. ammonia for 5-6 liters of water and pour from a watering can directly over the leaves and heads of cabbage. After a few minutes, return to the garden bed and repeat the procedure: by this point, all the slugs will crawl out of the ground and out of the cabbage, and the ammonia solution will “hit the enemy directly.”

Method four. Pick and place nettle leaves and stems around the garden bed. Slugs will not climb the nettles to your cabbage. True, it dries out quickly, so the nettle protection needs to be renewed every day, but this is more of a plus than a minus, because you are simultaneously fighting slugs and mulching the plantings with excellent organic material.

Method five. Shredded eggshell, scattered around the cabbage, will become an insurmountable obstacle for the shellfish. But where can you get so many shells? Save all winter!
Method six. Spray the soil in the cabbage bed with hot pepper infusion. To prepare it, you need to grind 100 grams of pepper, add a liter of water and leave for two days. Then bring to a boil and leave for another day. Then squeeze out the pepper and strain the infusion. Half a glass of pepper infusion is diluted in a bucket of water and, as usual, a spoonful of liquid soap is added before spraying. The remaining concentrate can be stored in a tightly sealed container in a dark and cool place.

We destroy armyworm larvae, chafer, cabbage fly

May beetle larvae, fall armyworm or cabbage flies are called underground pests of cabbage, since they destroy not the leaves, but the roots during the formation of the head of cabbage. The result of their work is always obvious: the plant instantly withers, withers and dies. To combat larvae, you can attract them to the garden bed garden ants. They, like wasps, crawl towards sweets, so it makes sense to bury a jar of jam diluted in water next to the withered bush. Black ants will react to the bait and, at the same time, will find the larvae, which are their natural, familiar food.

How to deal with cabbage aphids
The green cabbage aphid usually attacks young plants. Black dots appear on them, leaves curl. If the aphids are not destroyed, the plant will soon die. Measures to combat cabbage aphids:
Method one. Spraying with infusion of tomato tops, prepared in the same way as when fighting caterpillars.
Method two. Treat the plants with soapy water (300-400 grams of soap per 10 liters of water), repeat the procedure after a week.
Method three. Spray the cabbage with a complex infusion against aphids. To prepare it, pour a glass of ash, a glass of tobacco dust, a tablespoon of mustard and a tablespoon of liquid soap into 10 liters of hot water and leave for 24 hours. Then strain and use on the pest.

Universal methods for controlling cabbage pests

Almost all cabbage pests are not happy with the smell herbs, so the best way to get rid of them is to plant dill, carrots, parsley or celery seeds, mint, rosemary, sage, basil or cilantro next to the cabbage. The smells of these herbs and seeds will repel slugs, fleas, butterflies and aphids, but will attract their natural enemies - ladybugs, ichneumon beetle, lacewing. In addition to herbs and vegetables, flowers can also help in controlling cabbage pests. Place beds with marigolds or pyrethrum next to the cabbage beds, plant one nasturtium flower between the cabbage beds. Cutworms, cabbageweeds, and aphids will forget the way to your site. If you are already late with planting “fragrant helpers”, and pests are attacking, use universal recipe a decoction that is not to the taste of almost all enemies of the garden: chop 700 grams of unpeeled garlic bulbs, scald with 10 liters of boiling water and boil for 2-3 hours. Then strain, dilute with water (1:1) and water your beds.