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- Aphid on cabbage
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- Fighting aphids with folk methods
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- Homemade Aphid Recipes
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- Pesticides from insect pests
How to deal with aphids on cabbage, an individual solution, involves the use of chemicals, folk remedies. Aphid affects any kind of cabbage, the colonies hide on the bottom of the leaf. Cool weather, heavy rains restrains the mass distribution of pests. In other cases, gardeners have to take emergency measures.
Aphid Wrecking
Cabbage beds populate a separate type of pest - cabbage aphid. The body of the small insect is green with a yellowish coating. In the middle of summer, winged individuals appear - sexually mature females, males that can migrate throughout the land, causing irreparable harm to crops, but lay eggs only on cabbage.
From May to July exclusively females are born, in the last summer month males appear. Fertilized young females lay eggs that will winter. In early spring, larvae will appear from them, which will rush to occupy the cabbage.
The aphid's life cycle is extremely short, but is offset by its high fecundity. For the entire warm season, up to 20 generations are replaced. Each time the female produces 40 eggs. The development of larvae in an egg lasts about 2 weeks. Immediately after birth, the aphid cubs begin wrecking - they suck the juices from the leaves.
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Damaged leaves turn yellow, curl, dark spots appear on them. Development, growth, heading out are slowing down. Weak seedlings simply die. How to process cabbage from aphids is the most important issue that will have to be resolved.
Folk methods of struggle
To prevent infection of the aphids of the future crop, it is necessary:
- in the fall, collect all the pokers from cabbage, cruciferous weeds, burn;
- in the spring in the beds with cabbage to plant umbrella crops, a bright representative is dill. Plants are attracted by insects that help kill aphids. The best partner in this business is a ladybug.
To get rid of aphids on cabbage by folk remedies, you need to choose an effective recipe, carry out processing in accordance with the rules. The most suitable time for the procedure is early morning, late evening. The weather should be dry, calm. The following are the most popular folk remedies.
Tobacco
Cabbage aphid is afraid of smell tobacco. To combat it, you need to sprinkle cabbage with concentrated tobacco broth. It will take 10 g of crushed dry tobacco. Fill raw materials with 5 liters of water, insist a day. Put on fire, add the same amount of liquid, boil for 2 hours. Processed heads of watering cans, spray.
Vinegar
The simplest tool is aphid vinegar. The pungent odor causes pests to leave the beds, to flee. The solution is prepared immediately before use. Sprinkle the cabbage from all sides, paying particular attention to the bottom of the leaf. A bucket of water will need 200 ml of table vinegar, or 100 ml of essence. Add 40 g of any soap.
Ammonia
Instantly removes ammonia from the beds. Sprinkle cabbage with this tool is necessary 1 time in 2 weeks. Excess nitrogen leads to impaired vegetable growth, leaf deformation. 50 ml are diluted in 10 l of cool water ammonia, 100 g of soap. It is necessary to water the plant from a watering can with a wide nozzle so that the spray flows on the lower part of the leaves.
Ash and spices
Cabbage aphid is afraid ash, cinnamon, pepper. When combining these components, an effective remedy for aphids on cabbage is obtained:
- mix cinnamon, red, black pepper in equal proportions, add 200 g of wood ash;
- separately diluted in 1 liter of warm water 200 g of laundry soap;
- add spices and 9 l of cool water, mix thoroughly.
Processing is carried out twice with a frequency of 3 days. Nothing more is needed to destroy the aphids. For prevention, repeat the procedure once a month.
Tar soap
Aphids on cabbage promotes the growth of pathogens. Rot, mold appears. Tar soap not only eliminates aphids, but also eliminates the consequences of its vital functions, and contributes to the rapid restoration of leaves. Useful especially tar soap on cauliflower. Dilute in 1 liter of warm water 100 g tar soap. Add 9 liters of cold water. Spray heads, legs from the spray gun.
Folk control measures - a safe way to destroy pests. The list of effective homemade drugs goes on and on. In addition to the above components, they use onion peel, potato, tomato tops, wormwood, tansy and much more.
Other folk remedies
Popular and effective are also:
Professional drugs
You can save cabbage from pests by using biologically active drugs, chemical insecticides. Popular are:
Deltamethrin
A broad-spectrum insecticidal agent. It blocks the transmission of nerve impulses, causes paralysis, death. A minimal amount of poison is enough to cause death. It takes effect during processing, retains properties for about 20 days.
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On the basis of deltamethrin, preparations of Decis Pro, Fas, Atom are produced. Before use, prepare the solution according to the instructions, diluting the concentrate in cool water. The plant is treated with a spray gun.
Spark
You can poison aphids insecticide spark. Available in several variations, in the names there is a prefix - Golden, Bio, Double effect. It is produced in the form of concentrated liquid, powder, compressed tablets.
Before spraying, prepare a solution. Protection of cabbage after processing is valid for 20 days. During this time, adults, larvae of all ages die. Females do not lay new eggs.
Important!
To consolidate the effect, re-treatment is carried out after 15 days, then for prophylaxis once a month the entire growing season. The break between the last spraying and harvesting should be at least 20 days.
Pyrethrum
The biological product is based on the action of a substance obtained from a special kind of chamomile. The drug is safe for humans, does not affect the development of cabbage, but is fatal for aphids. Pyrethrum is bred in water; spraying is carried out once every 2 weeks during the entire growing season of the vegetable.
Karbofos
You can save cabbage from a strong aphid infection with Karbofos. A wide-spectrum organophosphate insecticide is used on any horticultural crops from various pests. Destroys adults, larvae of different ages.
Important!
When working with a strong toxic drug, rubber gloves, a respirator, protective clothing should be used. It is necessary to carry out processing in calm weather.If these rules are violated, poisoning occurs.
The fight against aphids Karbofos is carried out 1 time. Pests die in the first 2 hours. The protective effect lasts 20 days or more, depending on weather conditions.
Preparations from aphids can kill pests in a few hours. However, do not forget about their toxicity to humans, other living things. Strict adherence to instructions is required. Before use, weigh the pros and cons.
Cabbage aphid is afraid of folk remedies. I never use chemistry, but I experiment with folk recipes all the time. If there is nothing at hand, but you need to process it - vinegar and any soap. There is wood ash in the farm - there’s nothing more to look for.
It is scary to use strong insecticides on cabbage. Then you have to eat all this. An exception if processing is carried out 1 time at the beginning of summer, and harvest will have to be done at the end of August. I did that. Used the usual Aktara. Poison Colorado beetles, noticed pests on the cabbage. At the same time, it’s processed head.
We spray the entire warm season once a week with various folk remedies, constantly alternating. Around the beds with cabbage we plant marigold, dill, parsley. Excellent biological protection.
I process the cabbage with garlic infusion, when the arrows appear, I throw them under the heads of cabbage. It helps very well, do not suffer for a long time.
I also like garlic. I plant it in different parts of the garden. Such a protection for all beds. I additionally treat cabbage with a solution of tar soap.
When sowing, I process cabbage seedlings by Respect. Nothing else takes this muck. Of course, you can just take insecticides, but Respect simply has penicuron in its composition, as additional protection against diseases, so for now we’re saving it