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Summer comes, and with it the garden troubles. Pleasant fatigue gives way to satisfaction. The soul rejoices when you admire the result of your labors. There the cucumbers turn green, then the tomatoes are hanging, here the cabbage is poured ... So, what is this even for the uninvited guests? Caterpillars! So after all it is necessary to do something urgently. They are able to completely destroy all landings in three days!
How to get rid of caterpillars on cabbage? Chemistry do not want to water. Still, then head to feed themselves and feed the household. Hands to collect? Come on! Well, if you have two beds. And if weaved cabbage planted? While on one side you collect, on the other there is nothing left. We will use folk methods. After all, the ancestors somehow lived without the use of poison.
Scare away butterflies
If caterpillars appeared on cabbage, it means that only recently butterflies flew. Here we are going to scare them away so that later there will be no misfortune.
Grid or spandbond. Above the beds it is necessary to tighten the mosquito net or lightweight non-woven material. Butterflies fly from above, from the side they can not climb. Just make sure that the shelter does not touch the heads. Otherwise the eggs will be laid right through it.
Shell. According to reviews, butterflies are very united. If they see a relative over a head of cabbage, then they do not pretend to be busy and fly by. Therefore, the proverbial wisdom recommends sticking sticks into the ground, and putting halves of egg shells on them. Well, sort of like butterflies it. They say that helps method.
True, from the cabbage scoops - not very. She sneezed on all competitors and in general, she is a night priestess. It does not fly during the day. And your shells to her damn. But whites it is quite possible to scare away in such a simple way.
Council If your shells were pecked by birds (it happens), then instead of them hang small pieces of white rags on sticks. Their fluttering in the wind will mimic butterflies.
Soda. Rumor has it that if you sprinkle plenty of cabbages with ordinary baking soda, then the butterflies simply do not sit on them. And I like it. Try to improve the method. After all, the powder will fall down from dry heads of cabbage. Sprinkle cabbage after watering or rain.So soda at least a little linger on the leaves.
Ash. Simple ash has a similar effect. Only it is better not to scatter it dry, but to make a soap solution based on it. It adheres well to the leaves of cabbage, but does not harm people. But the butterflies scares.
Not bad coping with butterflies strongly smelling plants. They are planted in between the rows, so that their aroma, they confused the pests. Such plants include many spicy and pharmaceutical herbs: dill, fennel, nasturtium, wormwood, cumin, chamomile, tansy.
By the way, these same herbs attract the smell of natural predators - equestrians and ladybirds, which are happy to destroy the caterpillars and eggs of cabbage butterflies.
We attract wasps and ants
These insects feed their offspring with caterpillars. But how to attract them to cabbage beds? Sugar. Only a simple sprinkling of sweet powder is too wasteful, and the effect will not bring.
Better to stir in a bucket of plain water a liter of old jam. And then thoroughly pour the cabbage directly on the leaves of the resulting solution. Wasps and ants will not take long to respond to the alluring scent.And at the same time pick up all the pests.
Some sources even recommend bringing a piece of an anthill in a bucket with a lid or a tight bag. And then spill all this stuff over the cabbage beds. They say that the ants, going back, will take with them all the caterpillars.
Council Be careful with this method. It would not have had to then bring more and ants.
Birds
There are recommendations to limit the movement of cats on the site. Own and neighbor. It seems to be how it contributes to the arrival of birds in the garden. And there they will drive up all the tracks.
The method is very doubtful. First, where is now to find such a gorgeous garden, old, overgrown, thick and huge? To the birds like it. Secondly, not very much they favor the attention of caterpillars on cabbage. Admit it, who has ever seen even simple sparrows dart across the beds? Thirdly, how is it supposed to limit the movement of cats? This is unreal!
Let's leave this option to the experimenters.
Execution of tracks
Now the industry produces insecticides of biological effects. They are absolutely harmless to plants, humans and pets.But destructive for many pests, and caterpillars as well.
The essence of the method is to bring the solution in a certain proportion and systematically, carefully sprinkle the cabbage. At the same time, one should try to get the most part of the preparation on the tracks. The predatory nematode gnaws their bodies and brings the spores of the fungus inside. Which, in turn, begins to grow rapidly, affecting the internal organs.
The first results are noticeable after 3 hours after treatment. Caterpillars become lethargic, eat less. And within 2 days they die completely.
What good is this method? The fact that the impact is on all the tracks. That is, on leading nocturnal lifestyle. For example, the caterpillar of the cabbage scoops in the afternoon you will not see. And the drug works at night.
Council There is only one minus of this method. The solution can not be stored for a long time, it should be used immediately. And it does not work at temperatures below + 19 ° C.
Folk methods
According to reviews, caterpillars simply refuse to eat cabbage, processed such infusions. And it is also advised to boil potato or tomato tops in order to spray the heads of cabbages. But we recommend to refuse such broth. The fact is that the tops are quite poisonous. And it is not necessary to water it with infusions of those plants that will later be eaten.
How to get rid of caterpillars on cabbage? As you can see, a great many methods. Choose any suitable, and forward, to save the harvest!
Video: how to protect the cabbage from pests
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