Cabbage is one of the most universal vegetable cultures on personal plot. It is ideal for preparation of various dishes and perfectly keeps the tastes even after heat treatment. However, that to grow up it, it is necessary to make certain efforts. Cabbage is constantly threatened by various wreckers and diseases. One of such wreckers is the cabbage plant louse.
The cabbage plant louse represents the small insect of grayish color who is not exceeding 3 mm in length. At the beginning of summer she breeds on weeds or cultural plants of family of cruciferae family. Then with the advent of wings flies on the growing cabbage and begins to exhaust juice from leaves. It often leads to their full drying and stops of head of cabbage in development. During the season about 15 generations of plant louse can develop. This insect on the cabbage remains or weeds winters. For fight against plant louse on cabbage it is necessary to execute number of preventive actions, and in certain cases even to use chemical medicines.
For disposal of plant louse on cabbage several options of preparation of broths and infusions exist folk remedies. First of all, it is possible to prepare infusion from potato and tomato tops of vegetable. For this purpose fill in with boiled water collected tops of vegetable and cover. In two days add to infusion of laundry soap or the washing means for the best adhesion with cabbage leaves. Then water or you oprysnit the struck plants. Such processing can be carried out every 20 days.
Also broths and infusions can be prepared from onions peel, ashes, camomile or tobacco dust. In addition regularly spray cabbage with soap solution with interval of 10-12 days at the rate of 300 g of soap on 10 l of water.
If folk remedies do not help, try to use insecticides. Among the most effective for fight against plant louse on cabbage such medicines as biorin, kinmix, carbophos are known. They are used according to the instruction and not later than 30 days before harvesting.
But fight against plant louse can be begun with the spring. For this purpose plant cabbage near tomatoes – their smell frightens off these insects wreckers. In addition it is necessary to attract useful insects who eat plant louse on the kitchen garden. For example, larvae of ladybug, flies-sirfid or lacewing. All these insects eat flowers of carrots or celery therefore these vegetable cultures need also to be put near cabbage.
And the most important – in the fall after harvesting remove all cabbage remains from kitchen garden: stumps, leaves. It is also necessary to make weeding and to clear the site of weeds. It is better to dig over the soil before winter that will help with fight against many insects wreckers who winter in top layers of the earth.