If you have noticed on cabbage of small dark flea beetles, then immediately prepare for fight for harvest as this wrecker, most likely, - cruciferous midge. If to stay idle, then these insects can ruin all seedling as soon as possible.
Cruciferous flea beetles - the small jumping bugs of black or green color having convex back and thick back pads. These insects quite harmlessly look, however in fact these midges are capable to cause notable loss to gardeners as the plants belonging to family of cruciferae family - favourite delicacy of these wreckers: in total in day they can ruin young shoots completely.
Cruciferous flea beetle - fight measures
So, as soon as you have noticed these insects on cabbage, as it has been told above, immediately start fight against them. Not bad many folk remedies, for example, one of the most effective - dust mix (normal road) and naphthalene cope with cruciferous flea beetle. Everything that needs to be made, it to mix these ingredients in equal proportions, to put mix in gauze bag and to pritrusit the soil around plants. Has well proved also mix of ashes, tobacco dust and slaked lime.
As for national recipes for spraying of cabbage from flea beetles, cindery mix is effective. It is necessary to fill in liter of ashes with three liters of water, to add a little liquid soap (teaspoon), to mix and allow to infuse about three-five hours. After time to spray plants (it is better to do it early in the morning). It is necessary to carry out the procedure not less than three times with five-day breaks.
Well frighten off these wreckers and other infusions for spraying, for example, acetic (glass of 9% of vinegar for water bucket), garlic (glass of the crushed garlic on five liters of water).
In general, if you do not wish to know problems with such wrecker as cruciferous flea beetle, then you need to carry out prevention measures against these wreckers. For example, before jumping of seedling of cabbage around beds you can plant fennel, potatoes or caraway seeds, and in furrows to lay wormwood branches.