Garden radish – early vegetable culture which begins to yield harvest of one of the first. Juicy fruits, ostrenky on taste, are incredibly useful and tasty. They can be used for salads, okroshka and other dishes. The garden radish is quite often attacked by various wreckers who are capable to destroy harvest in few days or to seriously spoil it, having made unsuitable for consumption.
Main wreckers of garden radish: to find and neutralize
Most often the garden radish is attacked by cruciferous flea beetles who for the short period of time make set of openings in tops of vegetable. All this negatively affects quantity of harvest. Flea beetles have absolutely small sizes of body with the expressed metal gloss. As a rule, insects one-color.
The spring cabbage fly, despite the name, spoils also garden radish. Females do layings of eggs in the soil from which larvae 6-8 mm long of gray or white colors appear. Larvae move closer to root crops and begin to eat them actively. Over time they extend also to stalks. If not to take measure, the harvest will be spoiled.
The rape bug eats any cruciferous plants including garden radish. As bugs winter under foliage, they become more active at once after warming. Females do layings directly on foliage. The damaged plants turn yellow and wither.
The main thing is to clean thoroughly kitchen garden in the fall. The less will be last year's leaves, the probability is lower that there will be wreckers in large numbers. But it, unfortunately, is not always enough.
The cabbage pyralid leading nocturnalism eats cabbage, garden radish, turnip, also with pleasure absorbs landings of turnip, garden cress, horse-radish and radish. The pyralid has appearance of small butterfly, wings brown with strips. Caterpillars of cabbage pyralid eat leaves in large number. Slugs live on cruciferous plants, especially on young people. Wreckers spoil mainly garden radish foliage. Slugs live long and breed rather well for this reason it is important to carry out processing of the put cultures in time.
Manual gathering of slugs will not give due effect, they can migrate from kitchen garden in kitchen garden, to extend thereby to big sites.
Shchelkuna or wireworms eat all root crops including radish. As their presence is ignored often by summer residents, upon harvesting the considerable loss is noted. In some areas huge number of wreckers who have appearance of orange thin worms, by something reminding copper wire is observed.
Methods of pest control of garden radish
With cabbage flea beetle it is possible to fight against the ashes help. Strew a little ashes on leaves and the earth. You carry out processing several times a week to total disappearance of wreckers. In gardening shops in wide assortment complex medicines are provided. Usually they are issued in the form of tablets or ampoules which should be parted in water. The method of application is in detail specified on packing – it is impossible to do solution more concentrated, otherwise the garden radish can die. Do not forget to paint periodically hotbeds which elements are executed from tree. Otherwise emergence not only wreckers, but also development of set of diseases in garden radish is possible.