How to get rid of cabbage tracks: 5 ways

Summer comes, and with it garden troubles. Pleasant fatigue is replaced by satisfaction. The soul rejoices when you admire the result of your labors. There the cucumbers turn green, here the tomatoes hang, here the cabbage is being poured ... So, what kind of uninvited guests are these? Caterpillars! So you need to urgently do something. They are capable of completely destroying all the landings in three days!

How to get rid of the tracks on the cabbage? I don’t want to water chemistry. Still, then they will eat the cabbages themselves and feed the household. Hands to collect? Come on! It’s good if you have two beds. And if a hundred parts of cabbage are planted? As long as you collect from one side, nothing will remain on the other. We will apply folk methods. After all, the ancestors somehow lived without the use of poison.

We scare away butterflies

If caterpillars appeared on the cabbage, then butterflies recently flied. And we will frighten them away so that later there will be no disaster.

Mesh or spandbond. A mosquito net or a lightweight non-woven fabric should be pulled over the beds. Butterflies fly from above, from the side they cannot crawl. Just make sure that the shelter does not touch the heads of cabbage. Otherwise, the eggs will be laid right through it.

Shell. According to reviews, butterflies are very solidarity. If they see a relative over a head of cabbage, they do not pretend to be busy and fly by. Therefore, folk wisdom recommends sticking sticks into the ground, and hang halves of eggshells on them. Well, sort of like butterflies this. They say the method helps.

True, from a cabbage scoop - not really. She sneezed at all competitors and in general, she was a night priestess. Day does not fly. And your shell to her light bulb. But the whites can be scared off in such a simple way.

Tip. If your shells were gluing birds (this happens), then instead of them hang small pieces of white rags on sticks. Their fluttering in the wind will imitate butterflies.

Soda. Rumor has it that if you sprinkle copious cabbage with ordinary baking soda, then butterflies simply do not sit on them. I like too. Try to perfect the method. After all, powdered heads will fall off the dry heads. Sprinkle cabbage after watering or rain. So soda at least a little linger on the leaves.

Ash. A similar effect has a simple ash. Only it is better not to sprinkle dry, but to make a soap solution on its basis. It adheres well to cabbage leaves, but does not harm a person. But butterflies scare.

Smelling plants smell good with butterflies. They are planted in row-spacings, so that with their aroma they confuse pests. Such herbs include many herbs and pharmacy herbs: dill, fennel, nasturtium, wormwood, caraway seeds, chamomile, tansy.

By the way, these same herbs attract the smell of natural predators - riders and ladybugs, who are happy to destroy the caterpillars and eggs of the cabbage butterflies.

We attract wasps and ants

These insects feed their offspring precisely with caterpillars. But how to attract them to the cabbage beds? Sugar Just a simple sprinkling of sweet powder is too wasteful, and it won't bring any effect.

Better mix a liter of old jam in a bucket of plain water. And then carefully pour the cabbage directly on the leaves with the resulting solution. Wasps and ants will not keep you waiting to respond to the alluring smell. And at the same time they will pick up all the pests.

Some sources even recommend bringing some of the anthill in a bucket with a lid or a tight bag. And then scatter all this stuff into the cabbage beds. They say that goosebumps, going back, will take with them all the tracks.

Tip. Be careful with this method. It would not have been necessary then to remove more ants.

Birds

There are recommendations to limit the movement of cats in the area. Own and neighborly. It seems to be how this contributes to the arrival of birds in the garden. And there they will eat up all the tracks.

The method is very doubtful. First, where can I find such a gorgeous garden, old, overgrown, dense and huge? So that the birds like it there. Secondly, they do not really favor with their attention the caterpillars on the cabbage. Admit it, who at least once saw even ordinary sparrows snooping around the beds? Thirdly, how is it supposed to limit the movement of cats? This is unreal!

We leave this option to the experimenters.

Execute the caterpillars

Now the industry produces biological insecticides. They are absolutely harmless to plants, humans and pets. But fatal to many pests, including caterpillars.

The essence of the method is to bring the solution in a certain proportion and systematically, carefully spray the cabbage. In this case, you must try to ensure that most of the drug fell on the tracks. A predatory nematode gnaws at their bodies and introduces the fungus into the spores. Which, in turn, begins to grow rapidly, affecting the internal organs.

The first results become noticeable after 3 hours after processing. Caterpillars become sluggish, eat less. And within 2 days they die completely.

What is this method good for? The fact that the impact is on all tracks. That is, and leading a nocturnal lifestyle. For example, you will not see a caterpillar of a cabbage scoop during the day. And the drug works at night.

Tip. The disadvantage of this method is only one. The solution can not be stored for a long time, it must be used immediately. And it does not work at temperatures below + 19 ° C.

Folk methods

According to reviews, the caterpillars simply refuse to eat cabbage processed with such infusions. They also advise boiling potato or tomato tops to sprinkle heads of cabbage. But we recommend abandoning such a decoction. The fact is that the tops are quite poisonous. And you should not water it with infusions of those plants that will then be eaten.

How to get rid of the tracks on the cabbage? As you can see, there are a lot of methods. Choose any suitable one and go ahead to save the harvest!

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