There are many pests of cabbage. Gardeners who prefer folk simple means of dealing with them will be interested in information on how to toothpaste saved harvest cabbage.
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insecticidal properties
The toothpaste composition includes the following components:
- fluorine compounds;
- sodium lauryl sulfate;
- mint extracts, peppermint, lemon, thyme, nettle, marigold, St. John's wort, camomile and other herbs.
Too much sodium lauryl sulfate can cause an allergic reaction, even in humans, and this is dangerous for the component pests.
The drug made from a toothpaste, cabbage protect against such pests as:
- Crucifer flea. This black beetles, ranging in size from 0.5 to 3 mm. They are most active in spring, transplanting period in the open ground. They eat them young leaves and stems, quickly jumping from plant to plant. Formed Kocani this pest is less dangerous.
- Caterpillar shovels. 3-4 cm long, gray or green color with longitudinal stripes. There en masse and gnaws leaves and veins.
- Diamondback moth caterpillar. Insect small, yellowish. 2-3 caterpillars on one young plants can damage the apical ground, and head does not start up.
- Caterpillar Belyanko. Is white, green or yellow color, length - 3.5 cm. Can gnaw passages in the cabbage. As a result, their ability to live a head rots from the inside. The plant will die if it attacks more than 3 insects.
These pests develop in 3-4 generations. They are dangerous to all kinds of different cabbage ripening.
How to prepare and apply the solution
The solution is to do so:
- In 10 liters of warm water to dissolve 3 tablespoons (70 g) toothpaste mix.
- Let it brew for 2-3 hours.
- Mix.
Despite the fact that the product is made from the chemical industry, it is much safer to store ready-made insecticides. You can take a few used tubes, cut the top of each - there is always a little bit of toothpaste and soak them in water. The working solution should be cloudy. If you make it too concentrated, it can harm the young plants.
Some gardeners claim that to be effective means to add 1 tbsp spoon liquid soap.
A solution of toothpaste is recommended to use a few times per season:
- In early spring, shortly field transplanting, when the average temperature reaches 12 +... + 14 ° C - from crucifer flea beetles.
- One week after the first treatment.
- In the first decade of June - by whiteflies.
- In July - from flea beetles and cutworms (sprayed late varieties).
The first 2 treatment is best done with a solution prepared by mint paste. In order to prevent the procedure is performed 1 time in 7-8 days, but if a lot of pests, - every 4-5 days, 3-4 times in a row. The drug does not kill the pests, it discourages harmful butterflies, and they choose to lay their eggs elsewhere. If the egg has already postponed cabbage hatched caterpillars do not want to feed on its leaves and go to another territory.
Spray the bed of a better evening in dry calm weather, focusing on the bottom of the leaves. After treatment, the cabbage can be safely have fresh and after heat treatment.
For crop failure led naked slugs. They reproduce quickly, hiding in hot weather under the leaves, eat away at their holes. Moving on plants, molluscs leave a trace in the form of thick mucus, under which the cabbage tissues do not receive oxygen and die, and the growth of all of head stops.
Protection against slugs will be more effective if at the same time spraying toothpaste soil near the cabbage to treat mustard powder, egg shell and ground black pepper.
A solution of toothpaste protects against any pest species from the family Cruciferae, Solanaceae Phytophthora reduces distribution and a good dressing for houseplants.
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