I was very fortunate that my parents had a cottage, so I from childhood loved to dig in the garden and gardening. Today I was almost 62, but I love to garden, no less. We can say that this is my life.
During his long "career" gardener I have tried many methods to control caterpillars and today I want to tell you about the ones that really helped me.
1. deterrent method
The method on which young people laughing, but that really works. It is an egg otpugivalkah. It works as follows.
As we all know, bring caterpillars on cabbage white butterflies - white butterfly. Needless insect that sits on the leaves, no damage does not work. But here comes from a caterpillar eggs, are a huge problem.
Therefore, we need to scare off these butterflies from our cabbage. To do this, we take the whole eggshells and puts it on a thin stick. The shell should be bright white.
Butterfly, taking the shell of their relatives, will not fight for the hive and fly farther.
When I tested the method, I made two beds with cabbage in various parts of the site. (
to the caterpillars later could not crawl from the garden on a bed). To my surprise, it really worked.2. Falls on caterpillars swarm of wasps
This method is based on hatred of wasps and caterpillars. The 10-liter bucket of water diluted with about 1 kg. sugar and mix thoroughly. Get sticky solution was treated with cabbage. Located in the vicinity of the wasps fly and immediately begin to destroy the caterpillars.
However, there is one significant drawback, this method allures great number of biting insects, so use it on a small summer cottage dangerous.
3. Masking the smell of cabbage
White butterfly - our main enemy is planting cabbage smell. It based on this and the method. If we disguise the natural smell of cabbage, insect simply can not find it.
To do this, use a variety of different decoctions and infusions, but the most effective - from the dry onion peel.
Take a 5 liter glass jar and fill up to half its husk. Fill the shells with boiling water and leave for 2 days in the pantry or another dark room. After the broth is present, it must be diluted further 5 liters of water.
Get the solution you need to handle all the cabbages. Spray as carefully as possible, our task is to smash completely natural odor.
4. The classic way - ashes
This method is used by many gardeners because quite effective. and he helped me. Briefly tell about it.
About 500 grams of ash dissolve (Carefully stir until no more or less homogeneous fluid) a 10-liter bucket with water and then add some natural crushed solid or liquid soap. A solution ready for use.
Plus this method is that we do not only destroy the insects, but also to some extent, to fertilize the soil.
5. We call on the aid of ants
An unusual, but at the same time efficient way, which is associated with some risk. Apply it is only in the event that you are not worried aphids.
Since ants devour the larvae caterpillars can throw an army of these little workaholic cabbage. Enough to dig up some earth from ant-hill and sprinkle with a number of cabbage. The larvae will be destroyed, but the risk of aphid increase significantly.
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