Spring time, hardly sprouted cabbage roots, it is immediately attacked by a small, but very voracious pest - cruciferous flea. It is named after the fact that it settles on cultivated plants from the family of cruciferous, and also on similar weeds - radish, trouser, turnip, shepherd's bag, mustard .
How to save cabbage from a cruciferous blossom?
It is very important not to miss the moment when insects only appear on young plants, since without treatment, they can perish for some 2-3 days. The struggle against cruciferous flea in cabbage is concluded both in agrotechnical methods and in chemical processing.
You can protect cabbage from the ubiquitous cruciferous blossom if you plant it on a wet plot. If this is not possible, then you should water the cabbage beds as often as possible - seedlings will do it, but the insects will go away, because they do not tolerate high humidity. Very popular folk remedies used on cabbage from cruciferous fleas. Firstly, it is the planting of plants next to the cabbage, which intensively produce phytoncides (nasturtium, cumin, marigold, garlic, etc.). Secondly, it is necessary to plant seedlings in the ground before the flea has not yet activated, but this will happen when the thermometer is above 15 ° C.
The insect very much does not like "dirty" food, that is, if cabbage leaves are torn with ashes or even ordinary road dust, it will leave the site. For best efficiency, crushed tobacco can be added to the dust.
Good help from cruciferous flea-cabbage simple drugs, not harmful to humans - it's vinegar laundry soap, tobacco. They are diluted in a certain concentration with water and sprayed. As a sticky trap, use solidol, which is spread on cardboard sheets and placed on cabbage beds.
From aggressive chemistry, which requires careful application, "Aktara", "Sherpa", carbofos are allowed. But they are used only in medium and late varieties, but the early ones will have to be treated with gentle methods.