How to treat cabbage from pests with folk remedies?

Pests of cabbage are few. However, it is difficult to fight with them - any gardener who has experience in growing cabbage will tell you about it.

This article will give you useful information on how to protect cabbages from pests without using any insecticides.

Protection of cabbage from pests by folk remedies

If you want to not only get rid of insects, but also to keep your plants environmentally friendly, use the following means:

1. Aphids are an omnivorous insect that does not abhor a cabbage. It sucks the juice from its young leaves, as a result of which the plant stops in development. But the worst thing is that the population of aphids increases very quickly, especially if the weather is warm. Fight insects with spraying. A glass of wood ash is mixed with 10 liters of water, then there is added mustard powder and any liquid soap (1 tablespoon). The resulting solution is sprinkled with cabbage leaves from the underside. Also effective are the treatments of those plant sites that are especially beloved by the aphids.
2. Butterfly-cabbage soup was not in vain received such a name. The greatest harm to plants is caused by caterpillars, which appear from eggs laid by it. Insects eat leaves, completely destroying the future harvest. The cabbage scoop also acts like a night butterfly, the larvae of which love cabbage very much. Against these pests use a folk remedy, like a solution of 2 cups of ash and 1 tablespoon of liquid soap on a bucket of water.
3. Cabbage fly bothers the plants, beginning in mid-May. This insect lays eggs on the stalk of cabbage, and after a week of them appear larvae. They are the greatest danger: larvae bite into the stem and roots of the plant, gnawing at them the moves, and as a result, the cabbage is killed. Begin the first treatments as early as possible to prevent the cabbage fly from laying eggs. To do this, prepare a dry mixture of a teaspoon of pepper, 100 g of wood ash and the same amount of tobacco dust. Spray the mixture with all the plants on the bed, and after the procedure, loosen the top layer of the soil.
4. The cruciferous flea is no less dangerous: it eats delicate young cabbage leaves, which then dry up. That's why you need to start fighting with the flea from the moment of the first shoots. So, against this pest of cabbage the following folk remedy will be effective. You need to prepare a solution that includes 10 liters of water and 1 glass of tomato stepsons, potato leaves and chopped garlic. Allow the solution to stand for several hours, and then strain and add 1 tablespoon of liquid soap (you can use any). Damp the cabbage leaves with the resulting liquid. Protection of cabbage from this pest is possible with the use of vinegar. A cruciferous flea will leave the bed if the cabbage is treated with a glass of acetic essence dissolved in a bucket of water.
5. Slugs and snails are not averse to eating cabbage, and they are omnivorous: they consume both leaves and roots. They are able to scare off a mixture of wood ash, table salt, mustard powder and ground pepper.

How else from folk remedies can cabbage be treated against pests?

In addition to the methods described above, cabbage and others are effective against pests, for example, bay leaf. It is used in the form of infusion, you can add carnation. The decisive factor here is the smell, unpleasant for most harmful insects.

Against cabbage pests, pollination of its leaves with tobacco dust, ash or lime-pushonka helps a lot.