How to protect cabbage from pests: you only need soda - simple methods

05.02.2024 13:00

Everyone knows that cabbage without protection from the gardener is too easy a target for pests.

As it turns out, sometimes complex measures are not required.

Ordinary soda can demonstrate the required level of effectiveness, says Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert at the online publication BelNovosti, landscape designer and agronomist.

How to use the product correctly

Against cruciferous flea beetle

Not everyone knows that this pest can destroy a whole bed of cabbage in just a few days. Therefore, it is worthwhile to enrich the hole with a mixture of a pinch of soda and pepper during planting.

You can also periodically dust the vegetable with ash.

cabbage
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Cabbage fly

This pest also has an extremely negative impact on the development of cabbage. Therefore, it is necessary to mix soda with ash and tobacco dust.

The vegetable is sprinkled with this mixture.

Aphid

If you want to protect your plantings from this pest, you need to spray the cabbage periodically. To do this, take four spoons of soda per ten liters of water.

Earlier we talked about how experienced gardeners use mushroom remains on their plots .

Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor
 
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert / Belnovosti

Content
  1. How to use the product correctly
  2. Against cruciferous flea beetle
  3. Cabbage fly
  4. Aphid