It's not easy being a summer resident. Since the work on the site is always a lot and it is very diverse. It’s not just about planting seeds and harvesting, as some city dwellers might think. And the summer resident needs to work well day after day to collect a decent harvest of conventional cabbage.
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How to water cabbage from pestsThey want to destroy every single one of them. After all, moths, aphids, bedbugs and flies are also happy to eat delicious plants. And they do not care how much the owner of the site invested time and effort here.
Cabbage is loved not only by people, but also by a variety of insects. And if a person tries with all his might to grow and collect an excellent harvest, then pests seem to compete with each other in order to destroy this very crop. So they have to be stopped.
An experienced gardener says that if you do nothing, the pests will definitely win. To prevent this from happening, he tries to get out of the way. After all, insects find cabbage mainly by smell.
Therefore, you can scare away uninvited guests with the help of essential oil. It's very inexpensive. And any sharp smell will suit, be it lavender, fir, mint, rosemary, lemon, orange or cedar.
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So how do you make a miracle?
- Take 0.5 liters of warm water. The tool can be made directly in a liter jar.
- Then on a small grater, sod 20 g of household soap and dissolve it in water.
- Add 20 drops of any essential oil you like to soap water.
- Stir it all together. The miracle cure is ready!
The resulting tool dilute 5 liters of water and spray cabbage with this liquid. Moreover, such processing is better carried out twice a week. Then it will be almost impossible for insects to find their way to your cabbage plantings.
Of course, each summer cottager uses his own methods to protect cabbage. One uses pine needles, the second uses tobacco dust, the third uses ordinary ash. And each of these methods is quite capable of producing results.
How do you protect cabbage from pests? Share your experience in the comments.