Cabbage diseases and control. Advice

Practically on each bed you can see tasty cabbage cabbage. But wait for the harvest and collect healthy, large vegetables can only units. Why is that? This is primarily due to the fact that cabbage, like no other plant, is susceptible to various diseases, it is often attacked by pests. Therefore, cabbage diseases and fighting with them for many owners is an extremely burning topic.

One of the most common diseases of cabbage is the so-called white rot. It is typical for vegetables growing on soil of loamy type. Most often, white rot affects the lower leaves of cabbage and the root neck. The tissues defeated by the disease lose their natural color, become watery, and are also covered with a white, cotton-like mycelium. Closer to autumn the mycelium becomes denser and transforms into sclerotia of black color (they can have different shapes). And already during the storage of the crop, another disease may occur - gray rot. The petioles of the lower leaves of cabbage, which is affected by gray rot, are covered with a fluffy gray mold with small dots.

Cabbage diseases and fighting with them often imply the development of a keel. It develops in conditions of excessive humidity. Specific growths can be observed on the roots of the diseased plant, soon it withers and dies. To avoid this disease, before planting seedlings, the soil is treated with a colloidal sulfur suspension (0.4%, 5 grams per square meter). Infected plants should be isolated and burned as soon as possible.

Many problems are caused by diseases such as black leg, mucous bacteriosis, mosaic of cabbage, peronosporosis and rhizoctonia.

A separate topic - pests and diseases of cabbage, which are associated with the activity of insects. This is an ordinary cabbage (white cabbage), and cruciferous fleas, and a bear, and a repellent whitetail, spring and summer cabbage flies, click-beans and wireworms, vegetable, exclamatory, winter and cabbage scoops, naked slugs. For many pests, cabbage is an exquisite treat, so this is another reason why cabbage diseases and fighting with them are such an urgent topic.

There is a certain list of preventive measures to conserve seedlings and obtain a good healthy crop:

• Before sowing the seeds are disinfected: about 15-20 minutes warmed up in hot water (about 50 degrees), for 2-3 minutes lowered into cold water and slightly dried;
• When growing seedlings it is important to ensure that the air temperature does not rise above 18-20 degrees, and the soil was not too wet;
• All sick plants should be isolated and destroyed as soon as possible;
• Maintain neutral soil acidity;
• Observe crop rotation: one and the same place in the soil cabbage can be planted every 5-8 years;
• Studying pests and cabbage diseases with photos, it is important to know how to repel insects: in equal proportions you need to mix tobacco dust and ash and sprinkle this mixture around the soil;
• Before planting in the ground, it is worth dipping the plant roots in a solution of an insecticide (for example, carbofos), mullein and clay;
• The early planting and planting time for cabbage also contribute to the preservation of the crop.

Cabbage diseases and fighting with them cause a lot of problems for the owners. However, adhering to the rules of growing vegetables, you can with great probability avoid them.