How to treat Chinese cabbage from pests and diseases?

Peking cabbage is an unpretentious plant, but it is often attacked by pests and various diseases, regardless of whether it grows in greenhouse conditions or in the open field. We will describe below how to deal with all this, how to process it and how to protect the plant.

Basically, Chinese cabbage suffers from the following types of diseases.

This disease involves a fungus. Young cabbage is most often affected by it. Even an already harvested crop that is in storage can become infected. It is not difficult to detect this disease. The main symptom of the disease is the appearance of blackness on the foliage. Its appearance indicates that the plant will soon die. The disease can also manifest itself in adult plants. At first, they begin to turn yellow, then black spots form on them, and after the foliage falls off.

The most common cause of the disease is the presence of water on the foliage of the plant, which is under the scorching sun. In addition, the crop can become infected from contact with the remnants of cabbage leaves. The fight against this disease must be started from the moment of sowing. Warm up the seeds in heated water for about half an hour, then dry well.

Another common disease. Both young and adult plants can get sick with it. The main symptom of the disease is gray spots, similar to plaque. Having caught such a disease, the landing will soon die. An ailment can occur due to seeds and weeds.

If signs of illness began to appear on the seedlings, then treatment should be carried out. To do this, you can use products such as wood ash or ground sulfur. It is necessary to spray cabbage with their solutions. It is worth repeating the procedure after 7 days.

This disease is also called wet bacterial rot. Its main symptom is the appearance of spots that resemble wet rot in appearance and have an unpleasant odor. The consequence of such spots will be leaf death, after which the infection switches to the rest of the culture. The result of this is her death.

Seeing the first signs of such a disease, it is necessary to sprinkle the cabbage with Binoram. And just before planting it, it is recommended to water the planting site with the same preparation or to process the root system of the seedlings with Phytoflavin.

Another common disease of Peking cabbage, the consequence of which is darkening and rotting of the stem. Most often, the causes of its occurrence are dampness and too high humidity of the earth.

This disease is not contagious. It occurs due to the fact that the plant lacks calcium. The main symptom of the disease will be a change in color, and then the death of leaves inside the head of cabbage.

This disease is also not contagious. It is not difficult to notice it: dark dots begin to appear on the handle of the leaves. The most common cause of the disease is the high content of nitrogen or phosphorus in the earth.

Chinese cabbage can be attacked by the following types of pests.

This is one of the most common cabbage pests. You can find it on the inside of a cabbage leaf. This insect eats the plant, sucking out its nutrients. After that, the culture begins to grow poorly, and the taste of the cabbage deteriorates.

To prevent these small pests from appearing on your garden, you need to remove all the remnants of last year's harvest and dig up the soil. In addition, insects that feed on aphids can be attracted to save the plant. Among them will be ladybugs and hover flies. Often they live on carrots and dill, and therefore it will be appropriate to plant these plants next to cabbage beds.

This is a gray fly. In general, it does not harm plantings. However, her favorite places for laying eggs are the stems and roots of various cultivated plants, including Chinese cabbage. After hatching, the larvae begin to actively eat the cabbage and its stem, which is fraught with the death of the culture.

This fly differs from the spring fly only in external signs and a period of activity. To save the plant and get rid of the pest, it is necessary to use the same measures as for combating the spring cabbage fly.

These are small midges that are big cabbage lovers, especially when it comes to young plants. They form small holes in the leaves, causing the cabbage to dry out and eventually die. To get rid of this pest, the plant must be sprinkled with tobacco dust or wood ash as soon as possible. You can also use slaked lime, garlic infusion, or chemicals.

This butterfly is also a big lover of cabbage leaves, even at the stage when it is still a caterpillar. Because of it, holes appear on the leaves, as a result of which the growth of cabbage slows down or stops altogether. Pests have a negative effect on cabbage literally immediately, and therefore you need to get rid of them as soon as possible. To do this, you need to stock up on chemical or biological agents that should be watered or sprayed on the plant.

Another dangerous pest that can leave you without a crop. It looks like a butterfly with white wings, on which you can see black specks. Often this parasite is engaged in laying eggs on the bottom of the plant. Caterpillars hatch from them, which actively chew both leaves and heads of cabbage. The result is the death of the plant.

This is a butterfly, which is active at night. She often hibernates in the soil and wakes up only in June. Such a butterfly lays eggs on a plant, after which voracious caterpillars appear. To combat them, dill planting near the cabbage beds is usually used. It is on dill that insects live, which actively destroy the caterpillars of these butterflies.

Slugs and snails are other pests of Chinese cabbage. For a short time interval, they are able to eat most of the culture. They are fought with wood ash, dry mustard, and table salt.

This pest absorbs the nutrients in the cabbage. Because of them, many holes appear on it. This not only spoils the cabbage visually, but also increases the risk of all kinds of infectious diseases. To protect against this pest, make sure that there are no remnants of old cabbage left in the garden before planting new plants. Fertilize the soil with dressings containing potassium, add wood ash there.

To protect cabbage from diseases and pests, it is necessary to take preventive measures:

• after harvesting, dig up the ground, and remove all the remnants of the cabbage;
• regularly inspect cabbage for diseases and pests, and if something happens, immediately eliminate them;
• fertilize the soil, but do not overdo it: a large amount of feeding can only harm the plant;
• periodically spray and process plantings with folk remedies for prophylaxis in order to exclude the possibility of the appearance of parasites.