How to deal with cabbage caterpillars - an overview of environmentally friendly ways

Hello! For all people holding a garden and growing cabbage, caterpillars are a real problem.

I remember my first experience from meeting these insects. In the evening, it seems, she has already gathered them all, and in the morning again all the cabbages are dotted with pests.

Over time, an effective strategy has developed against them. Now my cabbage is always safe. Want to learn how to deal with cabbage tracks? How to do this without toxic chemicals? Then in the article below read about the most effective methods.

How to deal with cabbage tracks

The queen of the garden has unloaded, has filled herself with juices, it is important in the garden, hiding from the scorching heat of the upper green leaves. Look at such a cabbage is nice. But what is it? The leaves seemed to be beaten with a cough - all in the hole, eaten.

And here the caterpillar culprit sits and brazenly nibbles tender cabbage leaves. It is necessary to drive such “guests” into three necks, until one stump is left from the cabbage.

However, when spraying with these drugs, keep in mind that you can apply them no later than 30 days before harvest.

If you are categorically against the use of "chemistry" on the site, then you can use folk remedies. As soon as you see the first signs of wrecking activity on the cabbage, manually collect the caterpillars and spray the cabbage with a solution of wood ash (2 glasses of ash, 1 tbsp.spoon of soap and grated soap and 10 l of water).

You can try to protect yourself from butterflies and caterpillars in advance by covering the young plantings of cabbage with a fine net through which the pests cannot penetrate the cabbage. Such a grid does not interfere with the penetration of light and moisture. It can be removed for a while only when weeding is required.

And so that pests forgot the way to your cabbage, deceive them with a "scent" by planting dill and carrot along the beds of cabbage. By the way, they also attract predatory insects, which with pleasure will enjoy a caterpillar wandered to cabbage. Everything - the crop is saved!

How to get rid of cabbage caterpillars

Butterflies, and especially their varieties, distinguished by bright colors, look great in the warm summer, in the gentle gentle breezes, under the sultry sun. But there are butterflies that cause irreparable harm to your garden.

Yellow-green, with black spots, they feel good on cabbage, if you do not take action. Gardeners reduce the number of pests, destroying their oviposition, as well as born caterpillars.

White Cabbage Butterfly or Cabbage

The main pest of the garden is the cabbage, which is very attracted to the chemicals exerted by the leaves of plants from the cruciferous family. It includes plants such as white cabbage, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, cauliflower.

Butterflies that sit on plants are not harmful, but those who emerge from eggs are a big problem. These caterpillars with hairline reach a length of 3 or 4 cm.

Caterpillars are larvae that mutate in butterflies. The caterpillar stage is the main stage of feeding and becoming in the life cycle of a butterfly. The caterpillars are very voracious, and a handful of these creatures will be able to swallow 1 or 2 whole heads of cabbage in a day. Infected leaves are toxic to humans and animals, even if the affected plant is washed with water.

Control method

How to deal with caterpillars? There are various organic and chemical methods of dealing with them.

Chemical warfare agents are in any store with goods for the garden, and they go like sprayers, powders and special guns for pollination with chemicals.

To avoid the use of chemicals for home-grown vegetables, you need to deal with this problem with organic methods.

Folk recipes say that the cabbage is stupid, so they can be fooled. For example, hang small objects of light shades near the cabbage (for example, white egg shells), and cabbage whites will find that the cabbage is already taken and will start looking for free cabbage.

Another recipe: make a decoction of milkweed and sprinkle them with cabbage.

To combat the caterpillars, gardeners also spray cabbage with infusions of delphinium (1 kilogram of dried leaves are infused in ten liters of water a day, filtered, add a little soap), infusions of potato tops (0.6 or 0.7 kg of dried tops are chopped, insisted for 2 days in 10 liters of warm water, filter, add 40 g of soap).

An effective remedy against caterpillars is the treatment of cabbage with a solution of 70% vinegar essence (1 tablespoon per bucket of water).

Against caterpillars and other leaf-eating pests of cabbage, onions, cucumbers, a decoction of tomato tops is effective. To do this, 1 kg of green tops (waste from pinching) will pour 3 liters of water, boil for 30 or 40 minutes, cool, strain the broth.

Dilute the product in a bucket of water and sprinkle with it pest affected areas. Tops of tomatoes can be used both fresh and dry, therefore store it for future use.

Then pepper is squeezed out thoroughly, triturated and filtered. To prepare a solution for spraying, 125-150 ml of pepper infusion per 10 liters of water is enough. An additional 40 g of soap was added to this mixture.

With a small number of caterpillars, they can be collected and crushed by hand, until they fill the cabbage and gnaw all the leaves, leaving you only large veins.

Of great benefit in the fight against caterpillars will bring deep plowing of the garden and weed weed. About 70% percent die during these agricultural activities.

Neighboring plants

Plant tomatoes and celery closer to the cabbage - the smell produced by them will kill the smell of cabbage leaves.And if nothing works, send the cats on vacation for the summer, and you will be surprised at the large number of songbirds in the garden, and they love to eat caterpillars.

Black elderberry will serve to remove the cabbage worm, if its fresh leaves are spread on cabbage heads when the cabbage caterpillar attacks the cabbage.

It is good to plant cabbage with celery, which together with wormwood will perfectly protect it from cabbage scoops. Plants with a strong smell - chamomile, dill, garlic, onions, celery, peppermint, rosemary, sage, reduce the interest of insects.

Favorable crops for cabbage are beans, beets, cucumbers, potatoes, lettuce or spinach.

Cabbage is incompatible with garden strawberries, curly legumes, as they negatively affect the growth of heads of cabbage.

A new way to destroy worms

One rural teacher from Marburg County, named Hernel, accidentally discovered the simplest and most convenient way that he got rid of cabbage worms. Having noticed in the anthills and next to them many dried skin of these worms, he decided that the ants eat them.

Soon the ants crawled across all the beds and chased the worms in such a way that they cleared everything in a day; and since there were no worms, the ants themselves disappeared too. Gernel repeated the experiment several times at different times and assures that he always had only the same desired success.

How to deal with caterpillars on cabbage?

Even children know a large white butterfly, a white butterfly, which is more often called a “cabbage”, because it flies during the day, openly. As soon as white butterflies began to flicker over the cabbage bed - be sure: on the lower part of the leaves masonry appeared, of which caterpillars will appear in 8-10 days. You can inspect the leaves and destroy the oviposition.

Cabbage scoop, despite the name, damages many root crops and bulbs. A scoop flies (this is not a butterfly, but a large moth) at night, focusing on the smell of cabbage. The caterpillars of the scoop are first green, and then painted in a greenish-brown color with a herringbone pattern on the back.

If the caterpillars of the whitewash can be seen in the early morning by turning the leaf over and destroyed, then the caterpillars of the scoop are extremely rare, because they feed at night, and in the morning they hide inside at the base of the head. If during the inspection you see perforated leaves, but no caterpillars, then the scoop bothered.

As the leaves of the caterpillar grow, the scoops move from the leaves to the head of cabbage itself, gnaw through the passages in it, pollute it with secretions, and the head of cabbage become unsuitable for storage and use.

Any herbs with a pungent odor are suitable for spraying - tansy, bitter wormwood, hot pepper, decoctions and infusions from tomato tops, do not forget to add soap. You must start the fight against scoop caterpillars as early as possible, until they hit the head - inside the head they can no longer be destroyed by any means.

An absolutely ingenious and simple way invented by practitioners: throw ragged tomato stepsons onto the cabbage from above. After drying, they are replaced with new ones, and even this kindness from the greenhouse is always in abundance. Until the stepsons are dry, they emit a sharp, unpleasant smell for butterflies, and they fly around the garden side.

If this does not help, or you missed the deadlines, you can use, for starters, biological products: bitoxibacillin, lepidocide, they are considered harmless to warm-blooded people. Of the chemicals used Fox - from the whites, Decis, Diazinon, Sumi-alpha, Dimilin and others.

Be sure to look at their waiting times, because early cabbage grows very quickly and may be on your table even before the drug becomes harmless.

Cabbage whitewash, cabbage fly and dark gray scoop - how to fight?

These pests cause enormous damage to crops. But you can do without the use of chemicals, some plants will help in the fight against them.

The scoop is driven away by savory and sage, in addition, I plant marigolds, calendula, nasturtium next to the cabbage bed, which scare away not only the scoop, but also aphids, cabbage flies and moths.

By the way, carrots, parsley, celery, caraway seeds, parsnips attract beneficial insects that eat cabbage pests.

Advice to the gardener: Caterpillars of scoops eat not only cabbage leaves, but also heads of cabbage - they gnaw holes in it, after which they begin to deteriorate. These pests are most active at night, and during the day they hide from light at the base of the leaves. Consider another feature: in the fall, caterpillars of the scoop hide in the soil to survive the cold there.

The cabbage caterpillars cause great harm to the cabbage, which not only eat round-shaped openings in the leaves, but also gradually penetrate the heads of cabbage, make moves up to the stumps, leaving their excrement in them.

To prepare a working solution, half a liter of the composition is diluted in 10 l of water and 40 g of laundry soap are added. The cabbage and the soil around the plants will have to be sprayed with the prepared solution several times, this will save the cabbage not only from the scoop, but also from other pests.

Butterfly scoops can be caught on molasses or bonfires made at night, as they are attracted to light.

They say that the eggshell, hung on sticks among the cabbage beds, scares away the butterflies of the cabbage. You can try hanging jars of yogurt. I still successfully apply a mixture of tobacco dust, lime fluff and crushed ash (1: 1: 1). You can also spray with an aqueous solution of ash and liquid soap: 2 cups of ash 1 tbsp. l liquid soap. Mix the mixture in 10 l of water.

I also want to offer readers a way to fight against cabbage white caterpillars: chop 4 kg of fresh leaves and stalks of milk, and boil it in 5 l of water for 2 hours. Strain, bring the volume to 10 l and add a solution of laundry soap.

To protect cabbage from cabbage flour, the wells are poured with a solution of malathion: 20 g of a 30% emulsion concentrate per 10 l of water. Pour 0.5 L of this solution into each well. Cabbage flies fly out during cherry blossoms and lay eggs near cabbage seedlings on the soil.

Hatching larvae penetrate the stalk and roots of cabbage, as a result of which the plant dies. Onion husk is of great help if you put it on a cabbage bed.

Partially help to avoid the invasion of the fly, early planting of seedlings and high earthing up after the appearance of the fly. The larvae of the fly then suffocate.

It is known that cabbage, which was attacked by scoops or whites, emits volatile substances that attract riders - useful entomophages. These caterpillar enemies live on the odorous plants of the celery family. Therefore, I grow dill, fennel, celery, carrots for seeds between cabbage beds.

And if you sow white bells among cabbage seedlings, then cabbage whites sit on the blossoming white flowers, confusing them with cabbage. Thus, cabbage is not damaged, and pests fly on the color and smell of bell flowers.

Against the larvae of vegetable flies on carrots, onions and cabbage, after sowing seeds or transplanting seedlings, I scatter tobacco dust or ash in rows or around plants. Also, when planting onions and carrots, you need to take into account that onion phytoncides repel pests of carrots and vice versa, therefore it is advisable to plant onions and carrots side by side.

You can, of course, apply chemical methods of pest control, but then the crop will not be environmentally friendly.

How to deal with caterpillars on cabbage - folk remedies

Cruciferous cabbage culture is attractive to many pests. The most dangerous of them are cabbage whitetail (butterfly-cabbage), turnip whitet and cabbage scoop, or rather their larvae - caterpillars that feed on cabbage leaves.

If you do not protect the planting of cabbage from the spread of leaf-eating pests, then you can say goodbye to hopes for a good crop. Experienced gardeners know how to deal with caterpillars on cabbage, and have a lot of biological and folk remedies in their arsenal, which will be discussed in this article.

Morphological features of butterflies-whites and cabbage scoops

The butterfly of the white family has white wings with several black spots. The period of its activity falls on the entire summer season, starting in April and ending with the first decade of October. In the midland, during the warmer months, the cabbage has time to postpone two generations of larvae, and even three in warm regions.

Turnip white (repetitive) is somewhat smaller in size, but this does not become safer for cabbage. Although she lays one egg each (and not hundreds, like a cabbage), their total number for the season is close to five thousand.

The replica begins to produce offspring in May, and in April in warm regions. During the season there is a change of three to five generations of this cabbage pest, each of which leaves offspring of several hundred caterpillars. Gnawing holes in the leaves and head of cabbage, the caterpillars clog it with the waste of their life activity, which causes rotting of the crop.

Cabbage scoop is a plain gray butterfly from the family of scoops, in appearance resembling a night moth. During the season, 2 to 3 generations of the pest appear. Insects feed on all cruciferous crops (cabbage, radish, mustard, alfalfa, turnip), as well as legumes and sugar beets.

Caterpillars of the butterfly Cabbage moth also belong to cabbage pests. The number of generations of cabbage moth depends on the region - the farther south, the more (from 1 to 10 generations).Small caterpillars (about 1 cm) feed on cabbage leaves.

Before each molt, and it happens up to 3-4 per season, the caterpillar weaves itself a “house” of silk thread, attaching it inside the head to the leaves. Thus, young cabbage rosettes are clogged with threads and excrement of caterpillars, with a massive defeat, the crop dies.

All these types of pests are equally dangerous for cabbage and make each other worthy of competition, and vegetable growers bring a lot of trouble.

Folk remedies

Ash-soap infusion. Spraying the plantation with infusion of ash with the addition of soap helps to prevent the appearance of pests, as well as to destroy the caterpillars already present on the beds. In a bucket of water, a half-liter can of vegetable or baking ash is diluted with the addition of grated tar soap (40 g) or tar tar shampoo (40 ml).

Infusion of burdock leaves. Burdock tops contain insecticides that are harmful to caterpillars. To prepare a folk remedy, finely chopped leaves of burdock are tamped in a bucket, filling one third of the volume with green mass, topped up with warm water to the top and insisted in a warm place for 72 hours.

The strained structure spills abundantly under the cabbage bushes and carefully sprayed leaves of seedlings from the spray gun. The multiplicity of treatments is 3-4 times per season, the interval between them is 10-12 days.

Dolphinium infusion / decoction help fight caterpillars on cabbage. For its preparation, the ground part of the plant is taken at the beginning of flowering or the rhizome and shoot in the fall. To obtain an infusion of 10 liters of water will require 1 kg of dry raw materials or 100 g of roots, which must be maintained for 2 days. If the infusion is kept for 10 hours and then let it boil for 1.5 hours, you will get a decoction.

A decoction of leaves and stalks of tomato. In the arsenal of folk remedies for combating cabbage caterpillars, this tool is popular. The green parts of the plant (2 kg) are boiled for half an hour in 5 liters of water. The cooled broth is diluted with water in the ratio: 1 part of the broth to 2-3 parts of water.

As with any herbal decoction or infusion, for better adhesion, laundry soap is added to it before use. In our case, you need 20 g.

Tansy is bright red and cinerariel. These plants are better known by their old names - feverfew or Dalmatian chamomile and Caucasian chamomile. In industry, they are natural raw materials for the production of pyrethrin insecticide, and in the garden they are grown as ornamental crops.

At home, from the dry flowers of tansy (pyrethrum) of these species, you can prepare a powder or solution to control pests of cabbage. It will take half-blossomed inflorescences or more tubular yellow flowers. They are dried, ground and mixed in half with road dust. The resulting mixture was dusted with cabbage.

Infusion and decoction of tobacco dust. To fight caterpillars on cabbage tobacco or shaggy dust will help. She needs to take 40 g and pour a liter of water, insist 48 hours. Strain, add two volumes of water.

Before spraying in a liter of infusion, 4 g of laundry soap is dissolved. To prepare the broth, the same proportions are used, but only bitches insist. Then boil for 2 hours, cool and dilute with water and soap.

Baking sodaBut it is a simple and harmless folk way to deal with cabbage caterpillars. Pollinate cabbage leaves with soda over dew or after rain. This taste does not like leaf-eating pests of cabbage.

Biological methods and means

Attraction of wasps. If wasps live on your plot, then you can get rid of the caterpillars with their help. It turns out that adult wasps feed their offspring with larvae of parasitic pests, cleaning the plantation in a natural way.

Biological preparations. They resort to them when neither manual collection, nor repeated spraying with decoctions and infusions or dusting with folk remedies do not help, but still do not want to use chemistry.

Biological preparations “Bitoxibacillin”, “Lepidocide” are not toxic to humans, animals, bees in recommended doses. They do not penetrate into the tissues of plants and do not accumulate in them. After eating the foliage of cabbage processed by them, the caterpillars lose their appetite and soon die.

During the season spend 1-3 treatment of cabbage at intervals of 7 days. The drug acts only in the initial stage of the appearance of caterpillars and does not help with persistent damage by a pest. The biological preparation Fitoverm is used up to two times with an interval of 20 days.

Preventive measures

In order not to once again ask the question “How to deal with caterpillars on cabbage?” And not spend time and effort fighting them, it is better to prevent the appearance of the cabbage enemy:

Unlike toxic insecticides, abundantly sold on the modern market, folk and biological means of controlling caterpillars on cabbage beds are absolutely safe for humans, plants and domestic animals. Remember that the use of chemical pesticides to kill pests leads to the accumulation of harmful carcinogens in fruits.

Pests on white cabbage

White cabbage is a vitamin and low-calorie crop; it is a welcome vegetable of every table.

The succulent, fleshy leaves of white cabbage are a wonderful and plentiful food for them.

Cabbage scoop - a butterfly of brownish-gray color, with a wingspan of about 50 mm. On the upper wings she has two kidney-shaped spots with white dots. The caterpillars of the cabbage scoop are first green, then brown or black. The length of an adult caterpillar is about 50 mm.

Pupa reddish-brown in color, 20–24 mm long. A pupa hibernates in soil at a depth of 10 cm; in spring, a butterfly flies out of the pupa, which lays eggs on the lower part of the plant leaf. After about a week, caterpillars emerge from the laid eggs. In total, during the summer period, the cabbage scoop gives up to three generations of caterpillars.

Pupa of cabbage and turnip whites winter on tree trunks and weeds. Butterflies from pupae appear in spring; they have white wings with black spots.Butterfly cabbage is much larger than turnip. On the underside of the leaves of cabbage, it lays eggs (up to 250 pcs.), From which a whole colony of small caterpillars will soon emerge, which grow very quickly.

Caterpillars of cabbage white are about 40 mm long, yellow-green in color with brown spots. In turnip whites, caterpillars are velvety green, covered with hairs and have a length of up to 25 mm. During the summer season, the butterflies of the whites give two generations of caterpillars.

Cabbage moth is a small grayish-brown moth, its length is about 9 mm. She also lays her eggs on the underside of cabbage leaves. The caterpillars of the moth are light green; they damage only the underside of the cabbage leaves, forming rounded “windows”. Two or three generations of caterpillars develop during the season.

The most effective and efficient way to control caterpillars can only be considered a systematic manual collection of these pests. Clutches of butterfly eggs are clearly visible on the leaves of cabbage, and they are easy to destroy.

Caterpillars of cabbage whites, while they are young and have not lowered to the base of the leaves inside the head, it is easy to collect from the upper side of the leaves. Cabbage scoop can be destroyed by spraying ash broth (two glasses of ash in 10 liters of water).

For this, a third of the bucket is filled with chopped burdock leaves and filled with water. After three days, the infusion, pre-filtered, can be used. Multiplicity of processing - in a week, three to four times.

How to deal with cabbage pests

Planting seedlings of cabbage in open ground was successful, now the main task of vegetable growers is to protect the crop from pests, which the queen of vegetable beds have a lot of. These are cabbage aphids, cruciferous fleas, cabbage weevil, cabbage fly, scoop, turnip and cabbage whites, rapeseed sawfly. You can protect the plant by choosing its neighbors correctly.

In addition, it is recommended to plant marigolds, calendula or nasturtium next to its beds, which repel aphids, cabbage flies, moths and scoops from plants. In this case, carrots, parsley, parsnips, caraway seeds, celery will also help, attracting useful insects that eat cabbage pests.

Cabbage scoop, or rather its caterpillars, which not only eats round-shaped through holes in the leaves, but also gradually penetrate the heads of cabbage, does a lot of harm to cabbage, makes moves to the cobs, leaving their excrement in them.

Infusions and decoctions of celandine, rhizomes or leaves of dandelion, leaves of burdock, grass of bitter wormwood will help scare away the cabbage scoop from tidbits and even destroy the pest.

To prepare a working solution, 0.5 l of the composition is diluted in 10 l of water and 40 g of laundry soap is added. Cabbage and the soil around the plants will have to be sprayed with the prepared preparation several times. This will save cabbage not only from cabbage scoops, but also from other pests.

Butterflies scoops can be caught on molasses or bonfires made at night (they are attracted to light).

In June, cabbage white caterpillars may appear on cabbage leaves, which eat up the entire flesh of the leaf, leaving only veins.

The appearance of butterflies in the garden is a signal to the beginning of the fight against the pest.Every week, you need to inspect the leaves from the underside and destroy the eggs laid by the butterfly, and later the young caterpillars. Of course, it will not be possible to collect everything, but the mass spread of the pest will not happen and it will be possible to do without the use of drugs.

If such control measures were unsuccessful then it is better to resort to processing plants. From cabbage whitening, spraying with a solution of wood ash helps (for 10 liters of water, two glasses of ash and a tablespoon of liquid soap).

Watering the plants with a composition prepared from 10 liters of water of two tablespoons of mustard, the same amount of salt and a teaspoon of ground black or red pepper gives a good effect.

They say that a shell of eggs, hung on sticks among cabbage beds, will scare away butterflies of the cabbage. Perhaps this sounds somewhat unconvincing, but we think you can try.

According to some vegetable growers, the aphid is the most unpleasant pest of cabbage. The leaves of plants affected by the pest begin to curl, covered with light yellow spots, on which you can see greenish aphid colonies.

You can fight aphids with a decoction of onion husks and infusion of tomato tops, as well as a traditional ash and soap solution.

An effective two-three-hour infusion prepared from 1.2 kg of green mass of potatoes and 10 l of water, which is recommended to treat the affected plants (in the evening).

With a massive invasion of a cruciferous flea that occurs in hot and dry weather, dusting (after watering) of wet plants with ash will help. The effect will be greater if you mix it with tobacco dust (1: 2).

Spraying cabbage also helps with the infusion of celandine (3-4 kg of grass per bucket of water, insist a day), chamomile (1 kg of dried leaves and flowers per bucket of water, insist 12 hours), tobacco (400 g per bucket of water, insist for two days) or garlic (50 g of chopped cloves in a bucket of water, insist day).

To protect the crop from pests during planting, it is recommended to compact the soil around the stem. In addition, it is necessary to try to plant seedlings in the early stages, so that by the time the fly flies out, the stem has become coarser and inaccessible to the larvae.

The easiest way to deal with this pest is to destroy the eggs of the fly. To do this, from the root neck of the plant, they rake the earth 15 cm away and add fresh, taken from the aisle, in return. This procedure is repeated several times during the period when the flies lay their eggs.

When a fly appears, a cabbage bed is sprayed with infusion of burdock. To do this, chop the leaves, fill them with a bucket for a third of the volume, fill with water and insist for three days. The prepared composition is sprayed with plants three to four times with a weekly interval.

You can get rid of snails and slugs that damage not only the aboveground, but also the underground part of plants with the help of such a composition. A 0.5 liter jar of wood ash is thoroughly mixed with two tablespoons of table salt, dry mustard and ground pepper.

On a hot sunny day, this mixture pollinates the soil between rows of plants, consuming one or two teaspoons per meter, and then loosens it to a depth of 3-5 cm. On the same day in the evening, a second treatment of plants is done. To do this, a jar of wood ash (0.5 l) is mixed with a tablespoon of ground pepper or dry mustard, poured into a gauze bag and pollinated by plants.

These procedures are recommended to be carried out twice with an interval of five to six days. Some experienced vegetable growers claim that nettles, which are dug near plants and in the corners of the beds, help protect cabbage from slugs.

So that the cabbage does not hurt and is not damaged by harmful insects, it must be looked after: observe crop rotation, fight weeds, liming the soil, fertilize with recommended fertilizers, plant seedlings on time.

Do not forget also that white cabbage is very sensitive to fertility, soil moisture. It is believed that for the formation of a head weighing 2 kg, the plant needs about 200 liters of water. True, culture does not tolerate waterlogged lands, and with excessive moisture, plants suffer from a lack of air in the soil, grow poorly and develop.

Caterpillars on the cabbage, how to fight

Folk remedies. If you have a hornet's nest on the site, then you are lucky and you can turn this fact in your favor. Dissolve any old jam, fruit compote or just sugar water and sprinkle the planting of cabbage. This will attract the attention of wasps to cabbage beds - they will fly by the smell. Wasps feed their offspring with caterpillars and with great pleasure will clear cabbage leaves from pests.

It helps to scare away a butterfly with a decoction of onion peel or tops of tomatoes. To prepare the broth, take a liter jar of onion husks, pour boiling water (2 l) and infuse for two days, then bring the infusion to four liters, pour a tablespoon of liquid soap, then spray.

To prepare a decoction of tomato tops, take it 1.5-2.5 kg pour hot water (5 l) and after 3-4 hours put on low heat for 2-2.5 hours. Filter and dilute with water in a ratio of 1: 2. Before processing, 25-35 g of tar or laundry soap is added to the solution.

In 10 l of water add a tablespoon of tar shampoo or liquid soap, leave for a day, then process the cabbage.

Prepare the mixture in equal proportions of flour and baking soda and add a little pollen to any cruciferous plants. Caterpillars die from such food, and this does no harm to plants.

A popular and very effective way to control caterpillars with vinegar. A glass of table vinegar (9% solution) is dissolved in 10 liters of water and the cabbage is processed in calm calm weather. You can use the essence of two tablespoons per 10 liters of water, spilling plants and soil from a watering can. It is enough to carry out such processing once.

Chemical methods

Now on the market you can buy modern drugs that can quickly destroy pests that are harmless to plants and humans. They are released in the form of powder, tablets, ampoules, which are most often dissolved in 10 liters of water and allow you to treat an area of ​​45-50 square meters.

You can also, by feeding cabbage plantings, add substances that repel caterpillars and prevent their reproduction. Such substances are superphosphate (100 g per 10 l) or potassium chlorine (50 g / 10 l of water). Feeding can be done 3 times per season.

Effective treatment of plants with the biological preparation "Entobacterin". 20 g of the substance are diluted in a small amount of water to 15 degrees, stirred and added with warm water up to 10 l and immediately process the cabbage, each leaf, without skipping.

In addition to "Entobacterin", the following preparations can be used from caterpillars: butisan, triflurex, FAS, splender, decis. Remember, when using chemicals, strictly adhere to the attached instructions.