Every year, truck farmers are forced to face such an affliction, like slugs on cabbage, it is difficult to fight with. First, the pest attacks strawberry berries, then its appetite extends to tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and cucumbers. Cutting the harvest, slugs are selected and to cabbage, gnawing the flesh of its leaves, making holes in the core. What is the protection of cabbage from slugs and how to protect it and save it so as not to lose the crop?
Preventive measures
As you know, fighting slugs on cabbage is the result of lack of prevention. In order not to spend time in the season for spraying, manual collection of pests, it is necessary to create unfavorable conditions for them. To repel, so to speak, the appetite. In nature slugs are a treat for some animals. If it's practically impossible to have a hedgehog on the site, then by building shelters from branches and leaves, you will create an excellent shelter for toads. These amphibians will not leave slugs a chance to survive.
Do not you want neighbors on this site to live with you? Then take away from your site standing water. Gastropods like a moist environment and dense thickets, so they will have nothing to do without standing waters and on a thinned out site. This applies to dense grass, where pests are hiding from the harmful sun rays for them. Remove the weeds and mow the grasses on the roadside in a timely manner. They love slugs and piles of garbage, and a variety of planks. Removing the trash from the site, you will deprive the gastropods of shelter.
Crushed egg shells, coarse-grained sand, nutshells, shell fragments - this is an insurmountable obstacle for slugs, as the rough surface does not lend itself to a smooth and slimy calf. Surround these loose substances with beds with cabbage, and pests can only look at it. As an unpleasant surprise for slugs, you can use spruce needles, promulchivav them soil on cabbage beds. They are afraid of dried nettles, spread out under the plants.
Methods of struggle
If preventive maintenance did not give the expected results, then complex processing of cabbage would be required. From slugs can be got rid of by exhausted beer. By the way, the taste of pests is not bad - they can not resist the dark German beer. Enough to dig into the plastic bottles filled with a foamy drink half, and in the morning around them you will see the slugs slain with beer. Having treated them two or three times, you will get rid of pests until the end of the season. If the beer is in excess, fill it with several cans - the result will not be expected.
What else can you process cabbage from slugs? Suitable lime or ash . After watering or raining, pollinate cabbage rows. Lime, falling on the pest of a pest, causes a burn, from which it dies. Several pollination - and slugs will disappear. Remember that it is better to spend the procedure in the evening, when the gastropods are especially active.
The American truck farmers respect grapefruit. After eating the pulp, place the halves of the peel with a small hole-inlet throughout the site. The smell lures slugs, and they can not get out. In the morning, they will collect pests and destroy them.
As bait-traps are used and pieces of roofing material, and cutting boards, and even burlap. For a day set the traps on the beds, and in the morning you will only have to collect them together with sleepy slugs.
Concerning chemical preparations, methaldehyde demonstrates high efficiency in fighting slugs. Of course, the tool is expensive, but the efficiency is beyond praise. Having saturated with such food, scattered around the site, the pests will perish.