Pasta save the cabbage pests. Cheap means with sweeping effect

Vegetables, which they were unpretentious, need proper care. Cabbage is no exception. Many gardeners to grow a good crop of vegetables, use expensive chemicals, fertilizers.

But not everyone remembers about the toothpaste, which until recently was almost the first means of salvation from the cabbage pests.

What are the properties of toothpaste do not like pests

We use toothpaste, which freshens breath, improves the quality of dental enamel, strengthens gums. Of course, the paste is a chemical product. It is composed of:

· A fluorine compound;

· Extracts of chamomile, myty, sage, thyme;

· sodium sulfate.

But all of these elements to clean the teeth and healthier, not to taste cabbage pests. Moreover, any paste has antibacterial quality, so its use is overdue in lesions vegetable Phytophthora.

It should be noted truckers: No need to buy too expensive pasta. The desired effect occurs regardless of the price, so do not spend the extra money.

From any pests toothpaste is most effective

Of greatest interest to the cabbage caterpillars exhibit and cabbage flea beetles, but they more than other insects intolerant of toothpaste. The most dangerous for the cabbage caterpillars are not all, but only some of them: the diamondback moth caterpillars, cutworms and white butterfly.

They are all incredibly fertile. Lay a great number of eggs on the underside of the cabbage leaf. Hatched caterpillars eat cabbage without interruption, until the veins and stems.

Cabbage flea beetles come out of hibernation just at a time when planted cabbage seedlings. They devour not only its upper part, but also can damage the root, because they live in the land.

Methods of preparation of the solution

To a mixture of 75 grams of dilute pastes, better content peppermint extract in 10 liters of water. The solution should turn cloudy. If there is no such effect, then add a few grams. Instead of toothpaste you can use peppermint tooth powder.

Some gardeners, for greater effect, the prepared mixture was added red pepper or dry tobacco.

Toothpaste with whitening property used for phytophthora.

The treatment of cabbage should be in a quiet calm weather, after watering. spraying frequency depends on the number of pests, but on average, the mixture based toothpaste must be used every four days.