For an alternative companion planting approach, strong-smelling herbs such as lavender, sage, and rosemary seem to deter cabbage moths from settling and laying eggs. Try planting them around the edges of your patch to form an odour barrier that doesn’t restrict your own access.
What do you cover cabbage with?
Cover over your plants with a fine mesh netting to deter caterpillars, and string up some old CDs to deter birds. Club root is a fungal disease, affecting the roots of cabbages and other brassicas, including Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, turnip and swede.
How do you protect cabbage?
Use Row Covers
Because so many cabbage pests are larvae of flying insects, one of the best ways to protect your plants from being eaten in the first place is to cover the plants with an insect-proof row cover. This will stop species of cabbage moth and white butterflies from laying eggs on your cabbage.
Do marigolds repel cabbage moths?
MARIGOLDS- Repel Mexican bean beetles, aphids, cabbage moths, potato bugs, squash bugs, nematodes (if dug into soil), and maggots. CHIVES – Repels aphids and Japanese beetles.
What does pouring salt into a cabbage do?
Salt is what is helping preserve your cabbage! It is like what vinegar is to the pickling process. By salting vegetables, it inhibits the ability for harmful bacteria to grow and encourages the good guys – lactobacillus bacteria – to flourish.
What can I put on cabbage for bugs?
Hyssop, peppermint, rosemary, sage, thyme and southernwood all help repel the moths and butterflies that lay the larvae that eat the cabbage. Plant some of these companion plants around and between the cabbage plants to set up a barrier between pests and your cabbage.
Does mint repel cabbage moths?
The scent of mint repels aphids, cabbage moths, and even ants. You can just lay sprigs of mint among the plants you want to protect, so that the mint plant does not spread and take over the garden, but needs to be replaced often.
How do I get rid of cabbage maggots?
How to Get Rid of Cabbage Root Maggots
- If you see flies in the air, scout for eggs in the soil.
- You can try installing ‘cabbage collars’ at the base of the stem.
- Sticky traps in the garden are effective at trapping cabbage flies.
- Check with your nursery about using nematodes as a biological control for root maggots.
Do eggshells deter cabbage moths?
This tip is from Joan in Brisbane and she suggests that if you’re planting a crop of Brassicas that you lay eggshells around them. The white of the eggshells will discourage the cabbage white butterflies. They’ll fly in, think that there’s another butterfly in residence and they’ll move on.
What should not be planted near cabbage?
Cabbage should never be planted near tomatoes, beans, peppers or strawberries. In fact, this holds true for all plants in the brassica family, such as broccoli, kale, and cauliflower.
How do farmers keep butterflies off cabbages?
Netting is the most effective way of keeping the butterflies away from brassica foliage, although small whites seem to be able to do a dam buster act and drop their eggs from a height with some success. Harrods Horticultural sell soft mesh butterfly netting that’s perfect at keeping them away.
Why do you put a dime in cabbage?
The idea was that the cabbage with silver coins cooked in it – and it had to be real silver coins, hence the Mercury dime and pre-1964 silver dollar – would bring the family wealth and prosperity in the New Year.
Why do people put baking soda in cabbage?
Adding baking soda to your boiling cabbage can help reduce the objectionable smell and maintain the green color long after when it typically turns grayish from cooking for too long.
Why do people put vinegar on cabbage?
Always cook red cabbage with a little vinegar as this preserves the beautiful purple colour – without it, the cabbage will turn blue!
What do you spray for cabbage moths?
Dipel Spray
Dipel is toxic to caterpillars, but completely harmless to humans, birds, and beneficial insects such as ladybugs and bees. Simply mix a sachet with water and spray infected plants. Repeat the application over a few days (and after any rain) and be sure to spray the underside of leaves.
How do you protect cabbage from pests?
Cabbage collars.
You can either buy or make these yourself from roofing felt or carpet underlay. The collars are a circle of material covering the soil around the base of the plant which helps prevent the root fly laying its eggs around the stem and stops the maggots burrowing down to the roots.
What’s putting holes in my cabbage?
These small holes are telltale signs of the cabbage worm. Actually, the are several insects that cause this type of damage and are generally referred to as ‘cabbage worms’. This includes the imported cabbage worm, the diamondback caterpillar and cabbage looper.
Do cabbage moths like lavender?
2. Brassicas: Edging cabbage and cauliflower patches with lavender is one way to repel harmful insects like moths, which like to lay their eggs on the underside of the leaves.
Does garlic keep moths away?
Yes, garlic works as a pest repellant, and it’s typically extremely effective. Garlic repels insects in much the same way it repels some people. That is to say, the smell is unpleasant and so insects avoid it.
Will soapy water get rid of cabbage worms?
While we try to avoid chemical pesticides, you can control cabbage worms with a few different organic approved sprays: Neem Oil , bT, and even soapy water. The most important thing when using a spray is to spray the undersides of your leaves where eggs and worms hide.
Will vinegar get rid of cabbage worms?
If you don’t have essential oils, try adding one cup of vinegar instead. Vinegar will not kill cabbage worms but it helps in repelling them. Spray this DIY solution on and around plants.