Garden Pests: 8 Ways to Protect Your Cabbages
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Home-grown cabbages have a range of flavours that you just can't match from store-bought versions. However cabbages and other brassicas are quite vulnerable to pests and diseases.
In this short video we show how you can protect your cabbages from the most common threats in your vegetable garden.
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I appreciated the fact that this was short, quick, and to the point information. Thank you for providing this content.
thank you for making this short, i have hopes for next year
Thank you! I am missing such fast and clear videos on youtube, which respect the time of the one watching.
Awesome I like quick ones saves me forwarding and missing bits 👌🏻
Plants that attract or provide habitat for wasps are the best way to keep cabbage worms away. The yellow-jackets eat most of the cabbage worms on all of my grandmother's brassicas.
Yes! I watched a yellow jacket eat a worm once. It was incredible!
Absolutely! I've historically had terrible problems with cabbage worms, such that I gave up trying to grow broccoli. This year, planted cabbage & broccoli and was just prepared to do battle. One day I look up under my roof and there is a hornet nest... kept seeing them patrolling my plants every day. They didn't bother me, I left the nest there and they are keeping my plants safe. Once in a while I'd find a little damage and go looking to pick them off but find nothing, hornets got to them first.
Thank you. This was very helpful! I’m finding your videos super informative. I really appreciate the effort and care you put into educating us. Many many many thanks!
You are very welcome - thanks so much for watching.
Have you ever tried putting something just over the head of cabbage to prevent bugs eating it? This is my first year growing cabbage and the bugs love it!
The best way to avoid bugs on cabbage is netting or mesh. More in this video: th-cam.com/video/-NYVacngcXw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yhVj4M-6XSaxX3TV
too quick for me too, I had to use the pause button the read the notes, very good info
Thanks for the feedback - we'll bear this in mind for future videos like this.
Carnt beat a quicky
So much for dill protecting cabbage plants. I have dill planted next to my cabbage plants, I woke up this morning to discover one cabbage plant completely eaten by some insect.
Sorry to hear that. The dill won't protect against all bugs. Perhaps they were attacked by slugs?
Well I have dill, thyme, and a small amount of mint already in my garden. I planted my cabbage in tubs and sat them at the edge of my garden and just this morning woke up to small holes in them.
That's annoying Kayla. If in doubt, insect mesh or row covers/fleece is always worth deploying on cabbages.
When you make your own pesticide for cabbages, do you have to re-apply after each rain? winter time, I add a teaspoon of vegetable oil to my mixture for it to stick to the leaves and not run off.
Yes, if there is lots of rain I imagine you'd need to reapply more frequently.
I'm going to be a cabbage January king 3! Hopefully 👍
Great variety!
@@GrowVeg my birthday is January 3rd! 👍
This is handy for Nikos Cabbages
These tips are just fantastic who new!!! But it's going to fast to read slow down a wee bit plz
Thanks for the suggestion. I think our more recent videos are better-paced. :-)
Great tips! :)
Is cabbage, frost hardy? I'm gonna try to protect them and try to get some kind of harvest, but I don't wanna bother them if it's about to die a month from frost
Yes, cabbages are cold-hardy so would be fine in frosts.
What other is good for current aphid infestation? This are the critters flying everywhere when I just touch my cabbage or broccoli etc, correct??
Often these tiny winged insects die off with the first frost, or even the first colder nights. You could look at our guides to cabbage pests for more ideas for controlling aphids etc. though: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/plant-problems/cabbage-pests-identification/
@@GrowVeg thanks. First frost is still a month and a half away and lately later so I’m sure the damage would be considerable. I’m all about not using anything but after enough years of dealing with pests I’m beginning to consider it
I agree... Way too fast. No time to look, read, & absorb.
I am having issues with birds getting my Strawberries and some of my Romaine lettuce, what can I do that won't hurt the birds and won't cost too much?
You could use string to tie old CDs onto canes stuck in the ground around your plants. The reflected light is meant to scare them off. To be honest though, the only real way to be sure is to throw a net or row cover/horticultural fleece over vulnerable plants so they can't get at them. But maybe try the CDs first to see if they work as they're very easy to set up - and free if you've got some old music you're looking to get rid of!
I'm having a big problem with my cabbage. rat and mice eating them. Any suggestion? I try hot pepper habanero spray. Covering them with bucket they go underneath. I tried almost everything. It's very frustrating
I have never experienced this problem. Short of growing them inside a greenhouse or polythene tunnel that is properly secured from rats and mice, I'm not sure how you would stop them from getting eaten. Are you sure it is mice and rats eating them? Pigeons are the usual culprits, especially in autumn and winter, in which case you can put netting up around plants to stop them. Properly secured at regular intervals around the edges, perhaps by burying the sides with soil, this could also help to stop rats and mice too.
@@GrowVeg thanks for your answer. I just found out who is the culprits. It was mice. I caught 4 in one night. With a regular trap. Since Dan's no problem. But I still keep traps around in case. I did try netting it didn't work, they went through making a hole. Thanks again
Half off them don’t work- Thyme is one it’s rubbish Best thing is just cover them up - fine netting 😅
…or you could manually pick the caterpillars off and throw them into the garden pond for the fishes to eat (win,win)
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I could see chickens going nuts for them too.
Very true - I could see them snapping them up!
This is a possibility however... You would have to hover over your plants many times during the day. Caterpillars have a veracious appetite and can destroy a plant in no time at all.
@@GrowVeg Keep in mind that chickens will damage and eat cabbage plants
You stay away from my cabbage!
Please slow down the video, it’s way too fast to keep up with but has good content. I needed to backup about 7 or 8 times.
Not being negative, just wanting to help.
Thanks Frank - that feedback is honestly appreciated and will be taken on board.
Plants that attract hoverflies will keep the aphid populations minimal
niko belic : stay away from my cabbage
Could not read it, far too fast
Thanks for the feedback. We'll bear that in mind for future videos like this.
Too fast to can intake
Thanks for the feedback.
Way to fast