Organic Fruits and Vegetables World

infection in cabbage

Means of controlling pests and diseases have turned from chemical to organic. People today have been opting chemical-free measures to eradicate these harmful substances from infesting their crops, as much as they prevent their children from harboring such harmful substances. Likewise, this also promotes the cultivation of purely organic vegetables while also preventing allergies and other unwanted reactions out of synthetic substances. Thus, through an organic system (a  non toxic pest control system), you are sure that you are growing healthy produce.

Five Easy Ways to control pests ORGANICALLY.

1.Get Suitable varieties – Track down VFNT: To be able to prevent plants from acquiring diseases, you also have to select the varieties which are not likely to be infested with such diseases. You are indeed lucky, for throughout these years, a lot of varieties have been developed to become resistant from harboring harmful conditions.

Nevertheless, to determine which among these varieties are what you are looking for, note the labels on the packages – for usually, they include the letters V, F, N, and T to indicate the type of resistance the seeds had been introduced with.

For instance, for those with V and F in their packages, you will be apt to learn that they stand for Verticillium and Fusarium wilts – all related to the fungi that cause tomato to become yellow, to wilt, and then die. Meanwhile, N tells about Nematode resistance. These organisms, nematodes, are small parasitic worms that are forming knots on the stems as well as on the roots of the vegetables. Then, last, T, which stands for Tobacco Mosaic Virus, affects the foliage by causing it to curl and to turn yellow. This also results to severe root damage.

watering early plants

2.Watering Early On: Supposing that you are making use of a sprinkle overhead to irrigate your crops, it is best to do so at the Early Hours of the Day, to make way for drying before nighttime falls. As you see, once the foliage has been wet for long periods of time, you can expect leaf diseases to occur, as well as fungi to inhabit the leaves, flower buds, and tender stems. This also becomes triggered during the night, most especially, as fungi is more likely to spread during the moist and cool hours of the night. Because of this, you will also be observing that the plant becomes weaker, the flowers fall, then the fruit becomes soft and will have spots.

3.Rotate Your Crops: Every year, practice planting your crops in different locations. In this way, you are avoiding microorganisms to thrive on and to infest your produce. Design your plot in such a way that the different plant families shall be given different spots in a matter of a three-year rotation.

5. Use Wondrous Paper Collar: It is by no wonder that at one point, you will just be noticing that your vegetables died when the other day, they were just as healthy as ever. Well, try to think no further, for they may have been attacked by cutworms. These worms usually eat during the night and then hide at day, infesting your crops early on during the season and then cutting your transplants up to the ground level.

Now, to avoid these worms’ destructive measures, you can try to develop a tangible scheme – that to say, entails the use of a paper or a thin collar made of cardboard. In this regard, you are just protecting your cabbages, tomatoes, peppers, and others, as you transplant them into your garden. Just make sure that the collar is at a minimum of one inch below then one inch above the level of the soil. As time passes by, this collar will break off, but by that time, the cutworms’ damages have already passed off.

6.Use Your Magical Beer Can: Various garden plants oftentimes become destructed due to snails and slugs. These creatures, most especially during the rainy season, thrive onto the plants. Thus, if you are growing potatoes or lettuces, you should be careful, for the said insects just love going through these vegetables.

How to note if there are infestations? Just peek and see if there are irregular holes into the leaves. These usually occur during the night, by the way, since they are doing away from the scorching heat of the sun.

To get rid of these pests, one means is by removing their habitat. However, if you are making use of mulch in your garden and if they are given their most sought-after moisture, then they will still live on and destroy your crops. And even if you can find baits in stores to keep them away, you also have another option. Make use of shallow pans of beer and place them in your garden to lure the slugs and snails and at the same time, to drown them.

Insects have Goodness too

LadyBug- A Good Gargen Bug

If you think that all insects are nuisance to your garden, then think again. Most of the insects around you are just plain creatures living in your garden and will do no harm while some even benefit your garden and your crops – preventing pests from infesting your produce. As you see, ladybugs, praying mantises, and lacewing flies themselves eat those insects that destroy your plants. Thus, see to it that they are well-protected when you see them in your garden to be able to harness their capabilities to shield your vegetables. You can then observe them feeding themselves with aphids, caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers, and many others.

Hence, these are just some measures to keep your crops away from destructive insects and other pests. It is up to you as to how you will be able to care for them more efficiently. Try them and see how alternatives work wonders to your garden.

Anand mallik

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