Radish diseases and pests

In spring, radishes are the main source of vitamins in our latitudes. Eating this vegetable improves appetite and metabolism, helps the cardiovascular system because it contains potassium. It is also useful for colds, having bactericidal properties. Radishes are an early ripening crop (ripen in 20-40 days, depending on the variety). Some gardeners harvest several crops over the summer, but, unfortunately, sometimes their efforts to grow this wonderful vegetable are negated by radish diseases and pests.

The most common diseases of this crop are mucous bacteriosis, white and gray rot, powdery mildew and downy mildew, common mosaic, blackleg, fusarium, clubroot. Diseases of bacterial origin can be treated by spraying with Bordeaux mixture. In case of clubroot disease, water the soil with lime milk (2 cups of fluff lime are dissolved in 10 liters of water). The only reliable means of combating blackleg is to destroy diseased plants, change the soil, and water the soil with a solution of copper sulfate. To prevent the development of diseases, it is better to disinfect the seeds by holding them in aloe juice, a solution of garlic pulp, or potassium permanganate before sowing.

Radish pests also contribute to the destruction of the crop.As a plant of the cruciferous family, radishes are affected by many pests, including cruciferous flea beetle, cabbage fly larvae, weevils, leaf beetles, cabbage moths, cabbage cutworms, cruciferous bugs, click beetle larvae, secretive beetles, rapeseed sawflies. One of the measures to combat them is to feed plants with liquid manure; many parasites do not like it. Plants can be sprayed with tobacco dust, wood ash, infusion of datura or henbane.