Turnip Green Insect Control

Homemade pest control for collard greens.

Turnip green insect control.

While several kinds of aphids can plague turnip crops including the turnip aphid lipaphis erysimi the black bean aphid aphis fabae and the green peach aphid myzus persicae the cabbage aphid brevicoryne brassicaea is particularly fierce. They are the stem and leave of the turnip plant. As the name suggests this pest attacks cabbage but it can be found on other greens such as broccoli kale turnip mustard cauliflower and brussels sprout. We provide an overview of the major insect pests of turnips and rutabagas and advice on how to control them.

They suck the sap from the plant. Unlike other cabbage family relatives such as kale collards can handle a bit of heat making them a. Like nearly all annual garden vegetables succulent collards attract insects including destructive pests such as flea beetles aphids and collard loopers. Turnip green are part of the same family of vegetables as kale and broccoli.

Flea beetles can be a major problem. The ingredients to control and even eradicate harmful pests may be found right in your kitchen. Collard greens are a member of the cabbage family. It is tiny and light green with silver markings or ridges and makes a loop when moving because it has only two pairs of legs.

Turnip brassica rapa is an herbaceous annual or biennial plant in the family brassicaceae grown for its edible roots and leaves the plant possesses erect stems and 8 12 leaves forming a crown. Flea beetles are black insects 1 18 inch long which jump quickly and leave. The leaves are light green in color hairy and thin. Cabbage loopers love turnip greens just as you do.

If your collard greens are under insect attack turn to all natural solutions first. The plant produces light yellow flowers which are clustered at the top of a raceme and are often extended above the terminal buds. Hopefully these seed were planted in an area of your garden where greens haven t been produced within the past two years to avoid leftover pest problems that could be lingering in the soil. Turnips and other greens are especially bothered by several insect pests.

That being so it is best to start a new planting of turnip or mustard with new seeds preferably those treated with a fungicide. Turnips greens are rich in nutrients which can improve iron.