Content
- Detect and combat diseases and pests on pumpkin
- These mushrooms want to take the pumpkin in the shortage
- Preempt insatiable nudibranchs
- Tips & Tricks
Detect and combat diseases and pests on pumpkin
A wonderfully alert pumpkin unfortunately provides a considerable attack surface for diseases and pests. This effectively fights off attacks by fungi and ravenous pests.
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The focus is on two mushrooms that are aiming for the pumpkin during the growing season. Both have exactly parallel to the plants high season. We explain how to recognize and combat the symptoms.
The fungus Didymella bryoniae causes the rubber stalk disease, also called stalk fire. In summer temperatures, it falls over the pumpkin and penetrates even the slightest injury to the plant.It forms leaf spots and black necroses. At the same time the stems are softened rubbery.
If a whitish mushroom grass spreads out on the leaves, mildew has struck. Immediately take the initiative and spray the diseased plant repeatedly with the following mixture: 1 heaped spoon of soda (soda), 15 milliliters of vegetable oil and pure curd soap.
Preempt insatiable nudibranchs
They move out at night and make their appetite for pumpkin plants. We are talking about the omnipresent nudibranchs. With a good dose of perseverance, you'll get rid of the plague:
The combination of worm fence and beer trap has proven to be extremely effective. Place a bowl filled with aged beer throughout the season within the fenced area. Snails can not resist this temptation. They fall in and drown.
From a beer trap without worm fence is strongly discouraged at this point. The snails from the entire neighborhood will move in droves.
Tips & Tricks
Threatened by a rainy summer, disproportionately increases the infestation pressure of fungal diseases and moisture-loving pests of all kinds. Protect your magnificent pumpkin in this case with a simple superstructure, as it is known from tomato farming.