Pests and diseases of eggplant

In order to get a high yield of aubergines on your own plot, you should not be late with sowing seeds for seedlings, and you need to do this until the middle of February. With a later planting, your plants will bloom only at the end of summer, because the eggplant is characterized by a long growing season (more than 100 days).

Presowing protection of eggplant seeds from diseases

Before sowing the seeds, they must be kept in a strong solution of potassium permanganate for thirty minutes. Then rinse well under running cold water and moisten with nutrient solution. To make it, you need to dissolve a teaspoon of ashes in a liter of water. If there is no ash at hand, then it can be replaced with a liquid sodium humate or nitrophosphate.

In the received warm (+28 degrees) solution, the seeds are lowered in gauze pouches for a day. Thanks to this processing eggplants grow faster, and the first crop you will take off much earlier.

After that, the seeds must be removed from the solution, lightly moistened with water, put on a plate and left in a warm place for 2 days. During this time the seeds will come through. Now they can be sown in sowing boxes, and in 5 days you will see the first shoots.

Common diseases of eggplant seedlings

In order to prevent the inevitable death of a plant, one must understand the causes of the disease of the eggplant well and know its external distinctive features.

One of the most common diseases affecting plants is the "black leg". The cause of it is the fungus, which causes darkening and wilting of the root neck. Unless urgent measures are taken, this disease will cover the whole plant, and it will fade. In places with high humidity, the disease spreads literally in a matter of hours.

Unfortunately, it is already impossible to cure the plant, but the disease with a "black leg" is quite possible to prevent.

Prevention of eggplant disease

Affected plant must be urgently removed together with a small clod of earth, and the remaining soil in this place is disinfected with a small amount of bleach. Seedlings should be systematically thinned out.

But the most serious are bacterial diseases of eggplants, they include "black bacterial spotting". It affects the entire plant.

In the beginning, there are single black spots that have a yellow border on the sides. These spots begin to increase until the whole plant is covered by them. If this happens, then the eggplant fruits can not be eaten. In order to prevent the emergence of this formidable eggplant disease, it is necessary to spray the plants with a special bacterial "Zaslon" - in a dosage of 3 caps per 1 liter of water.

In addition to the above diseases, there are other, no less dangerous, and they must always be remembered. These include - gray rot, verticillosis and fomospsis.

Eggplant pests

Probably the most dangerous and voracious pest is the Colorado beetle. For a beetle, there is nothing more delicious than a young plant of aubergine, and he loves them more than potatoes.

The second most popular is the spider mite. He can suck all the juices out of the plant, unless, of course, take emergency measures. The first wave of pest attack is replaced by the second wave, when a couple of weeks later a new generation of pests is born.

Do not mind eating aubergines and aphids. Like a mite, it sucks the juices out of the plant. To prevent its appearance, it is necessary to spray plants with such preparations as "Carbophos" and "Aktara" during the flowering period. These chemicals are universal and thanks to them all pests of eggplants are destroyed.

In order to destroy naked slugs, it is necessary to keep eggplant planting clean, from time to time squabbing the aisles with freshly lime and, of course, constantly loosen the soil.