Club Root
Protect your broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower plants by preventing club root this spring.
By Lauren Sloane ...
CLUB ROOT - A disease of cabbages and some related vegetables caused by the slime mold fungus.
Club Root (Brassica) - Rotate crops. Concentrate on raising healthy seedlings. No cure.
Cucumber Mosaic Virus - Get rid of aphids which carry the disease. Destroy affected plants. No cure.
Club Root Information
How to identify, prevent and control clob root. This fungus affects the cabbage family,. More
Better Homes and Gardens: Indoor Gardens ...
With cabbages, lift the entire plant to reduce the risk of club root.
With broccoli, harvest when the flower shoots are well formed, but before the small flower buds have opened.
Kale is relatively pest free, but can be susceptible to : black rot and club root as well as aphids, cabbage loopers, cabbageworm, cutworms and flea beetles. The best defense is to provide good growing conditions and keep the plants healthy.
Chinese cabbage is prone to soil diseases such as club root and bacterial soft rot. Protect the crop by applying lime to your soil in the off season, and rotate this vegetable with unrelated crop several times over a few years.
pests such as leaf miners, cabbage butterfly caterpillars, aphids, harlequin bugs, nematodes, and flea beetles with environmentally friendly controls such as Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) and hot pepper wax. Avoid black spot, powdery mildew, club root, ...
 See also: Plant, Soil, Root, Seedling, Drain
  
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