Cabbage biofumigation
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Technique of working chopped cabbage (or another brassica) into the soil two weeks before sowing; the gases released as it decomposes act in the soil, which also receives organic matter.
Application description: Before sowing or transplanting tomato, pepper, aubergine, bean, broad bean, pea or chicory, according to the source.
Dose: 3 kg of cabbage per m².
Before any use, check your country's regulations: in the EU, a homemade preparation presented for plant-protection use is not authorised.
1. Chop the cabbage.
2. Work it into the soil with a disc harrow or hoe, no deeper than 30 cm.
3. Wait about two weeks before sowing or transplanting.
2 weeks before sowing.
Soil with cabbage residues worked in.
IPES, RUAF Foundation and FAO (2010). “Biopreparados para el manejo sostenible de plagas y enfermedades en la agricultura urbana y periurbana”, ¿Cómo hacerlo? series, sheet n.º 23, validated by the Pro Huerta/INTA programme (Cipolletti, Río Negro, Argentina): https://www.fao.org/3/a-as435s.pdf — guide also circulated by Portal Frutícola. Recipe written in our own words.
Recipe written in our own words by biopreparados.es. Copyright and sources
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