Use of pesticides can do to customize the types of pests or diseases that attack, for example, if you find a pest species of insects, you can use insecticides, if you find the disease on the plants you can use pesticides with fungicides, or when you know that your plants attacked by nematodes , then you can use a nematicide, and still there are some pesticides that you can use customized by type of attack on your plants. View of the materials used you must also know that the pesticides consist of 3 types, including organic pesticides, biological pesticide and chemical pesticides. Pesticides is well adapted to your gardening methods, whether organic gardening or gardening as in general that still use chemical pesticides. For those of you who grow spinach, I suggest you can use organic pesticides and biological pesticides to control pests and diseases in spinach plants that you planted. Before you control pests and plant diseases, the steps you have to do is you have to know the type of pests and diseases in crops spinach, so you can precisely and effectively when control it.
Pest on spinach plants
Mealybug
To know your spinach crop attacked by pests mealybugs or not it is very easy, because these pests are often colonized or assemble in one piece, they are more often seen on the underside of leaves or stems of plants. They have a white body and on the skin have As wax coating, to control the mealybug pest you can use potions I have ever reviewed, for more details you can read how to make organic insecticides for pest mealybugs.
Armyworms and caterpillars
Armyworms and caterpillars also included one of the pests that attack crops spinach, in case of a severe attack then it can cause the leaves on the plant spinach becomes depleted due to be eaten by a colony of the pests armyworm caterpillars. Pest control armyworms can do with insecticides of biological or chemical insecticides.
Mite
This pest attacks spinach plants by sucking the stem or leaves, if you do not immediately controlled it can cause plant leaves turn yellow and then wilt, can even cause death of the plant. Pest control mites you can do by using biological pesticides or chemical pesticides, to the type of biological pesticides that you can use I will review at the end of the discussion.
Leafminer
Impact caused by of pests leafminer are the leaves become perforated, broken, and could menyembabkan leaves wither.
Spinach plant disease
Damping-off disease
The disease is caused by Fusarium oxysporum, Rhizoctonia solani, Pythium spp. Symptoms attacks usually occur when plants are young or seed is still in the growth stage, which is characterized by the presence rotten at the bottom of the stem or roots, or leaves of the young plants turn yellow, wilt, then the plant dies. You can control using biological fungicide and always use are ripe organic fertilizer.
Leaf spot disease
The disease is caused by the fungus Cercospora capsici, you can know the characteristics of plants spinach which was leaf spot disease is with you to see the condition of leaves spinach plants that had patches of brown.
Mosaic virus disease
Disease mosaic virus on tomato plants caused by viruses Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) symptoms caused by this virus you can see the growth of the plant is not the maximum or stunted, the spinach leaves dapple marked on the upper leaf yellowing and parts under still green.
Fusarium wilt
Fusarium wilt disease in spinach caused by Fusarium sp fungus attack, Verticillium sp. and Pellicularia sp, these mushrooms are very fond of soils sour, so you have to pay attention to growing media that you use, do not soil the excess water, if pH of the plant down you can use agricultural lime to neutralize the pH of the soil in the planting medium tomato plants yours.
Control using biological insecticides and fungicides can you as a biological control measures, biological agency that you can use include:
Biological insecticides: Beauveria bassiana, Serratia marcescens and bacillus thuringiensis.
Biological fungicide: trichoderma sp, Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas fluorescens, and much more.
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