Lettuce and other leafy greens

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Leafy Greens includes Lettuce, Cabbage and Spinach

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) belongs to the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is a hardy annual that is easy to cultivate and most often grown for its leaves. It is, however, often plagued on by a number of insect and mammal pests and fungal and bacterial diseases, and can suffer numerous nutrient deficiencies.

Cabbage or headed cabbage (consisting of various cultivars of Brassica oleracea) is a biennial plant with green, white or purple leaves. This plant is usually grown as an annual vegetable crop for consumption. Cabbage heads come in various sizes and their weight usually varies between 0.5 to 4 kilograms (or 1-9 lbs).

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an edible flowering plant of the Amarantha family that originates in Asia. It is consumed as vegetable and is rich in iron. It is grown as a vegetable worldwide and growths to a height of about 30 cm. It is eaten fresh, steamed or boiled and has a high nutritional value.

 

Lettuce and other leafy greens solutions by Pests:

Aphids

Fungus gnats
(Sciarid flies)

Shore flies

Leaf miners

Spider mite

Impatiens thrips

Western flower
thrips

Onion thrips

Tobacco whitefly

Greenhouse
whitefly


Protocol

Yellow Horiver Cards or yellow Roller Tape will be the most important product you use for this crop. It will capture most flying insects including aphids, thrips, whiteflies, moths, fungus gnats, etc., stopping them from reaching your plants. Not only will these products mass capture, they will also help you monitor your pest pressure, so you known when to apply bio-control.

Aphid Control Preventative Curative Repeat Applications

Chrysopa

40 insects per meter square

Apply weekly or bi-wekly until no aphids are found.

Parasitic Wasp (Aphipar and Ervipar)

1 insect per meter square

4 insects per meter square

 

Note: parasitic wasps will leave behind a mummy casing on the plant leaves.

Apply weekly or bi-weekly.

 

Note: make sure to correctly ID Aphid if using this product curatively.


Thrips Control Preventative Curative Repeat Applications

Thripex Mini Sachets

1 sachet per meter square

Apply monthly or at the beginning of every crop, depending on thrips pressure.

 

Best used in conjunction with yellow Horiver cards and roller tape

Thripex

100 predatory mites per meter square

300 predatory mites per meter square

Apply bi-weekly

Entonem AM

250,000 to 500,000 nematodes per meter square

Apply bi-weekly

Entomite-M

100 predatory mites per meter square

300 predatory mites per meter square

Apply every 6-8 weeks

 

Note: can mix in with coco or peat prior to planting


Fungus Gnat Control Preventative Curative Repeat Applications

Entonem AM

250,000 to 500,000 nematodes per meter square

Apply bi-weekly

Entomite-M

100 predatory mites per meter square

300 predatory mites per meter square

Apply every 6-8 weeks

 

Note: can mix in with coco or peat prior to planting


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