If you love growing cabbages, but you hate dealing with all the problems that comes with growing cabbages.

Cabages are a brassica and brassica's sure seem like they get smacked up in the face by most of the problems in the garden.

They're susceptible to molds, fungal infections, bacteria, viruses, they are susceptible to tons and tons of pests.

But for now at least, let's talk about some of the diseases that can hit your cabbage plants so you can spot them and then of course treat them before they become a serious problem.

Now we've talked about this first one I'm going to mention before but specifically it was on tomatoes now this is

alternaria leaf spot this one has a brassica target so this is alternaria

brassiciola or a brassae. Now both of these species will cause leaf spots as the name

implies but they can also infect the base of the heads and they're way more likely to cause disease when there's a lot of moisture on the

cabbage and when temperatures are relatively high so above 70 degrees.

So if you're starting your cabbages earlier to try to get them out before the frost comes

and you have a bit of a heat wave, this is one that you need to really look at.

So the symptoms are yellow spots that get larger and then they grow these rings around them kind of like a

target or a bullseye. So if you see that then you know you're dealing with

alternaria leaf spot and if you want to know any specific one if you're not really sure I would Google it and see if you can find a county extension or something like that that can give you the visual identification of common diseases

for these plants. That's really what is going to help train your eye.

Our next one is called bacterial soft rot. Now this can start to decimate a lot of different crops but

cabbages can definitely fall prey to them. Now what you're looking for here

is a storage issue so after you've harvested your cabbage, most of the time that's where this is going to happen.

You're going to start to see water soaked lesions. It's rotting it out, right? And that's how

rot sort of presents itself. These lesions will quickly

enlarge. It will start to look black. The bacteria that soft rot comes from, it

really likes warm and humid conditions.

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