Did you know that overwintered cabbage and other brassicas like broccoli and kale can act as a trap crop and a nursery for beneficial insects? Brassicas will attract pests, especially aphids when they go into flowering mode at the end of the season, and when left in the garden to overwinter. Cabbage aphids survive winter's freezing temperatures and resume feeding in early spring, providing a reliable, early food source for beneficial predators like ladybugs, hoverflies, and lacewings that...