ARRRG...cabbage worms

Garden_State on 5/25/2010, 7:09 pm

First year SFGer. Just had my first run in with cabbage worms on my broccolli. Looks like they got one small head completely and put some big holes in the leaves. 6 of 9 damaged. Now that I know what to look for...they are goners

...I hope

chocolatepop on 5/25/2010, 8:46 pm

yeah, they are efficient little fu...buggers are they? They destroyed much of my crop last year also. This year I headed them off and covered my box with tulle.

**Chopper** on 5/25/2010, 10:15 pm

Tulle? You must have the prettiest crop on the block.

nidiyao on 5/26/2010, 6:11 am

I pay my youngest daughter a bounty on every cabbage worm she finds. She has better eyes than I do (ah, youth!) and can see tiny, tiny ones before they can do too much damage. We can really tell when she misses one!

boffer on 5/26/2010, 8:15 am

I like to joke about this, but it's been working for me for five years. I grow sacrificial cabbage. 4-6 plants every year, spread out among my beds. I let the cabbage worms eat my cabbage, and they leave my broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts alone. For me, it's a good trade off.

Dietryin on 5/26/2010, 11:05 am

[quote="nidiyao"]I pay my youngest daughter a bounty on every cabbage worm she finds.

Little Thumb on 5/26/2010, 11:30 am

I am having good luck with diatomaceous earth on my cabbage plants. Give it a try. It won't hurt you or the plants. Natural stuff.

Little Thumb

Dietryin on 5/30/2010, 11:21 am

Little Thumb wrote:I am having good luck with diatomaceous earth on my cabbage plants. Give it a try. It won't hurt you or the plants. Natural stuff.

Little Thumb

Could you please elaborate more on where and how to use diatomaceous.

camprn on 5/30/2010, 12:07 pm

Little Thumb wrote:I am having good luck with diatomaceous earth on my cabbage plants. Give it a try. It won't hurt you or the plants. Natural stuff.

Little Thumb

Suprisingly I could not find it in the orange box store this morning, so it is still hand picking and those little worms squish so easily. Twisted Evil

chocolatepop on 5/30/2010, 12:17 pm

some in for on DE:
http://www.planetnatural.com/site/diatomaceous-earth.html

most big box stores wont carry it, but some smaller stores will, also look at like farming, feed/seed, aco/ace type stores.

Jeff Buffington on 5/30/2010, 6:31 pm

They're after my broccoli as well... Sad

Been using the pick-n-squish method as well as Sevendust to try to control 'em.. but.. with our fickle weather here, it's hit and miss.

boffer on 5/30/2010, 6:45 pm

Jeff's back, everybody!!! smiles

Dietryin on 5/31/2010, 1:47 am

chocolatepop wrote:some in for on DE:
http://www.planetnatural.com/site/diatomaceous-earth.html

most big box stores wont carry it, but some smaller stores will, also look at like farming, feed/seed, aco/ace type stores.

Thanks

chocolatepop on 5/31/2010, 5:55 am

I purchased BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) and sprayed that yesterday. It is a bacteria that basically goes yum yum in the little wormies guts.

johnfromfl on 5/31/2010, 7:12 am

boffer wrote:I like to joke about this, but it's been working for me for five years. I grow sacrificial cabbage. 4-6 plants every year, spread out among my beds. I let the cabbage worms eat my cabbage, and they leave my broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts alone. For me, it's a good trade off.

What is the old saying about farmers??? Plant a row for your self and a row for the wild animals.....The rest goes to market. (or something similar)

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How about paying a kid to look for them every day

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