Alan Holmes wrote:

I was given a mixture of cabbage type plants, but the damned
caterpillars are decimating the things.

I look at them every day and I've killed dozens but they keep coming.

What the hell can I do about them, or should I just pull them up and
put them on the compost heap?

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I've got two 3m lengths draped over the brassicas; the butterflies
flutter over it constantly, but can't get in. Very satisfying. Some
hatched from eggs laid before I got the stuff over the cabbages, but
*they* can't get out and are easily killed.

regards
sarah


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