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Old 18-07-2006, 03:35 AM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Tomatoes aren't ripening


"Myrl Jeffcoat" wrote in message
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I have a question about growing tomatoes. . .What do you guys use as
your favorite method for twarting tomato worms?

It seems every year, I wait and wait for those first tomatoes to ripen,
and voila about the same time they do, here comes those pesky tomato
worms..


Favorite method: vigilance and BT

Watch for the Sphinx moth and/or Five-spotted Hawk Moth. These mo'fos lay
the eggs for green horn 'filled with disgusting slime' worms. See the
moths, spray the BT once a week.

http://images.google.com/images?q=Sphinx+moth+&hl=en
http://images.google.com/images?svnu...tted+Hawk+Moth