You just go out in the morning, look for the bastids, and pick them off by
hand.

Assume these are the tomato hornworms, they have what looks like a big eye
in front and a fake stinger in the back. Totally harmless to you.

The thing is, you want to get them while they're small, before they've eaten
half a plant and damaged a bunch of tomatoes. They start as tiny green
eggs, little balls about 1/32" in diameter under the leaves. These hatch
into tiny hornworms, 1/16" or smaller. They grow to about four inches, as
you've probably seen.

They do turn into kewl moths, about the size of hummingbirds! But I
wouldn't encourage you to let them, they'll just be back next year to lay a
hundred more eggs on your garden.

There are some insecticides you can try, but in a small garden, just doing
them by hand is probably best.

Tomatoes also attract inchworms and other smaller critters, same deal for
them.

J.



"gardentard" wrote in message
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Howdy,

Im the new guy, I live in a real dry part of the south and I got a
quesiton for y'all about my tomoatos. Ive been growing tomoatos for
about 4 years not but recentl I started to notice these little green
*******s runnin up an down the plant, and they are making it sick.

My buddy says that If I use human **** on the critters they will go
away, is there another alternative, coz I also wana eat the tomoatos.

Thanks for all help.

Andy




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gardentard