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Billy wrote:

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In article
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Billy wrote:

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Omelet wrote:

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Billy wrote:

This morning while walking in the gardens morning mist (it is
usually fog, but this morning it's steam), I came upon a recovering
cauliflower (pre-FePO4 treatment, gotta do it every 2 weeks) that
has purplish-orange eggs (one group of 3 and another of 7) on the
underside of its' leaves. Doesn't match description of cabbage
worms. Probably innocuous, right? Or is this where I bring out the
Sevin, flame throwers, and a tactical nu-clee-ar device?

Oh hell, just squish them, or remove part of the leaf. ;-)

That was just one plant that is recovering from some heavy grazing.
My cabbage patch has 5 more cauliflowers and a dozen cabbages. I was
hoping to avoid doing daily physicals on the Brassica;o)

I feel your pain... ;-D

I've had similar problems in the past with brocolli and chard. The worms
actually claimed a horseradish. sigh. The worms have to be picked at
dawn when they are out, and they can make seriously short work of the
plants!

BT???

I've not given it an honest try yet for cabbage worms, but I've read and
heard nothing but good about it.

Well, gave the rest of the cauliflowers their physicals, and no sign of
more eggs. The cauliflower with the eggs is a good 50' from the rest of
the brassica, in a six pack, with a couple of recovering green beans, an'
balanced between two tomato arbors 'bout 3' off the ground, where the
dogs and cats would be tempted to nibble them (yesterday I caught Lilly
nibbling on the echinacea). Think I'll hold off on doin' anything that
may be drastic or expensive.

BT is not expensive. :-)
And it's not a poison. It's a bacteria that kills larvae.


I noticed a couple of patches of green where I had grown my dent corn
last year. The Dent has gone feral on me. It no longer respects the
roles of the gardener and the gardened. I thought that was the big thing
about corn, that it needed to be planted. Well, I had just prepared a
new bed for the Dent corn, so I guess I'll just dig them up and
transplant them;-)

Very cool!


The weather gods have been merciful. After a quick run up of the
temperature this morning, a breeze settled in and is keeping us around
99F accuweather.com & 100F weather.com()

So far, it's only hit in the 90's here, but it's early yet...
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Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein