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, "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote: "OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message I'd like to try it with cabbage worms...... Om were you thinking of the cabbage grubs that are laid by the white cabbage butterflies? If you were then this does work. Make up some fake cabbage butterflies (I use the white opaque plastic form old milk cartons) and mark then so that they have the black markings of real cabbage butterflies with a felt tip pen and then put them on bamboo stakes and put them around your cabbages. The cabbage butterfly is territorial and will go elsewhere if it thinks that that cabbage is already taken by another cabbage butterfly. That sounds interesting... I've never seen the actual butterflies. These are the little *******s that killed my horseradish and did a number on my chard and brocolli: http://tinypic.com/2zjgpaa.jpg The largest was maybe 1" long at most. I killed dozens of them but I had to get them at dawn and dusk. They were so destructive so fast! I lost the horseradish but managed to save the other stuff. I just killed everything by hand. The chickens I had at the time feasted happily. G -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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snail repellent
"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote: Om were you thinking of the cabbage grubs that are laid by the white cabbage butterflies? If you were then this does work. (snip) That sounds interesting... I've never seen the actual butterflies. These are the little *******s that killed my horseradish and did a number on my chard and brocolli: http://tinypic.com/2zjgpaa.jpg Pretty sure that is them but it's been a year or more since I've seen any. Last year I tried the opaque plastic fake butterfly trick and didn't ahve any probs with my broccoli. |
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snail repellent
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, "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote: "OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message "Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote: Om were you thinking of the cabbage grubs that are laid by the white cabbage butterflies? If you were then this does work. (snip) That sounds interesting... I've never seen the actual butterflies. These are the little *******s that killed my horseradish and did a number on my chard and brocolli: http://tinypic.com/2zjgpaa.jpg Pretty sure that is them but it's been a year or more since I've seen any. Last year I tried the opaque plastic fake butterfly trick and didn't ahve any probs with my broccoli. Hm. I'll have to try that this fall...... Thanks! -- Peace! Om "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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