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I spray my collards with liquid Sevin whenever cabbage worms appear.
I am apprehensive about eating the leaves and I wish to know if after careful washing the collard leaves, are they safe to consume? Thanks, Johnny |
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phorbin wrote: In article afa6ef23-0008-4129-88f9-69af9f6b1e20 @m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com, says... I spray my collards with liquid Sevin whenever cabbage worms appear. I am apprehensive about eating the leaves and I wish to know if after careful washing the collard leaves, are they safe to consume? Thanks, Johnny I wouldn't. (Other people's mileage may vary.) And Sevin is particularly hard on bees. If you feel apprehensive about eating residual cholinesterase inhibitor, try a BT spray. Read: chemical warfare/nerve gas MSDS: http://www.reefball.com/reefballcoal...or%20Sevin.pdf Alternately, try "the examine the leaves, squish the worms and knock the eggs off the leaves technique" once a day. Which has served us very well. Then again, you may do as we do and cultivate wasps, which, once they get going in a season, make off with most of our cabbage worms. I just love the little attack critters which, along with our resident dragonflies and the birds make a wonderful air force. -- Billy Bush and Pelosi Behind Bars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTf...ef=patrick.net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo...eature=related |
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Johnny wrote:
I spray my collards with liquid Sevin whenever cabbage worms appear. I am apprehensive about eating the leaves and I wish to know if after careful washing the collard leaves, are they safe to consume? Thanks, Johnny Read the label: http://www.cdms.net/LDat/ld5ER002.pdf Do not use within 14 days on Chinese cabbage, collards, kale, or mustard greens. "BT" might be a better choice, and is nontoxic. Bob |
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Johnny wrote: I spray my collards with liquid Sevin whenever cabbage worms appear. I am apprehensive about eating the leaves and I wish to know if after careful washing the collard leaves, are they safe to consume? Thanks, Johnny Read the label: http://www.cdms.net/LDat/ld5ER002.pdf Do not use within 14 days on Chinese cabbage, collards, kale, or mustard greens. "BT" might be a better choice, and is nontoxic. Bob I haven't used anything on my herb garden, but something is chowing on my sage plant now. Would BT be a good choice there? Thanks! |
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On Jun 21, 1:35*pm, Shanghai McCoy wrote:
zxcvbob wrote: Johnny wrote: I spray my collards with liquid *Sevin whenever cabbage worms appear.. I am apprehensive about eating the leaves and I wish to know if after careful washing the collard leaves, are they safe to consume? Thanks, Johnny Read the label: http://www.cdms.net/LDat/ld5ER002.pdf Do not use within 14 days on Chinese cabbage, collards, kale, or mustard greens. "BT" might be a better choice, and is nontoxic. Bob I haven't used anything on my herb garden, but something is chowing on my sage plant now. Would BT be a good choice there? Thanks!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Bt is the best choice for any type of butterfly or moth larva and that includes cabbage worms or loopers. It is very selective and virtually harmless to other lifeforms. It also has a good degree of persistance and can be used as preventive. It is a stomach poison so the larva have to ingest it. Carbaryl on the other hand is a contact poison, with a shot halflife, It will kill many insects that come in contact with it including cabbage worms. But it is most useful on beetles. It is not very poisonous to humans, a little less than Rotenone and has biodegraded with 24 hours, so I don't worry about poisoning myself, but it just is not nearly as effective on cabbage worms as Bt. |
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, " wrote: On Jun 21, 1:35*pm, Shanghai McCoy wrote: zxcvbob wrote: Johnny wrote: I spray my collards with liquid *Sevin whenever cabbage worms appear. I am apprehensive about eating the leaves and I wish to know if after careful washing the collard leaves, are they safe to consume? Thanks, Johnny Read the label: http://www.cdms.net/LDat/ld5ER002.pdf Do not use within 14 days on Chinese cabbage, collards, kale, or mustard greens. "BT" might be a better choice, and is nontoxic. Bob I haven't used anything on my herb garden, but something is chowing on my sage plant now. Would BT be a good choice there? Thanks!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Bt is the best choice for any type of butterfly or moth larva and that includes cabbage worms or loopers. It is very selective and virtually harmless to other lifeforms. It also has a good degree of persistance and can be used as preventive. It is a stomach poison so the larva have to ingest it. Carbaryl on the other hand is a contact poison, with a shot halflife, It will kill many insects that come in contact with it including cabbage worms. But it is most useful on beetles. It is not very poisonous to humans, a little less than Rotenone and has biodegraded with 24 hours, so I don't worry about poisoning myself, but it just is not nearly as effective on cabbage worms as Bt. Agreed, if you think it's larvae that are attacking your sage. Sevin is also safe around birds, but BT is better for caterpillars. Sevin kills any insect that comes in contact with it tho' so it also kills beneficials. The only reason I'll submit to using in desperation sometimes it is that it is so short lived. Only works for maybe 5 days at best, and it if gets wet, it's gone. I use it once or twice per year for flea control. I dust the entire yard the same day I Frontline the pets. I'm always saddened tho' sometimes by what I find dead. Last year, I found a dying female rhinoceros beetle. :-( It does control the fleas tho' and I've never had a problem with tics... -- Peace! Om "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein |
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Shanghai McCoy wrote: wrote: On Jun 21, 1:35 pm, Shanghai McCoy wrote: zxcvbob wrote: Johnny wrote: I spray my collards with liquid Sevin whenever cabbage worms appear. I am apprehensive about eating the leaves and I wish to know if after careful washing the collard leaves, are they safe to consume? Thanks, Johnny Read the label: http://www.cdms.net/LDat/ld5ER002.pdf Do not use within 14 days on Chinese cabbage, collards, kale, or mustard greens. "BT" might be a better choice, and is nontoxic. Bob I haven't used anything on my herb garden, but something is chowing on my sage plant now. Would BT be a good choice there? Thanks!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Bt is the best choice for any type of butterfly or moth larva and that includes cabbage worms or loopers. It is very selective and virtually harmless to other lifeforms. It also has a good degree of persistance and can be used as preventive. It is a stomach poison so the larva have to ingest it. Carbaryl on the other hand is a contact poison, with a shot halflife, It will kill many insects that come in contact with it including cabbage worms. But it is most useful on beetles. It is not very poisonous to humans, a little less than Rotenone and has biodegraded with 24 hours, so I don't worry about poisoning myself, but it just is not nearly as effective on cabbage worms as Bt. Thanks - I've been trying to keep the herb garden chem free, but most of my energy has been focused on this damned mole. Carl Spackler's method looks rather attractive at this point... I'm just not sure I can stay up late enough to make the kill if I 1)tape a flashlight to my rifle, 2) get stoned 3)drink a 6-pack. I'm also kinda short of C-4... Get a gray female cat. -- Peace! Om "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein |
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