Caterpillers are eating up my cabbage and brussels sprouts plants. What can I use to repel them? Home remedies?
Thanks!
2007-06-11 05:36:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Depends on the catepillars. Diatomaceous earth is non-toxic to us, but if a caterpillar walks across it, it will cut them to bits (not so nice). I'm in California, so there is a nice website that I can use to non- or least-toxically kill pests. It's from the university of California, Davis and I use it a lot. Anywho, it can give you better information that anyone here can, so good luck!
http://ipm.ucdavis.edu
2007-06-11 08:34:05 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Vida 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throw some wood ashes on your plants. They will help keep the bugs and beetles off them.
2007-06-11 05:39:50 · answer #2 · answered by devilishblueyes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
lol......dont listen to that guy tell you to use salt, it will kill your plants ....on the upside no plants ..no bugs....take hot peppers steep them in warm water for a day or two strain and use in a spay bottle..dont get it on you or in your eyes
this stuff is hott ....another is 1 full pouch of tobacco (chew)
to 1 gal of water steep in sun for a day or two use in spray bottle dont get any on you its poisonous.
2007-06-11 06:09:30 · answer #3 · answered by daniel c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best natural way is to hand pick them off.
2007-06-11 05:39:24 · answer #4 · answered by Debette 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pour salt around your plants this will burn these types of pest
2007-06-11 05:53:25 · answer #5 · answered by wiredlow 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋