I dont want them laying their eggs and having my Broccoli Plants eaten away by Caterpillars Please help
2007-07-16 01:35:46 · 9 answers · asked by Mark H 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Besides covering seedbeds and transplants with netting you can interplant with plants that repel caterpillers such as sage, tansy, rosemary, nasturtium, catnip.
If you do see eggs on the broccoli,
Spray plants with soured milk. It'll kill the eggs.
If you see evidence of the caterpillers or loopers,
just sprinkle flour on the leaves while the plant is wet & they'll suffocate & fall off when they get pasted with the flour. I've used both the sour milk & flour methods & it's amazing how something so simple works so effectively.
Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt ) is also a caterpillar control:
http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/cabbage-worms
Good luck! Hope this helps.
2007-07-16 02:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by ANGEL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The larvae of these moths are the cabbage looper worms. As you know, they come from the cute little white moths flying around your yard. Covering the plants would be an option. We use dipel (active ingredient bacillus thurengiensis) or Bonide vegetable spray (active ingredient Neem oil). These are organic insecticides. Be sure to spray the undersides of the leaves and re-apply after watering or rain.
Visit our website for more organic gardening ideas at-
http://www.gardening-at-the-crossroads.com
Good Luck and Happy Gardening from Cathy and Neal!
2007-07-16 03:25:18 · answer #2 · answered by Neal & Cathy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a kid, my father used to send us out to his cabbage patch with a jar to collect the caterpillars and instructions to squash eggs. No caterpillars, meant no pocket money! Every job had a price in his house - said it taught us to be thrifty and develop a work ethic. By golly - the old boy was right!
2007-07-16 01:45:22 · answer #3 · answered by Veronica Alicia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got no idea how to stop butterfly grubs eating your cabbages, but I do know how to organically stop carrot fly grubs eating your carrots.
2016-04-01 06:38:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a mesh netting, stretched over a frame work that doesn't restrict height. You might be to late to stop the eggs from hatching, so every evening go bug hunting. Good luck!.
2007-07-16 01:42:54 · answer #5 · answered by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Seven dust
2007-07-16 01:48:45 · answer #6 · answered by Pups 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just cover them with netting obtainabl;e from any garden center.
2007-07-17 08:32:09 · answer #7 · answered by The old man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
buy a tin of derris dust and follow the instructions . good luck
2007-07-16 01:46:52 · answer #8 · answered by bill g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a little solutin of Fairy liquid and water, and twice a week application from a squirty bottle
2007-07-16 01:44:33 · answer #9 · answered by Croeso 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋