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Re: Something is eating my Broccoli!

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At 7:17 PM -0600 4/10/99, Beerman famly wrote:
>Andy, could it be cut worms? I was turning over soil the other day for my
>onions and found 4 with in a small area. I just squish them. Could you
>take the
>empty paper rolls from TP and slit them down the side and put them around the
>stock of your plants? I've got some broccoli growing in the greenhouse in new
>soil so no cut worms in there this year but think I'll use something on my
>outdoor stuff .  Sandie

Thanks for the advice I got from several people on the list.  I've been on
several business trips and my email wasn't working for a while after my
post, so I apologize for the delay in responding.

After I put up the fence around the brassica square I had to go on a
business trip so did not do anything else to protect the plants.
Fortunately the attacks have ceased and the plants are recovering nicely.
I've concluded that the problem was bunnies and that I simply had not
noticed the damage to the one cauliflower.  It must have been injured prior
to the fence going up, not after as I thought.

The plants do have curling leaves.  GardenGuides
(http://www.gardenguides.com/vegetables/brassica.htm) says the condition is
called whip tail and indicates a shortage of molybdenum.  I will attempt to
find some "sodium molybdate" at the local nursery to fix this problem.

I'm a little confused about cutworms.  Are they a larval insect or a worm?
What do they look like?  I put the TP collars around my tomato transplants
just to be safe.

Andy


Andy Arkusinski
Corrales, NM
Zone 5


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