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Re: Cut worm bait

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Sharon:
My parents had some cutworms early in the season, and they used a solution that I hadn't heard of before. If it works, use it! Usually they use rough edged can collars, but those have only been partially successful. The whole idea behind the attack on cut worms is to wound them, so they cannot eat your plants.

My mother says that you should take toothpicks, rougher the better, and put them in a radiating pike formation around the very base of the stem. The cutworms cannot scale the pikes to eat your plants. She used four toothpicks per transplant.

You could experiment with metal cans and these little pikes.

Good luck,
Sheryl A. McCoy
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"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her
patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric
reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."
-Richard Feynman

On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 09:22:55    D & S Spry wrote:
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>Hi All, I have a problem with cutworms, <SNIP>....I have been told that it is a bad year for cutworms here in Central Ontario....any help would be appreciated......Sharon in Ontario



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