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RE: Cut worm bait

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Thanks everyone, for your responses, I will keep the chickens penned as I
still have lots of garden untouched by the cutworms and here in our part of
Ontario the gardening season is short,
I have free ranged chickens before and they do like a little seedlings along
with their cutworms, I thing I will try the toothpicks,,,,right now I have
styrofoam cups around many things but I have still lost a few even in the
cups....my kids keep teasing me that I am growing marshmallows as that is
what all the white cups look like.....Sharon in Ontario

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Morris [p*@bevcomm.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 1:37 PM
> To: sqft@listbot.com
> Subject: Re: Cut worm bait
>
>
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> >Sharon:
>
> <snip>
> >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
>
>
> You're right, toothpicks will work great.  We've been using this
> method for
> several years with no cutworm problems.  I've found that two
> toothpicks per
> plant (one on either side of the stem) will do the trick - this
> will prevent
> the cutworms from wrapping around the stem and cutting it down.
>
> -Jim
> Winnebago, MN
> Zone 4b
>
>
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