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Re: Cut worm bait

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-----Original Message-----
From: Theresa <tmdavis@concentric.net>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: Cut worm bait

Hi:

I just inster two or three toothpick around the base of the plant
vertically.  Worked wonderfully until this year.  I will be back to wrapping
the stem of the plant after this.  That would keep them from climbing the
entire stem.

I read in OG magazine to save all those pesky inserts that come in magazines
(the ones to get you to subscribe, etc.) and use them.  They work great and
at least we are recycling them.

The toothpick simply keep them from wrapping themselves around the stem and
cutting it off at the soil line.  That is all I ever thought they did until
this year.  Boy, my cabbage and cauliflower know better.  They don't seem to
like the taste of broccoli much though thank heavens!

Found the first squash bugs yesterday! ICH!  Now the search for the eggs
begin in earnest.

Barbara in OK zone 6b/7 ?


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>Hello,
>
>I can't visualize what you do with the toothpicks. Do you stick them
>straight up vertically or do you lay them against the plant in a horizontal
>position? I don't have any problems now, but I'd like to keep this for
>reference in the future.
>
>Thanks much
>Theresa
>
>At 12:37 PM 6/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>>>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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