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Re: Help! Cutworms are cutting down my plants.

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Actually, anything will work as a collar to keep out cutworms:  paper, 
pieces of old roofing paper, etc.  I used to use old 8 1/2 x 11 manila file 
folders which I cut in 2 inch strips (leaving me a piece 2" x 17"), and 
placed around the plant leaving the top 3/4 inch or so above the soil line.  
Sometimes a cutworm would be trapped inside my collar, but not very often.  
Cutworms tend to disappear when it gets real hot & the paper disappears.


>
>At 09:17 AM 31-05-99 -0400, Lisa Routhier wrote:
> >So far I've lost one swiss chard, one zucchini plant, ...(snipped)
>This has worked for me for broccoli: cut both ends off an aluminum drink
>can and bury it in the center of a square foot, putting your seed (or
>seedling) right in the center.  Leave about a cm. (half inch) above the
>surface.  The stem of the broccoli will not quite expand to fill the space
>in the can if you use one of the smaller varieties.
>
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