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Re: something eating my Broccoli

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     Theresa,

     That little worm is a cabbage looper and it probably has a lit of 
friends hiding in your broccoli and cabbage. Those small holes will quickly 
turn into big holes, btw, and also your broccoli heads you harvest will have 
the worms in them (*not* a good thing to find out when the broccoili is on 
the end of your fork on its way to your mouth :). 
     Anyway, you need to get rid of them with a "pesticide".....organically 
or inorganically, whichever way you choose.
     I'll just post the formula I use on everything. 
     For each gallon of water in your sprayer, add 1/2 cup listerine, 3 tbls. 
baby shampoo, 3 tsp. ammonia (you can add some powdered cayenne pepper and 
even some powdered garlic to the mix if you want). 
     Blast the leaves with this every few days (making sure to hit the 
undersides of the leaves where they hide) for the rest of the season. You 
could do it all at once with something like "Sevin" or another chemical 
pesticide.....but a little extra "vigilance" can keep you from having to use 
those.
 
Lisa Viger

In a message dated 99-06-28 07:32:40 EDT, you write:
<< I'm having a problem with my broccoli. It seems as if something is eating
 at the new growth and chewing small holes in the leaves. I was checking the
 plants for any bugs and the only thing I found was one small lime green
 worm looking thing. Probably a catapillar of some sort, not sure. It was
 only on one plant. Anyways, I'm not sure what to treat the plants with. I'm
 gonna lose all my plants unless I can get rid of whatever is eating them.
 It seems as if the same pest enjoys the cabbage leaves too, although not as
 much as the broccoli. Any ideas or what I should treat them with?  the
 strange thing is, whatever it is, hasn't touched much else in the garden.
 Everything else seems to be doing fine.
  >>


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