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Re: something eating my Broccoli

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Thanks to everyone for the advice on the broccoli. I did some searches on
that cabbage worm and cabbage looper and they defintely look like the
little pest I smushed. 

  Has anyone tried the Safer products? They have a soap and a BT. 

Thanks
Theresa
zone 5
michigan



At 08:06 AM 6/28/99 EDT, you wrote:
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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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