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Re: Cabbage Worms

the bleach sounds good.  Water or salt water won't kill them, they will 
just climb out.  I once put some broccoli in a bowl of salt water and 
left it overnight.  the next morning the kitchen wall was covered with 
worms, and a lot more than I thought were there.

Ron

>Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:45:33 -0500
>From: sarae@jamtv.com (Sara Ellis)
>To: sqft@lists.umsl.edu
>Subject: Re: Cabbage Worms
>
>Here's what one of my botany professors used to do, and if you spend 
enough
>time at it, it's quite effective:
>
>-- mix some bleach (not very much, maybe 1 part bleach to 8 parts water 
or
>less) and water in a mop bucket
>-- pick the cabbage worms off the plants and toss 'em into the bleach 
mixture
>
>Of course, dumping the bleach mixture becomes the next challenge. Now 
that I
>think about it, you probably don't even need the bleach, just enough 
water (or
>maybe some salt mixed in instead of bleach) to drown the worms. At 
least this
>way, you're sure you get the bugs off your plants, and you don't have 
to spray
>your plants with anything!
>
>just my $.02,
>
>sara
>zone 5, in the heart of Chicago
>
>Doreen Howard wrote:
>
>> Bart,
>> Sevin won't do much to these chewing pests, but Bt or Bacillus 
thurenginses
>> will stop them cold.  Look for it under the brand names of Dipel (in 
powder
>> form) or Thuricide in liquid form.  Follow the directions on the 
package.
>> This is an accepted "organic" pesticide.
>> Doreen Howard
>>
>
>
>
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