Re: Help! Cutworms are cutting down my plants.

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• To: s*@listbot.com, "Lisa Routhier" <b*@hotmail.com>
• Subject: Re: Help! Cutworms are cutting down my plants.
• From: "* M* <j*@theglobe.com>
• Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 07:37:54 -0700

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 If it is cutworms, any type of newspaper or toliet rolls that can be wrapped around the base of stem will deter them. I have also heard that if you stick 3-4 toothpicks close to the base of the plant it keeps them off. Good Luck
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On Mon, 31 May 1999 09:17:54   Lisa Routhier wrote:
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>So far I've lost one swiss chard, one zucchini plant, and a few broccolis 
>and cauliflowers.  They were totally gone overnight, cut down at the base of 
>the stem. (But not all on the same night.) Like it says in the book, I 
>looked around the soil of the dead plants and found a cutworm at the base of 
>the plant. (At least that's what I assumed it to be -- brown, looks like a 
>caterpillar but without the hair, and curled up sleeping.)
>
>How can I prevent this from happening to other plants?  I remember reading 
>something about putting a toilet paper tube around the stem of cauliflower 
>plants.... should I do this for *all* of my plants, cauliflower or not?
>
>The zucchini I lost was only a very young plant, so I still have time to 
>catch up.  But I fear that this might happen in the future to an older 
>plant, and for the vertically growing ones where a zillion fruit depend on 
>one single stem, if that stem gets destroyed, all will be lost.  Ack!!   
>What can I do...........
>
>Thanks a million for your advice!
>
>- Lisa in Ottawa
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