Re: Broccolli problems...pests!

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Fern,
 
Thank you for the information.  I looked up BT (Bacillus thuringiensis), and you are right!  It can be used on food crops, and it kills worms!  What a wonderful thing.  Do I sound naieve?  I just have never used alot of pesticides in my garden.  I have all of this long range oil...and other kinds of pest stuff..Diazinon, seven..etc......but I just choke when it comes time to spray.  I have always just let things work themselves out in the past.  Even to the point of pruning my rose bushes back when powder mildew occurs, rather than use a fungicide.  Sorry if I offended the purists, but roses fit into my sq.. ft. gardening plan.  I just hate using things that might get eaten by my family and myself...eventually. 
 
I have always used the philosophy...if I can't grow it...It just doesn't belong here.
 
I am going to actually try this...I want to grow broccoli this year!!!!
 
Thanks,
Peg
-----Original Message-----
From: Fern Guyer <f*@ifriendly.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <s*@listbot.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: Broccolli problems...pests!

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From: Kevin Henson <k*@thesocket.com>
I am growing broccoli for the first time in my garden....  The Broccoli is biting the dust.  I have one plant that has been stripped of
all of its leaves.  I did some research, and the answer was to put seven on
the plants.

The holes are in the middle of the leaves...until there isn't a middle
anymore...then the whole leaf is gone.

Peg,
 
Use Bt....what you have is cabbage worms (I think that's what there called ) and they love brassica plants.....I just handpicked about 10 of the green varmints off of my cabbage...unfortunately my broccoli seeds didn't germinate  :(  Anyway, Bt is natural.....only kills the worms, nothing else.  Hope this helps, you can still salvage that broccoli! btw Bt works on tomato hornworms in the summer too :)
 
Fern
So Cal
Zone ?
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