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Re: cutworm solutions?

A finishing nail will also work for cutworms but what you are describing 
does not sound like cutworms more like CPB's or crickets. Cutworms wrap 
themselves around the plant stalk and TIMMM BER! the plant comes down. 
Hence the toothpicks or nail or toilet roll tubes or aluminium foil wrap.
denise beck wrote:
> 
> Try the toothpicks around the stems trick.
> 
> ----------
> > From: Havi Hoffman <vegetablegarden.guide@ferris.icsn.com>
> > To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> > Subject: cutworm solutions?
> > Date: Saturday, June 07, 1997 9:27 AM
> >
> > Cutworms seem to have found my tomatoes this year--eating into the tiny
> > green ones and lower leaves.  I'm doing the flashlight in the dark method
> > of eradication--one down, don't know how many to go.  Any other
> suggestions
> > or solutions?  Not too keen on chemicals...
> >
> > thanks,
> > Havi
> >
> >
> >
> > Havi Hoffman
> >
> > look what's growing now...Vegetable Gardens
> > at The Mining Company (www.miningco.com)
> > http://vegetablegarden.miningco.com
> > vegetablegarden.guide@miningco.com

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