Thursday, June 9, 2011

What to do with Cabbage Loopers

I fortunately have not had to deal with any cabbage loopers until now. Last year, my plants looked like a lace doily, and I never got any broccoli from those plants.  It's nice to know that there is a place to take them when I find them though!


I spent two hours out in the garden with sprinklers and new fertilizer. I bought some new organic fertilizer and some blood meal yesterday.  Organic = stinky.  I had to breathe through my mouth for the whole process, but I had several of my paste tomatoes get blossom end rot, and it's been a while since any of my plants have been fed.  I've done a much better job with that, and keeping the plants staked this year, but it's still a hard thing for me to remember to do!

I picked a full sized zucchini and my first yellow squash today! More peas were picked, and I'm about to go plant some more green beans. I cut all but the very newest growth out of my strawberries today, because they appear done. I did this based off of a suggestion from my great uncle, so we'll see how they do. They were looking pretty sad and diseased anyway.

4 comments:

  1. I practically have to wear a gas mask when I use that organic fertilizer! Between that and the fish emulsion, I don't know which smells worse.

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  2. I need to fertilize too. I think that the fish/seaweed fertilizer smells like the beach!

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  3. Cabbage loopers can sure do some damage, and hopefully you can find some BT in your area to take care of them.

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  4. Granny- I'll have to consider the gas mask! The bag stunk before I even opened it. I have used fish emulsion for a while, and I feel like I can stomach that a bit better... I don't know, maybe not! :)

    Robin- you must be crazy! :) Not the stuff that I buy! It smells like the ground up fish goo that it is!

    EG- They sure can! Fortunately, there haven't been too many. I haven't done much searching for BT yet, but the turtles do a nice number on them once I've handpicked them!

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