Thanks to all of you for your ideas on combating the worm. Am able to hand pick worms in home garden. The commercial garden is too big for this though.
Just back from a day of hoeing (use a stirrup hoe, sometimes a wheel hoe) at the commercial organic farm I work on. As you say Sharon the skies are still beautiful here in northern New Mexico (now that the forest fires are under control no smoke) - large cumulus cloud masses forming overing the Sangre de Christo Mountain now, but looks like the rain will be restricted to the mountain tops again. Cheers, Tom >hello thomas , i used to garden at several sites in northern n.m. about 25 >years ago. what you have is cabbage worms (they are green ) you might be >blessed as well someday by army worms they come in a sort of camo color.. we >don't use b.t., though i think it is allowable on organic standards, because >we want to be in control of what we use not depend on store bought prodocts. >so what to do.. if you only have a small garden you can hand pick them >(check for egg clusters under the leaves) also i've noticed that wasps (like >the ones that sting)eat the worms, so get some wasps if you don't have some >and try not to kill them if you do . they are your ally's in the worm war! >say hi to the sky out there for me :)sharon >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Thomas Schley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:24 PM >Subject: Re: Cabbage Worm (?) > > > > I'm in New Mexico - hot sunny days with cool nights. I've just found > > little eggs and a green worm about half an inch long on the leaves. > > Tom > > > > > > >Where are you on the earth??? If it is hot and you are growing cool >weather > > >crops it could be flea beetles...SStorch > > > > > >
