How do I stop the Cabbage White Butterflies attacking my Broccoli Plants?
Question:I dont want them laying their eggs and having my Broccoli Plants eaten away by Caterpillars Please help
Answers:
Besides covering seedbeds and transplants with netting you can interplant with plants that repel caterpillers such as sage, tansy, rosemary, nasturtium, catnip.
If you do see eggs on the broccoli,
Spray plants with soured milk. It'll kill the eggs.
If you see evidence of the caterpillers or loopers,
just sprinkle flour on the leaves while the plant is wet & they'll suffocate & fall off when they get pasted with the flour. I've used both the sour milk & flour methods & it's amazing how something so simple works so effectively.
Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt ) is also a caterpillar control:
http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/cabba...
Good luck! Hope this helps.
Use a mesh netting, stretched over a frame work that doesn't restrict height. You might be to late to stop the eggs from hatching, so every evening go bug hunting. Good luck!.
a little solutin of Fairy liquid and water, and twice a week application from a squirty bottle
When I was a kid, my father used to send us out to his cabbage patch with a jar to collect the caterpillars and instructions to squash eggs. No caterpillars, meant no pocket money! Every job had a price in his house - said it taught us to be thrifty and develop a work ethic. By golly - the old boy was right!
buy a tin of derris dust and follow the instructions . good luck
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The larvae of these moths are the cabbage looper worms. As you know, they come from the cute little white moths flying around your yard. Covering the plants would be an option. We use dipel (active ingredient bacillus thurengiensis) or Bonide vegetable spray (active ingredient Neem oil). These are organic insecticides. Be sure to spray the undersides of the leaves and re-apply after watering or rain.
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Good Luck and Happy Gardening from Cathy and Neal!
Just cover them with netting obtainabl;e from any garden center.
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