Name: Cinda Indiana Zone 5a Truth is worth finding
Tansy is a good repellant plant for cabbage worms ,I don't grow it in the same bed tansy can be rather a perennial bully. I do cut the tansy and lay the leaves on the soil rather like a mulch.
also wasps love the worms , when I am in the garden in the summer I see wasps go down into the cabbage leaves and come out with green worms so I leave wasp nests alone whenever possible.
Really awesome news - my box is on its way AND everything fit including Part II! I didn't know until everything was packed whether it was going to work, but thank God it did.
Was the leaf damage tiny holes in the leaf or spots where the chlorophyll was sucked out? The first scenario could possibly be Flea Beetles and the second Potato Leafhoppers. Leafhopper nymphs can be hard to see and they move and jump quickly. I'm not sure about the bug in your photo, but it appears to be a nymph phase of something. The shape reminds me of a Lacewing nymph but they are usually browner.
If your talking about that tiny bug that sticking part way off the edge of one leaf, it way to tiny for me to see what it is, but looks like it might be some leaffooted type of bug.
This is what I like to see. I did let a tomato horn worm munch away on one tomato plant as you could see the predator egg sac on it's back.
Kinda hard to see this little worm munching away on a snapdragon, but you can see the big white egg on it's back.
Sometimes, I don't kill all the worms munching and crunching away as you need to have them for the natural predators to come and lay their eggs and the larvae to have food to grow and develop to keep the pest populations down.
Hummmmmmm.. Interesting Cinda. I have some Tansy seed, guess I need to get it planted and try it as a mulch.
Danita, crazy thing is it was both spotted damage and entire leaves being munched away! I was thinking it could be some kind of beneficial nymph or a pest. No telling I guess.
I waited to dust the plant with diatomaceous earth until after I brought it in because I always worry that a ladybug or something might get on there and I don't want to accidently take out any of them or other beneficials. Athough DE is non-poison, it doesn't descriminate between pests and beneficials.
Hmmm, entire leaves sound like Tomato Hornworm. Since they are the same family, I'd investigate tomato and eggplant pests to see what damage fits. You may have had more than one type of culprit, too.
Sorellina, glad you got everything in your package you wanted to. I know I oinked up some of your stuff! I'm waiting on pins and needles here for your recipes!!! I was telling my hubby about what you and your hubby do. Now you've got me wanting to try Lemon Drop Peppers!!
I've been thinking about Jonna's sowing with vermiculite ... I dont have any in the garage, but I have perlite -- can it also be used for sowing?
~~ I'm going to try to dig a few plants to take to FL since the ground is thawed and all i have is perlite and peat, no potting soil at all.
I can probably mix those with soil as i have a huge dirt pile out back, though it will have weed seeds in it.
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has anyone grown Strawberry Spinach (Chenopodium capitatum) ? plant looks interesting and says can be used as a spinach substitute. is it easy to grow? will it grow where it gets really hot in the summer? (100+)
after all the swap activity I cannot stop myself from looking at seeds for sale. I am hopelessly addicted
tcs1366 wrote:I've been thinking about Jonna's sowing with vermiculite ... I dont have any in the garage, but I have perlite -- can it also be used for sowing?
~~ I'm going to try to dig a few plants to take to FL since the ground is thawed and all i have is perlite and peat, no potting soil at all.
I can probably mix those with soil as i have a huge dirt pile out back, though it will have weed seeds in it.
It won't work the same. Usually perlite is used in mixes. Not sure whether pure perlite will work the same in closed containers. It will sure not work mixed with any soil in closed containers.
Vermiculite is really not expensive. 100 Liters (26 gallon) cost about $ 20 -25 and it will last forever if you keep it dry. And you can reuse it. Not to sow in it again, because not germinated seeds can germinate next year and you won't know what came up. But I reuse it in the containers with plants to prevent them from drying out on hot summerdays. Or you can reuse it in dryer parts of your garden to keep it a bit more moist.
For sure. That was such a blast and I got used to keeping up with the oinking thread and chatter thread that it's kind of strange to not see much action anymore.
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