[CH] Accckkk!!!

Suz (spnsp@ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:39:28 -0700

Help!

Something is eating the leaves of my pepper plants!!  They were nice healthy
strong leaves yesterday, now some plants are nothing more than stems.  I
dusted them with the Ortho vegetable stuff, maybe that will help.  I don't
know if it's grasshoppers (thanks again to el niņo) or cutworms or ???????
The plants are in cages to keep the bunnies and squirrels out, that was a
lesson learned a few years ago.

These are the same babies that germinated on top of my cable box in ziplock
baggies, graduated to peat pots in the warm kitchen, and finally made it
outdoors just a couple of weeks ago under protective plastic milk cartons.
The ones that are still under the milk cartons are uneaten, which makes me
think grasshoppers are responsible.  Do grasshoppers like pepper plants?

Any suggestions??

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