Re: [CH] Accckkk!!!
harryo@dave-world.net
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:28:02 +0000
Cutworms don't eat leaves. They cut the whole plant off and just
leave a stub of a stem, with the rest of the plant lying on the
ground. Grasshoppers are voracious leaf eaters and are also tough to
kill, if they are very big. If you have many grasshoppers around
your garden, they could very well be the culprits. Also, birds play
havoc with young plants and tomato cages will not keep them out
unless you wrap some netting around them.
Harry
> From: "Suz" <spnsp@ix.netcom.com>
> To: "Chile Heads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
> Subject: [CH] Accckkk!!!
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:39:28 -0700
> Reply-to: "Suz" <spnsp@ix.netcom.com>
> Help!
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> 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.
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> 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??
>
> ("`-'-/").___..--''"`-._ Suz,
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