Topic: Caterpillars

[janmac]

Good Morning all

Any great ideas for getting rid of caterpillars??  Ive got collars on the cabbages and they are covered in Enviromesh but they are still munching away????  Help please.

Janmac

[lincsyokel2]

pick them off by hand, into a bucket of water or something nastier.............

[goodlife]

Or..you could slap (gently) the leaves so that those caterpillars drop on ground and then hoe them in or rake them off into small hole..back fill with soil and job is done... ;)

[pigeonseed]

Or did you want to avoid getting to the caterpillar stage at all? I've been round squishing eggs where I find them. They take a while to hatch, so there's a window of opportunity.

But having said that... they've still shredded my purple sprouting broccoli leaves! So I must have missed a few.

I saw a neighbour built a beautiful cage of fleece round her cabbage seedlings, and a solitary cabbage white was flapping around inside it, unable to get out. A few days later - no leaves left.  ::)