cabbage caterpillars

[PhilaGardener]

I can't imagine what the neighbors thought, seeing me running around chasing butterflies swinging the net around wildly while cursing them.

They probably couldn't see the butterflies

 

[catjac1975]

Bt works great on cabbage loopers and other worms-organic.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

They probably couldn't see the butterflies

 

[JimWWhite]

I grow cabbage in the winter.

This is the best advice of all. I've tried growing cabbage for years and have had the same results of holy heads to show for all my work. Last fall I planted both Dutch and Chinese cabbage and made the first crop ever without it being eaten up by the bugs and worms. The great thing about fall gardening is that you grow out of the heat and out of the bugs as opposed to spring gardening. I've even had good results planting corn in mid to late August and making a good crop before the first frost. Now that being said, I do live in the deep south and we do have a much longer growing season so I can get away with it.

 

[baymule]

Fall garden for lettuce, greens of all kinds, brassicas, green onions and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting. Spring garden for everything else. Early early early spring garden for 'taters! August-everything is dead except for the sweet potatoes.

 

[the1honeycomb]

Lovely!! I'm so tired of these caterpillars

 

[the1honeycomb]

I HAVE LOST THE WAR!!!!! I pulled all my broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower skeletons from my garden! I will try again in the fall. Had planned to make my first sauerkraut. Well next time I guess!

 

[baymule]

I HAVE LOST THE WAR!!!!! I pulled all my broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower skeletons from my garden! I will try again in the fall. Had planned to make my first sauerkraut. Well next time I guess!

So sorry. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

 

[annageckos]

I HAVE LOST THE WAR!!!!! I pulled all my broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower skeletons from my garden! I will try again in the fall. Had planned to make my first sauerkraut. Well next time I guess!

You lost the battle, you'll get them next time. Get some BT, it works. I'm fighting asparagus beetle larva right now, but I can't tell it the BT is working because it's raining EVERY DAY. I know how you feel.

 

[journey11]

Bummer. Maybe you can still do kraut with cabbage with bought cabbage.