Brummet's Conscious Blog

Getting Rid of Cabbage Moth  * Today's article was offered by Richard Haigh, and had some minor editing done by Lillian Brummet before publication here. Richard writes regularly at http://the-organic-grower.blogspot.com / and invites you to read more of his articles about organic gardening there. You do everything possible to have healthy growth and 'bang' your plants get slammed by some critter or another. This time it is cabbage moth that is causing trouble... What do you do? As more and more of us are concerned about climate change from chemicals and the like, we turn to the old ways of control. This means, in general, natural control for all those bugs that help themselves to our crops. Cabbage moth layers its eggs on the leaves of cabbage, and caterpillars are the result. Rapid loss of leaves from your crop, is the consequence of this. The best and sure way of dealing with this is to take a bucket of hot water and go round your plants daily and pick the caterpillars of...