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...

Control Carrot and Celery Fly  * Today's article was written by Richard Haigh; he  writes regularly at The-Organic-Grower.blogspot.com   and invites you to read more of his articles about organic gardening there. That little pest that really annoys me is the Carrot fly: A creature that is a member of the Psilidae family, also called " Rust Flies ". Apart from eating carrots, they can also be found on: celery, parsnips and parsley. I seems me that they are out to get my crop, what ever I do. To understand them, the place to start is to know what they do. The fly lays their eggs at the base of the plant, they hatch and start eating the nearest food, which is, your crop. The fly is attacked to the seedlings by the odour of them There are two ways of preventing this, both of them, try to make the crop distasteful to the fly. One way of doing this is to soak sawdust in paraffin and spread this down between the rows. Another idea is to spread wood ash over the whole seed-bed. H...