Yes, we have lots of the cabbage butterflies in ND also. One simple remedy I've found is simple with little if no impact on the environment for these critters and other bugs, especially one's like Japanese betels. Take a coffee cup size cup with a handle put a very very small amount (few drops) of mild dishwashing soap in it, run the faucet strong to cause a lather. Just go around and knock the offenders in the soapy water and they suffocate quickly. Great for the faint of heart and you don't end up with bug sticky fingers.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Nice! Yeah soapy remedies can be super useful in a number of scenarios!

I started watching with the hope of just a quick answer yet got a really great tutorial in system thinking about pests. I can’t thank you enough!

Wow amazing timing as I'm in the middle of trying to figure this out!

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Happy we could help ya Morgan! :D

When using floating row covers, they have to be “sealed” against the ground or the cabbage moths will find a way in.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Yup that makes sense! Good catch!

Awesome, thx for sharing

great video! 🙂 one other thing you also can do, if you don't want the butterfly's to extinct, is plant a few somewhere else in the garden and let them eat those completely.

Great video! Super informative!

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Thrilled to hear it!

Yep, i sure have these on my cabbages, and I’ve found a ton of earwigs too.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Oh no! Hope this has helped to get rid of them!

Great video, thanks

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Ah thanks so much!!

I've read that plants that get nibbled by pests actually increase the nutrition in the plant! I'm not sure if this is true, but I thought that was interesting.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Super interesting!

1st year gardening & these are devouring my brussell sprouts. The smaller completely gone. Are they still able to recover and produce at this stage?

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

There is hope! Definitely continue to allow it to grow to see how it does - specifically where the new growth comes out of - this will allow you to more deeply learn the plant. It might not be the best crop, but the learnings will be a plenty!

My kale got completely decimated overnight to a small worm that was green and black striped. They were same size as cabbage worms. I picked them all off that I could find. My plants are skeletal now, not sure if they will make it or not but I am spraying today with insecticidal soap.

@FF-ub7bn

15 күн бұрын

Army worms. During the day they hide curled up just under the soil at the base of plants.

I don't have a cabbage worm problem but I do have something that's destroying the tomatoes. So far 3 plants are destroyed, eaten to the stem. I can't see any larvae, I do feel small egg like things on the underside of leaves, no slime, although I have found quite a few slugs in the shaded garden. Lettuce, tomatoes, and other soft leafed plants are affected, some badly. I don't know what I'm dealing with.

@busybee2477

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like cut worms they eat your leaves and only come out in the early morning and late afternoon. Thay are green hard to see.

@ElliesDonna14

Жыл бұрын

Tomato horn worm. They will destroy a plant in a days time.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Some great insight here! Thanks for the comments! I'd recommend looking up both those and seeing which one looks more in line with what you're seeing on your plant, and the beginning an integrated pest management plan from there!

@ninemoonplanet

Жыл бұрын

I did an after darker cruise through the pots, saw one major problem, slugs. I thought I had dealt with them, obviously I didn't. The soggy weather didn't allow the soil surfaces to dry out. My partial solution is adding dry used coffee grounds on the pots after the weather finally stopped raining. Second solution was more midnight strolls and picking off/up slugs and putting them in a container for the birds to enjoy come morning. I keep a rough count of how many and where, so I do seem to be reducing the population of slugs.

@ninemoonplanet

Жыл бұрын

After dark, as in midnight.