[Sca-cooks] Period gardening (was easy to grow herbs)

[Angie Malone]

Try salt water.  That's what I use for cabbage loppers and those other
green cabbage worm things.

	Angeline

At 08:01 AM 5/9/01 -0700, Chris Stanifer wrote:
>
>--- LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
>> I happen to use period gardening techniques because
>> they  grow
>> tastier/poison-free crops.
>
>Perhaps you can help me with this delimma, then...
>Whilst weeding my garden after work yesterday
>afternoon, I noticed my Gladiolas, Crocosmias and
>daylillies were being ravaged by tiny little
>inchworms... I would rather NOT spray them with a
>synthetic chemical poison, but garlic water and soapy
>water only seem to make them more hungry.  I have
>roughly 300 bulbs of various types in only one of my
>beds, and ALL of them are being eaten...  Do you know
>of any effective period/organic methods for removing
>inchworms from bulb foliage?  And, I'd rather not have
>to pick them off by hand, since each plant has about 3
>or 4 on it....  So, aside from dousing the whole bed
>with carbaryl, what would you suggest?
>
>Also, an unknown pest has taken a liking to my peas,
>broad beans, and turnips, so I need a
>'veggie-friendly' method of erradicating them, as
>well.
>
>Balthazar of Blackmoor
>
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