I bought Monterey BT last year on your recommendation. It REALLY REALLY helped my garden, esp w regards to saving many plants in my raised bed. Thank you. The raised bed helped stave off rabbits & the BT stopped these little buggers.
Normally don't use anything except picking them off by hand. But this Autumn has seen record numbers of these bastards here thanks to long overdue rain and ideal climate conditions. Thankyou so much for this vid- you literally saved my brasica crops from the brink of destruction. 2 sprays, 7 days apart annihilated them all. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
The word Caterpillar is actually from an old French term meaning "hairy cat", which displaced the native Old English term "cawelworm" which would be "coleworm/kaleworm" in modern spelling conventions. Glad to see the notion still lives, I suppose modern farmers face many challenges they did in days of yore.
Not great! I got a few cucumbers and some small tomatoes. I got 1 cabbage and made sauerkraut. Then the weeds got away from me so I don't know what else might be out there. T-T Thanks for asking @josechavez
@@heartofmythril we used a landscape fabric like the UA-cam channel Living traditions homestead uses. Allows to prevent weeds. I'm still battling bugs too.
Last year, this caterpillar was so bad that i used BT but I found that cabbage leaves are so waxy that the spray just rolls off the leaves. So I put a batch in a bowl and used a sponge to wipe all the leaves. Seemed to work.
"Those stupid moths....." I love it. This year I tried using a pest cloth over all of my brassicas, but those little @#!&% got to my plants anyway. I was hoppin' mad. That stuff is now on my Amazon wish list. Thank you.
What does this do to soil microbiology once applied? Though organic can it have a negative response for beneficial insects you're trying to attract and keep around?
Is it dumb that this makes me feel so bad! I have been seeing these butterfly’s throughout my raised bed and I thought they were good for it, until I did more research. This is my first year, trying for a garden. I have been scraping the eggs off my leaves but this is very time consuming as half of my raised garden bed is brassica. I bought the Monterey B.t. but the thought of them starving to death, makes me feel so bad! 😭 I’m so torn right now.
Same. I heard it's a flesh eating bacteria that eats them alive and was like what!? I hand pick them off every damn day. But it's annoying. I'm like. I keep warning them...if they do a horrible death now it's on them, right? 😭
@@sadsky4811 Ugh! I had to give in to the spray. They were destroying my plants. B.T is the only organic pesticide I’ve used in my garden. I have such a hard time killing anything. That may make me a horrible gardener.
I've been battling these pests so far they have been winning. I just decided to start over with my brassicas and someone suggested using mothballs hung near your brassicas and covered with a cover so they don't get wet. So that's what I've done. The mothballs are very stinky so it repels the cabbage moths before it even lands on your brassicas. I really hope this works. I've done homemade insecticidal soap with citronella, I've used potash all over my broccoli and kale, nothing is working so far. 😢😡 I really don't want to buy a chemical, I'd rather grow them under cover but hopefully this mothballs thing works
Used the same product on pickle worm in my cucumber patch, they were boring their way into the cucumbers but now they just eat themselves halfway in and stop, I pull them out of their little holes in the morning. Not perfect but I can just cut out their little holes and save 99.9% of the cucumbers. This product has me confident enough to grow cabbage next year. Cabbage is great filler food
Yes it is,! Good for the guy. I like cabbage fried in bacon grease with fresh ground pepper and one other spice from cumin to oregano or what ever my mood is that night. Great for those doing keto.. which I do not do but I tend to include a lot of keto recipes to keep carbs down and still fill up.
I stripped my cabbages down to little tennis balls to find them. It looks bad but I figured I'm not going to get anything if I don't find them. So now we'll wait and see how the cabbage deals with being naked.
I found it helps cut down on them noticeably, but you can't really get it under the leaves, and if it's very windy you have to apply it often. Last season I used it it would usually rain within 24 hours of me applying it. I will look into this BT stuff though!
@@CaptainDar it works. I bought it last season after fighting these buggers for a few years straight… even after using seven dust w the puffer tool (if you have a puffer tool for seven dust, add a few coins inside to help keep the powder unpacked. Someone on Amazon recommended it & it works). BT worked but you must have a sprayer that allows you to spray under & around the leaves.
Maybe. I think they prefer cabbage, hence the name, but IME they also LOVE mallows (Malva, Sidalcea, etc.) and catnip! They have completely decimated my mallows. They especially like the flowers. I was able to save the catnip and viola, but had to examine each plant and pick them off by hand every other day for a few weeks. You might want to try growing Candytuft, which is easy to find seed packets for, doesn't take up too much space, and is an annual in the Brassica family. I've never grown it though.
Another natural way to take care of caterpillars and other "worms" in the garden is to cultivate the paper wasps which like to nest under the eaves of a house. Each cell in their nest is the future home of a caterpillar paralyzed by the wasp's sting. These wasps are completely docile as long as you restrain yourself from swatting or flailing your arms around when you see them nearby. Once they realize you're not there to bother them, they will let you approach all the way to the nest.
The cabbage moth has moved on from brassicas in my garden and is are now attacking the squash, peas, carrots, radishes, just everything. In past years the wasps would keep the loopers under control, But the wasps are no where to be seen. It's so devastating. 😥😥😭
I’m facing the same problem. They started on my kohlrabi but moved on to peppers and carrots. It’s so annoying. I tried the soapy water trick, and it worked for a day. Then I tried diligence and picking off the stupid caterpillars but I couldn’t keep up. I’ll have to give this method a try.
I can’t remember if it was NextLevel or somewhere else that recommended this but you can inject straight BT into the center space stalk of squash above where it’s being attacked. BT will kill them but you have to catch them before they completely chew thru your squash plant. Don’t use syringes like are used for insulin. You’ll need a much larger gauge syringe. I tried the smaller syringes (DH is a diabetic). BT is too thick to pass thru the needle & the tips of the small gauges bend too easily. It saved the few squash plants I had left after figuring out what was attacking them.
I found a lot of these caterpillars on my plants as I brought them indoors for the winter. It was difficult to find them, but I knew there were no more on a specific plant when there was no more small round poop near it. I have put them in a plastic box with holes so they can breathe and fed them with cabbage from the supermarket. Some of them died, but at this time, one has become a moth (and passed away), and I set it free in my house 20-30 days ago. Other 2 are still caterpillars and 2 are turning into moths. The moth was pretty friendly, it did not fly away when I got near it and sometimes it would fly on my hand. This morning I found the one moth dead in my bed, but it wasn't crushed. I researched on the internet and found out that they live 24-33 days. I just hope that the moth didn't lay eggs, because they are pretty annoying when your houseplants get destroyed by them. I usually poison mealybugs and other pests, but I couldn't kill the caterpillars.
My cucumbers leaves are so damaged, but The vines and flower blooms are healthy and plentiful. Should I cut off the damaged leaves and then treat with BT or leave them on and treat?
I grow these beautyfull creatures once. My husband brought me cavolo nero from our vegetable garden and I noticed those yellow eggs on a leaf.. I put the leaf in a glass vase and in a few als the firs5 caterpillars appeared, and now I am waiting for the first butterfly ❤! My grandchildren loved this home project. So, no, we don't kill them and certainly don't use poison or something like that. Here in Holland we had a plague of box tree moths, many people used something to kill them, but the small singing birds who eat them and feed them to their chicks were killed as well...😢
I love your videos- thank you so much for the information in them. I'm having serious issues with these little jerks right now, picking them off, using neem, and now I know how to find the eggs. But I have a question - when you have plants that are pretty "lacey" from this, but super young (8" tall) - how far is "too far gone" or if I maintain now, can they still grow out ok? Mine are just slightly worse than yours. (Definitely going to get BT today!!) Thank you again for the great help in ALL your videos - mega fan!
Could you do a video on Blight and Fungus my very first tomato plant got hit pretty hard and I can seem to find a good explanation on prevention or how to save a plant once this happens.
I hope this works! I’m newer and I even bought netting and put it over and something else is eating the leaves. I don’t see a flood of the white moths anymore so not sure which it is leaving holes in my cabbage leaves especially. 😔😩
Every single video I see about these shows people treating basically seedlings. I had no issues with these until my cabbages were solid and 6 to 8 inches large.
I so hope that you respond to this post. Both of those damn worms in your video have destroyed my precious Brussel sprouts and cabbage. Lime has had no effect. I tried captain jacks neem oil them and it totally killed them. I did not use more than necessary and everything has responded beautifully to this application without any strange side effects whatsoever. The question I have is now that everything is on a totally unbelievable rebound, how many of the chewed up leaves can I remove, or by doing so would this desire restunt my plants further. As they say, leave well enough alone.
Any tips for aphids? My marigolds are absolutely covered in aphids. I'm in Taiwan, and taiwan doesnt seel post control outside of stuff farmers are allowed to use. The best I can get is a "natural" mold and pest control spray that is doing practically nothing against the aphids. I have tried the dish soap and water spray, and that seems to be helping better, but my marigolds are suffering badly 😭😭😭
I've heard you could try releasing ladybugs since they eat aphids. I have also used the soapy water trick and I read you should do it every 2 to 3 days until they are gone. Hope that helps.
I really appreciate you repeatedly referring to them as stupid moths because I like to respect all nature and they're pretty and yadda yadda blah blah but when I see them I do accurately refer to them as those damn stupid moths... their rightful technical name. Also, how often do I use this magical BT juice which kills these damn stupid moths?
@@epicgardening Thanks for that link. Very informative. I am having this issue in southern Australia right now and losing all my kale plants. As its a home garden I have been picking the worms off and stepping on them, but its getting tedious doing a search every day. I didn't know that those white spots were eggs. I could have been squashing them too. Thanks again, mate. Very helpful video.
I have my brassicas apart from my other plants in its own bed. I see it as they don't attract bees. By the time they would flower and have anything a bee would consider, your food would be picked and eaten anyways. There's tons of other things the bees will be busy with.
It is a bacillus. Monterey B.t. must be eaten by worms or caterpillars to be effective. After ingesting the insecticide, they immediately stop feeding, though they may otherwise appear to be unaffected for several days. Best results are obtained by treatments when worms are small; they must be actively feeding on treated, exposed foliage. You may apply Monterey B.t. up to and on the day of harvest. Apply Monterey B.t. when worms or caterpillars are first noticed. Apply more frequently to control heavy infestations. Apply thoroughly to top and bottom of foliage.
Mine are netted😄....but the bastards have still mullered whole row!😬....I think they must be dropping their eggs from above,or where the leaves touch the netting.😬
@@herbertabraham2174 - has it worked? How many birds have been trapped in your brassica cage? Not being judgey, just a question as the reason I don't use nets is so many birds have met their end on our community plot inside netted beds, even when the nets are tightly pegged down.
@@carlduffin ..I've not had a problem...I've got raspberries in it as well and I tend it every day....no birds can get in...its zipped and cable tied all round.....absolutely no chance of a bird getting in and none have been tangled in it,I think now they know they can't get in so they focus on my apple trees instead!
“I don’t want them to live life anymore, I want them to be gone.” That is much nicer than what I’ve been saying about them lately! Haha.
Haha i just called them little cocksuckers when i found them on my Brussel sprouts befire i found this
This part made me laugh 😂
“I don’t want them to live life anymore” 😂😂
Saying that over the wholesome background music was hilarious
Deff my fave part. Hahaha.
I bought Monterey BT last year on your recommendation. It REALLY REALLY helped my garden, esp w regards to saving many plants in my raised bed. Thank you. The raised bed helped stave off rabbits & the BT stopped these little buggers.
Normally don't use anything except picking them off by hand. But this Autumn has seen record numbers of these bastards here thanks to long overdue rain and ideal climate conditions. Thankyou so much for this vid- you literally saved my brasica crops from the brink of destruction. 2 sprays, 7 days apart annihilated them all. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
What did you spray cause I can’t get rid of mine even with sprays
The word Caterpillar is actually from an old French term meaning "hairy cat", which displaced the native Old English term "cawelworm" which would be "coleworm/kaleworm" in modern spelling conventions. Glad to see the notion still lives, I suppose modern farmers face many challenges they did in days of yore.
Sweet, short and to the point, loved it. Thank you for the great tip 😊
Thank you! I try to make these videos as concise as possible :) - let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement in the next ones!
Epic Gardening day
The first year a ground hog ran off with my cabbage, the second year the cabbage worms ate them. This year is gonna be my year.
Nice 👌
So how’d this year play out?
Not great! I got a few cucumbers and some small tomatoes. I got 1 cabbage and made sauerkraut. Then the weeds got away from me so I don't know what else might be out there. T-T
Thanks for asking @josechavez
@@heartofmythril I hope this year is better!
@@heartofmythril we used a landscape fabric like the UA-cam channel Living traditions homestead uses. Allows to prevent weeds. I'm still battling bugs too.
I have a bad infestation on my cabbage plant. I’m glad I found this video. Thank you.
Last year, this caterpillar was so bad that i used BT but I found that cabbage leaves are so waxy that the spray just rolls off the leaves. So I put a batch in a bowl and used a sponge to wipe all the leaves. Seemed to work.
"Those stupid moths....." I love it. This year I tried using a pest cloth over all of my brassicas, but those little @#!&% got to my plants anyway. I was hoppin' mad. That stuff is now on my Amazon wish list. Thank you.
What does this do to soil microbiology once applied? Though organic can it have a negative response for beneficial insects you're trying to attract and keep around?
Thank you for a quick thorough answer to my cabbage worm problems.
For those growing leafy greens indoors can you just use this spray as a preventative measure? Or should you only use it if you spot eggs?
Is it dumb that this makes me feel so bad! I have been seeing these butterfly’s throughout my raised bed and I thought they were good for it, until I did more research. This is my first year, trying for a garden. I have been scraping the eggs off my leaves but this is very time consuming as half of my raised garden bed is brassica. I bought the Monterey B.t. but the thought of them starving to death, makes me feel so bad! 😭 I’m so torn right now.
Same. I heard it's a flesh eating bacteria that eats them alive and was like what!? I hand pick them off every damn day. But it's annoying. I'm like. I keep warning them...if they do a horrible death now it's on them, right? 😭
@@sadsky4811 Ugh! I had to give in to the spray. They were destroying my plants. B.T is the only organic pesticide I’ve used in my garden. I have such a hard time killing anything. That may make me a horrible gardener.
@@amanda_pizana same. Same. I didn't realize gardening would be this hard "morally".
@@sadsky4811 LOL!! 😂😂 I know, right?!
That is an informative video! Straight forward and educational
Can I spray this on my herbs, the worms ate most of my mint leaves and sage
Is it nontoxic for herbs? Thanks
Thanks for recomending this video. Going to get some so that I can get good harvests again.
You're welcome!
I"m currently using this product right now. This is the first year using this product so I hope it will be a success.
How is it working for you? How often do you have to apply?
I lost my entire crop of brussel sprouts Grrrrr. I will try Monterey B.t.
I've been battling these pests so far they have been winning. I just decided to start over with my brassicas and someone suggested using mothballs hung near your brassicas and covered with a cover so they don't get wet. So that's what I've done. The mothballs are very stinky so it repels the cabbage moths before it even lands on your brassicas. I really hope this works. I've done homemade insecticidal soap with citronella, I've used potash all over my broccoli and kale, nothing is working so far. 😢😡 I really don't want to buy a chemical, I'd rather grow them under cover but hopefully this mothballs thing works
Mothballs are toxic
Will neem oil do the same thing ?
Used the same product on pickle worm in my cucumber patch, they were boring their way into the cucumbers but now they just eat themselves halfway in and stop, I pull them out of their little holes in the morning. Not perfect but I can just cut out their little holes and save 99.9% of the cucumbers. This product has me confident enough to grow cabbage next year. Cabbage is great filler food
Awesome fermented also
Yes it is,! Good for the guy. I like cabbage fried in bacon grease with fresh ground pepper and one other spice from cumin to oregano or what ever my mood is that night. Great for those doing keto.. which I do not do but I tend to include a lot of keto recipes to keep carbs down and still fill up.
Those little devils really know how to chow down. I've seen one or two of those little bastards utterly ruin a cabbage i was growing.
Same here. They're my #1 garden pest!
I just called them bastards today at work hahaha
I stripped my cabbages down to little tennis balls to find them. It looks bad but I figured I'm not going to get anything if I don't find them. So now we'll wait and see how the cabbage deals with being naked.
Does this BT thing hurts other insects like bees or monarch caterpillars?
Thank you so much. These things are infesting my garden. There’s been an explosion of them and they’re eating everything
New Sub.....thanks!!!
Apparently sevin dust isn't good enough to get rid of them. Since I keep getting the holes well after I apply.
👍🏼😉🌱
I found it helps cut down on them noticeably, but you can't really get it under the leaves, and if it's very windy you have to apply it often. Last season I used it it would usually rain within 24 hours of me applying it. I will look into this BT stuff though!
@@CaptainDar it works. I bought it last season after fighting these buggers for a few years straight… even after using seven dust w the puffer tool (if you have a puffer tool for seven dust, add a few coins inside to help keep the powder unpacked. Someone on Amazon recommended it & it works). BT worked but you must have a sprayer that allows you to spray under & around the leaves.
Hi What about planting plants/flowers that attract the cabbage butterfly . ? These would these would deflect them from the brassicas .
Maybe. I think they prefer cabbage, hence the name, but IME they also LOVE mallows (Malva, Sidalcea, etc.) and catnip! They have completely decimated my mallows. They especially like the flowers. I was able to save the catnip and viola, but had to examine each plant and pick them off by hand every other day for a few weeks. You might want to try growing Candytuft, which is easy to find seed packets for, doesn't take up too much space, and is an annual in the Brassica family. I've never grown it though.
Another natural way to take care of caterpillars and other "worms" in the garden is to cultivate the paper wasps which like to nest under the eaves of a house. Each cell in their nest is the future home of a caterpillar paralyzed by the wasp's sting. These wasps are completely docile as long as you restrain yourself from swatting or flailing your arms around when you see them nearby. Once they realize you're not there to bother them, they will let you approach all the way to the nest.
Not in my experience. They will never outstrip their food and it's a crapshoot if they let you in the house
So I'm assuming that when they're nestled down to the center of my cabbage it's a wrap.. right?!? 😮
Is it toxic to humans? Or is washing the cabbage before consuming efficient enough?
The cabbage moth has moved on from brassicas in my garden and is are now attacking the squash, peas, carrots, radishes, just everything. In past years the wasps would keep the loopers under control, But the wasps are no where to be seen. It's so devastating. 😥😥😭
I’m facing the same problem. They started on my kohlrabi but moved on to peppers and carrots. It’s so annoying. I tried the soapy water trick, and it worked for a day. Then I tried diligence and picking off the stupid caterpillars but I couldn’t keep up. I’ll have to give this method a try.
I can’t remember if it was NextLevel or somewhere else that recommended this but you can inject straight BT into the center space stalk of squash above where it’s being attacked. BT will kill them but you have to catch them before they completely chew thru your squash plant. Don’t use syringes like are used for insulin. You’ll need a much larger gauge syringe. I tried the smaller syringes (DH is a diabetic). BT is too thick to pass thru the needle & the tips of the small gauges bend too easily. It saved the few squash plants I had left after figuring out what was attacking them.
The best way to grow these veggies is by covering the plants with netting immediately after planting. Never have worms again!
You should see me chasing those stupid moths around my yard with a net. I truly despise them.
I found a lot of these caterpillars on my plants as I brought them indoors for the winter. It was difficult to find them, but I knew there were no more on a specific plant when there was no more small round poop near it. I have put them in a plastic box with holes so they can breathe and fed them with cabbage from the supermarket. Some of them died, but at this time, one has become a moth (and passed away), and I set it free in my house 20-30 days ago. Other 2 are still caterpillars and 2 are turning into moths. The moth was pretty friendly, it did not fly away when I got near it and sometimes it would fly on my hand.
This morning I found the one moth dead in my bed, but it wasn't crushed. I researched on the internet and found out that they live 24-33 days. I just hope that the moth didn't lay eggs, because they are pretty annoying when your houseplants get destroyed by them.
I usually poison mealybugs and other pests, but I couldn't kill the caterpillars.
I brought Captain Jack neem oil before knowing of BT will the Neem Oil work or no?
I just ripped out a majority of my garden. There are hundreds of these bastards in every container. 😭😭😭😭
What about corn? Will this Monteray BT work on corn ear worms? Thank you
I love butterflies, so I would plant kale just for them!!!
Just bought some seeds today 😁
They sure love my brussel sprouts
My cucumbers leaves are so damaged, but The vines and flower blooms are healthy and plentiful. Should I cut off the damaged leaves and then treat with BT or leave them on and treat?
I grow these beautyfull creatures once. My husband brought me cavolo nero from our vegetable garden and I noticed those yellow eggs on a leaf.. I put the leaf in a glass vase and in a few als the firs5 caterpillars appeared, and now I am waiting for the first butterfly ❤! My grandchildren loved this home project. So, no, we don't kill them and certainly don't use poison or something like that. Here in Holland we had a plague of box tree moths, many people used something to kill them, but the small singing birds who eat them and feed them to their chicks were killed as well...😢
I love your videos- thank you so much for the information in them. I'm having serious issues with these little jerks right now, picking them off, using neem, and now I know how to find the eggs. But I have a question - when you have plants that are pretty "lacey" from this, but super young (8" tall) - how far is "too far gone" or if I maintain now, can they still grow out ok? Mine are just slightly worse than yours. (Definitely going to get BT today!!) Thank you again for the great help in ALL your videos - mega fan!
Yes I have that same question!
Could you do a video on Blight and Fungus my very first tomato plant got hit pretty hard and I can seem to find a good explanation on prevention or how to save a plant once this happens.
We used to use dawn dish soap mixes with water and spray them!
Does neem oil help? Cuz I already sprayed that 😅
Please do a video on how to grow cauliflower and cabbage
How often do you need to reapply?
Can you still eat the leaves of those plants if they have been sprayed ?
So this is me being a silly beginner gardener and thinking those 'butterflies ' are so pretty.. awww... 😡😡 now I hv caterpillars eating my stuff!!!!!
👆🏼This just happened to me last week.
I've got a old tennis racquet and tought my kid to get them with it 🎾🦋🐛👊
Exactly what I needed. Thank you!!! I hate these freaking worms
I have tried the B.t. and it does not seem to get them.
Should I spray this as prevention? I know that they will come. So i want to prevent it before it happens
is that Monterey B.t. organic?
How many MLs of BT did you use
I would love to see a video on leaf miner in the outside vegetable garden. 🙏😫😭
Can I use this product on my basil plants? they are being eaten alive by little worms
mine too! And my sage
I hope this works! I’m newer and I even bought netting and put it over and something else is eating the leaves. I don’t see a flood of the white moths anymore so not sure which it is leaving holes in my cabbage leaves especially. 😔😩
Probably slugs. I had the same problem.
Every single video I see about these shows people treating basically seedlings. I had no issues with these until my cabbages were solid and 6 to 8 inches large.
1:34 I'm cutting right now, so this will be useful!
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I so hope that you respond to this post. Both of those damn worms in your video have destroyed my precious Brussel sprouts and cabbage. Lime has had no effect. I tried captain jacks neem oil them and it totally killed them. I did not use more than necessary and everything has responded beautifully to this application without any strange side effects whatsoever. The question I have is now that everything is on a totally unbelievable rebound, how many of the chewed up leaves can I remove, or by doing so would this desire restunt my plants further. As they say, leave well enough alone.
1:03 worm!
Any tips for aphids? My marigolds are absolutely covered in aphids. I'm in Taiwan, and taiwan doesnt seel post control outside of stuff farmers are allowed to use. The best I can get is a "natural" mold and pest control spray that is doing practically nothing against the aphids.
I have tried the dish soap and water spray, and that seems to be helping better, but my marigolds are suffering badly 😭😭😭
I've heard you could try releasing ladybugs since they eat aphids. I have also used the soapy water trick and I read you should do it every 2 to 3 days until they are gone. Hope that helps.
@@brooksb13 ladybugs are expensive in Taiwan 😓😓😓 I've been seeing improvement with the soapy water though 🥰
1 tsp Neem oil
1liter water
1 tsp dishwasher soap
Mix and spray
I use it once a week to prevent....doesn't kill aphids but aphids won't like it.....
I really appreciate you repeatedly referring to them as stupid moths because I like to respect all nature and they're pretty and yadda yadda blah blah but when I see them I do accurately refer to them as those damn stupid moths... their rightful technical name.
Also, how often do I use this magical BT juice which kills these damn stupid moths?
Is this safe for animals? I have a pet rabbit that I feed some of our kale.
I don't understand how these moths are able to lay eggs under the leaves.
Is this a poison, a chemical? U didn't say if it's an organic spray. Tnx.
It is a naturally-occurring bacterium thus it's organic - extension.entm.purdue.edu/GM/PDF/GMquestions.pdf
@@epicgardening Thanks for that link. Very informative.
I am having this issue in southern Australia right now and losing all my kale plants. As its a home garden I have been picking the worms off and stepping on them, but its getting tedious doing a search every day. I didn't know that those white spots were eggs. I could have been squashing them too.
Thanks again, mate. Very helpful video.
I believe those “stupid” cabbage caterpillars are what show up on my beautiful geraniums 😢!
Is BT safe for bees?
I have my brassicas apart from my other plants in its own bed. I see it as they don't attract bees. By the time they would flower and have anything a bee would consider, your food would be picked and eaten anyways. There's tons of other things the bees will be busy with.
"I don't want them to live life anymore" lol
thanks for the video though
😂
That was my favorite part of the video also lol
Nothing like starving to death on your food source
Is that pesticide or something organic?
It is a bacillus. Monterey B.t. must be eaten by worms or caterpillars to be effective. After ingesting the insecticide, they immediately stop feeding, though they may otherwise appear to be unaffected for several days. Best results are obtained by treatments when worms are small; they must be actively feeding on treated, exposed foliage. You may apply Monterey B.t. up to and on the day of harvest. Apply Monterey B.t. when worms or caterpillars are first noticed. Apply more frequently to control heavy infestations. Apply thoroughly to top and bottom of foliage.
BT can trigger people who have sensitive immune response or mast cell activation. Been there 🤦🏼♀️
Ate up half my kale overnight
They murdered my garden once before, now they're back again 😭
Mine are netted😄....but the bastards have still mullered whole row!😬....I think they must be dropping their eggs from above,or where the leaves touch the netting.😬
Yes, the netting has to be 4-6 inches above the leaves so the netting won’t touch the leaves at all.
@@dawnkeckley7502 ...I've got an old polytunnel cage now completely netted!..hopefully perfect brassicas!
@@herbertabraham2174 - has it worked?
How many birds have been trapped in your brassica cage? Not being judgey, just a question as the reason I don't use nets is so many birds have met their end on our community plot inside netted beds, even when the nets are tightly pegged down.
@@carlduffin ..I've not had a problem...I've got raspberries in it as well and I tend it every day....no birds can get in...its zipped and cable tied all round.....absolutely no chance of a bird getting in and none have been tangled in it,I think now they know they can't get in so they focus on my apple trees instead!
These buggers love to hide right in the middle, where the youngest leaves are coming from…
That's all well and good until your plants get large and lean all over each other. Next year I'm going for row covers.
I think row covers are a good general use regardless - this is for after you get them!
MY CABBAGES!
In my garden, they eat EVERYTHING. I have no brassicas growing!!!
Who wants to establish cabbage spreader with that?
Or look for an alternative, that has not been modified.
I’m still traumatized by them 😂😂
They ravaged my bougainvillea, there goes the privacy hedge 😩
what is that
BT didn't work and was very expensive.
I just removed about 20 of these guys off of my peas...not a fan! 😆
I but them. I can’t stand them. Those moths are all over my garden!
Butterflies, not moths
Why do you gardeners hate me?
Lol. This stupid moth …. Lol. Love it
I prefer i like them to live just not live eating my plants. 😇
I see that butterfly i take care of it ❤ cause we like butterfly o still have it ❤
😮😮😮
And it smells terrible, so don’t spray your budz.
I might rather eat the damn worm then whatever the fuck your spraying on them.
They’ll lay eggs inside you until you have an entire family living and feeding off you internally
those stupid moths..... LOL
nooooooooooooo what are u doing??? not kill!!!!!#
Who kills cute worms