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    Help!! -- caterpillars!

    Argh!

    I've just been in my garden hugging and loving up my Veg and nooo!! There is a massive infestation of tiny green caterpillars eating up my veggies!! Ugh! They are on my Toms, Squash, Cucumber, Purple Sprouting and Cauliflower leaves (probably on much more but thats all I could see before I ran like to wind back to ask you guys for help!!)

    Any ideas as to how to get rid please?

    Thanks
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    Get some plastic gloves on and squish away...You don't need the gloves but they stop your fingers getting yucky)...or if you know someone with chooks stick em all in a bucket and feed to the chooks.
    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

    You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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    • #3
      Hi thanks for your reply! So the best way is the painstaking way? Would you advise against any form of pest control or do they not work?

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      • #4
        I tried an organic spray for foodcrops last year. The only way it worked on caterpillars was if I squooshed them off the plant with the spray ... then stomped on them.
        Caro

        Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day

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        • #5
          I tried a bug spray from Wilkinsons called "Ultimate Bug Spray" or something very similar, and it seemed to work, but they eventually came back and I didnt want to spray my lettuce to many times, so it was squish squish again.

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          • #6
            I squish them or if there's only a few I feed them to the big spiders in my garden, make sure you have a good look under the leaf to see if there's any eggs and squish them as well...or all your hard work will be for nothing.
            Happy squishing.

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            • #7
              You need to grow brassicas under butterfly netting really
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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