Re: Tomato (and pepper) Hornworms

On 2007-07-02, Teech <junk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Saturday, my tomato and pepper plants look great.  I check the garden
> mid-day Sunday and, HOLY COW, i'm missing 20% of my tomato foliage/
> stems...about 20 tomatoes have been munched on...and my sole hungarian
> pepper plant has every fruit on it munched and all but two leaves are
> missing.
>
> I spent 1/2 hour or so plucking and killing hornworms...about 15 of
> them.
>
> Any solution to this besides checking the plants every day?  How long
> do these things go on?  Checking online it looks like they might be
> around for a couple of months.  Some suggest parasitic wasps...but not
> sure how you go about managing those.  Another suggestion was "bt"?
>
> Help?
>

Sevin dust.

> --
> John
>


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