#cabbage worm

[ashafox]

My wonderful garden and the TERRORISTS that CONSUME IT

[danskjavlarna]

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Some especially lovely butterflies and butterfly people are collected here.

[spreadcasts]

Cabbages under cover. Protect brassicas from cabbage worm damage and late frosts with floating row covers. May 2018.

[yeetmeoffearth]

July 30

Yesterday I was looking at the broccoli and a lot of the leaves were completely eaten. I stopped inspecting them as soon as I saw green bugs

Google says they are cabbage worms (why is it called a worm if it's a caterpillar) and I didnt want to kill them so I just cut the broccoli from the stem

This morning a worm was on the fork I keep in the pot like NOPE NOPE NOPE

[theinadvertentgardener]

Sit with your plants

It's so refreshing to just sit in the garden—I especially enjoy doing this on work breaks. It's important too, to check—really survey—the garden. Pests are always trying to pull fast ones on you.

I absolutely would not be growing cabbage, lettuce, Brussels sprouts, squash, or broccoli if I weren't working from home and able to keep a close eye on things. So I guess that's a point in the coronavirus column?

Well, that took off

I planted this broccoli in a pot with mostly not awesome soil pretty much as an afterthought, and it's ginormous compared to the broccoli I planted with intent (and ample space) in the raised bed. Huh.

Other fun stuff:

I'm just letting this volunteer calendula battle it out in this brutal, cinder block cage fight.

Peas are just beautiful. I almost always don't have my shit together enough to do any cool weather crops, so I am so totally pleased with myself this year.

[explodinggirl]

Pest control in the rain.

[peonyandbee]

Checked on the cabbages this morning.  My husband has been asking me regularly if they’re ready to eat.  I’ve noticed some holes chewed through here and there, and I’ve been plucking cabbage worms off whenever I see them.  But this morning, when I opened up the leaves a bit to see how far along we are in the growth process, my heart sank a little.  Earwigs.  God I hate earwigs.  I came into the house and delivered the bad news.  Warned him that while we can still eat it (after a good washing), it’s not going to look very pretty.  He said, and I quote, “Honey, *most* of the food I ate growing up looked just like that.  I’m okay with it.”  His dad is an organic farmer...I don’t know why I’d assumed his cabbage would have looked any other way.

I married the right man.

[town-n-country-garden]

Cabbage Is Not A Dirty Word - It's Wunderbar

Cabbage Is Not A Dirty Word – It’s Wunderbar

OK, OK, you can stop making that ugly face. Properly prepared, cabbage taste good and is good for you. The secret mama never told you is, Do Not over cook your cabbage. Sliced / diced in slaw or in a fresh garden salad. Wilt your sliced cabbage in a covered pan with 3 or 4 slices of diced and fried bacon, drain off excess bacon fat. Again I say, Bacon fat is not a dirty word! Don’t over cook…

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