Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hey Jeff,
I never got to to the part of having emerging heads sorry to say. :-/ Our rainy weather kept me out of the garden and the worms/caterpillars were dining without care. When weather permitted I used diatamaceous earth and then dipel dust(Bt-kurstaki) but within a few days here came the rains. I read that diatamaceous earth is not honeybee friendly but thankfully I had used it on my cabbage only (no flowers there.)
I was watching a youtube video about preventing cabbage worms in the first place and I'm going to try it in the spring. You use wire fence or the reinforcing wire and bend it into a tunnel shape to cover your plants. Cover that with bird netting and supposedly the cabbage moths can't get in to lay eggs in the first place. You don't have to worry about getting too hot such as covering with row cover and the rain can get in and you can add fertilizer or slug deterrent (I like sluggo - pet safe) I do have a small garden (raised beds) so this is do-able for me. Now I've got to figure out what to do about the Mexican Bean Beetle. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks, Barb
ps O and would you believe a few of my jalapenos had something chew into them??? What kind of bug would be eating a jalapeno...lol???

--- In Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Strong <jeff_faithwalker@...> wrote:
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> Hi Barb and welcome to the Family. Say on your cabbage worm problem. Try
> slipping the emerging heads into the foot of a cheap nylon stocking. You can get
> them at the Dollar store. And the Jalapenos ground up and boiled and strained
> make a great spray against bugs and critters attacking other produce.
> jeff

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