Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

The caterpillars come from moths laying eggs on your produce leaves.
The best thing is to check under the leaves daily for eggs and brush them off or wash them off with a hose.
Once they hatch (which it seems yours has), you are doing what can be done - pick them off and kill them.
Newborns are very tiny, but they do keep eating your plants and growing.
And the eggs keep hatching new little ones.
These caterpillars can grow very fat and large as they eat your produce.
Even as you fight them, there comes a time when they win the battle - too many eggs, too much damage.
If you don't want to use pesticides, the best thing next year is to cover your plants with "row covers" to prevent the moths from laying eggs.
I think we all have that problem every year.
Rita

From: Bryan Gliem
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:49 PM
To: garden@ yahoo mittleidermethod
Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] ok Gang, l need some help... lime green caterpiller worm ???

..something is eating my brocoli, califlower and lettuce leaves, small inch-long bright lime green caterpiller type worm... l dont know where they came from, whether or not they're eggborne or if they were in the soil l am using... what do l do, to rid em, and prevention from future attacks.... l picked my plants clean one day, and they're back the following day..... please help if you can........many thanks, Bryan

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