Last Saturday when I was cleaning up my garden I noticed my brussel sprouts were looking a little worse for wear, but I saw no signs of the dreaded aphids. So I just rinsed them off every morning this week like I'd been doing to everything else in the garden.
What I DID happen to notice this last week has been the daily white moth looking thing fluttering around my garden. I thought it was a good thing, killing off my aphids. Wrong. I'm still fighting my arch nemesis the aphid, but in addition, I'm fairly sure I have cabbage worms as well. Some of the images from the cabbage worm destruction look a little too familiar.
So I went out tonight in my pj's and dusted my cabbage and brussel sprouts with self rising flour.
I wonder if using chemicals would be harder or easier sometimes. Knowing I just went into my kitchen and potentially fixed a problem without adding anything harmful to what I'm eating is kind of cool....assuming it works. And I always wonder how long it will work...is this a every week "fix" or for a month?? Who knows!
I run a lot in neighborhoods now, and I always want to stop at a house with a big garden and look for their bugs. I wonder if I'm the only one struggling sometimes. Are they cheating and using something?? Or did I just not put the right amount of prevention into my garden before I started? Luck of the draw?? I guess on the bright side, I'm learning out how to deal with these regular pests early on. I should be a pro just about the time we sell this house and I have to start a new garden at another place. :)
P.S. So far, the hosing off trick for the aphids has not worked. They're still enjoying my veg.
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