Tip of the Week — 5/20/08
Posted in Gardening Tips on May 20th, 2008 by Sonia Uyterhoeven – Be the first to commentCabbage Worms
Sonia Uyterhoeven is Gardener for Public Education at The New York Botanical Garden.
Cabbages make an excellent early season crop. Plant them in early to mid April and you will have a nice harvest by mid-June. Sometime in May you may see a pretty little white butterfly hovering around your cabbages, and shortly thereafter you will notice some holes appearing in your leaves until the beautiful, glaucous foliage looks more like Swiss cheese. You have cabbage worms. The easiest way to control this problem is to send your kids out and have them handpick the small green caterpillars (the culprits for all the holes).