Got Cutworms? Try These Methods! || Black Gumbo
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- Cutworms are one of the most frustrating garden pests. If you discover an infestation of cutworms, here are four different methods to overcome them. I'll show you how to treat your garden with BT organic insecticide, two exclusion methods, and a replacement method. Because I am dealing with cabbage cutworms, I have the opportunity to show you how I'm going to overcome them. Gardening is always fraught with pests, let's overcome and grow some food!
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I’ve also used the 3oz bathroom Dixie cups as well as the toilet paper rolls. With the cups, you just remove the bottom, cut down the side & wrap it around the base of the plant. The good thing about these methods is that the paper breaks down & disappears by the end of the season. Thx, Scott, you’re the BEST!!!
I've caught cutworms red handed REALLY early in the morning once. I was so mad. At the time, I couldn't figure out what was happening until I saw them and it all made sense.
I have found them as well... so now I check first thing every morning!!
@@Katydidit I happened to come out just as the sun was rising and they were hanging out on top of the soil.
I found them today on my young spinach ... With a 🔦 torch on wet night. I wrecked havoc on them 😄.
My dad grew up in Oklahoma and he tells stories of having to go out every morning to poke around in the soil to find the cutworms (he was the youngest!). I had cutworms get all of my english peas one year, and he told me I had planted them too early - that if I waited a bit the cutworms would all be gone. I've taken that advice, waited until it's just a bit warmer to plant, and haven't had any problems since.
That’s really good to know!
I’ve had cutworms! I’ve tried about everything except BT. What seems to work best is aluminum foil because I can get it right tight to the plant. If I do have damage, I dig down and kill the cutworm then replace the plant. This is the first garden video I’ve seen that addresses cutworms. Thank you.
I addd 2-3” of aluminum foil around the base of my beans after seeing a bunch cut off, and today I went out to find the rest of my plants cut. I’ll be out tonight to see if I can find any in the soil!
I have planted my plants with plastic forks upside down right next to the plant or i break some long wooden thick toothpicks and put them right up against the plant
The cutworms can't penetrate the thickness of the stem and the wood together or the plastic forks
Ellen
Florida Gardener, zone 9a
I’m going to start trying this!
If you see cut worm damage, that cutworm is still there. Just dig around the base of the plant with your finger to find them.
I have placed a small stick next to the plant and that keeps the cutworm from being able to climb up the plant. A very simple and natural way
Another thing to try - surround young plant stems with wooden matches with the head down in the soil. Pepper plants also like the additional sulfur. Good luck and Happy gardening.
Yup, had that heartbreak my first year gardening and I realized had to grow my plants indoors!
Phoebe always makes me smile!
Thanks for the info! I’ve experienced this in the garden. Now I know what happened and what to do.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Love Phoebe, hope her ears are better.
Cutworms are no fun! 😕
Love me some Phoebe moments!💖
Thanks Scott! We love your channel and advice, so much! God Bless!🌱🕊️
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I had a young tomato get cut down and I thought it was big enough to be safe. luckily they are in 5 gallon buckets. I just put my tomato bucket into another bucket and flooded it. That worm came right to the surface
I also keep BT on hand but I use the Benefical nematodes either once or twice a year. Since we have had so much rain it has brought out so many bugs, ugh. I too am doing replacements as needed
Love the video and family fun at the end of the video! Thank you for sharing with us 😃
Is 6" deep 8" across container enough to host a Lesya pepper plant?
Well, the pepper might get a bit big for that size, but if you fertilize well it might do OK.
I thought it was the 🐿…Thanks Scott❣️
I've found that if brassica seedlings r turning purple and have woody looking marks on stems, they often bolt and never produce. This is especially true in plants grown in small cell cell packs.
Hi Scott, I wil suggest to fillup the toiletpaperroll with vermerculite. It is sharp material (it works with snails) en air can flow. Greetings from Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Great idea!
@@ScottHead Yes I will think its helps a lot. They don't like it to shuffle to that material !
Oh I hear ya on this one! They’re on my green bean leaves pretty bad. They chew up one side and use that part of the leaf to fold over them like a blanket. It’s perfect to detect as I’m able to just smash all the folded over parts of the leaf and squish the worm. Even tho is not harmful I’m Not wanting to use BT as we are getting tons of beans at the moment.
Would the toilet paper collar work to protect from vine borers on squash plants?
went outside yesterday morning and found a bean seedling cut off and the leaves left on the ground. thought it was a rabbit or something but this morning found a corn seedling plant done the same way. Grrrrr
I got more seeds to replace them it just is frustrating haha
I’ve got a cut worm (?) crawling up a very established pepper plant and cutting of the tender bits including new buds… oh if only I could get my hands on it
Oh geez, I almost lost my intired peas. One thing about it. If you put a stick close to whatever you plant it should help.. Wood ash, I put it on the peas didn't work.
Phoebe knows HER people😅
2021 The year of pestilence
take 3 bamboo skewers and stick them around the plants as close as you can.
Not necessarily smaller stems. I’ve had them cut down relatively (still young transplants) large plants…about the size of your healthiest plants in this video. Like others said, you can find them buried in the soil around said plant. I’m also trying BT today because I have lost 4 plants in a matter of a few days and this is with spreading DE AND killing the cutworms that caused the damage…good ol Ohio I guess!
DE works too
Hi neighbor. I'm also near Ellington Field. I never got to start my fall garden, got sick with Covid. Is it too late? Let me know your thoughts. Love your grandson playing with Phoebe.
Probably not too late if you grow frost-tolerant plants. I find that brassicas and carrots manage our winters quite well.
I use to use milk jugs and cans
Cut the ends off
Your dog looks like a honey badger from a distance.
Oh no!!!
Never had cutworms, I start my seedlings in toilet paper rolls!
I was thinking tomato hornworms, but they are equally evil to the cutworms.
Yep. Discovered them in my flowerbed today. I completely removed all the plants. And there were so many of them. But many were curled up and grayish in color. So upset! Destroying all my plants my flowerbed. I don't want to use pesticide though. Any suggestions? 😌
Can they crawl into pots on a table next and rubbing day lilies leaves? Can they crawl from pot to pot? I'm using last years soil. Do you think it came from old soil?
I'm not sure how far they would travel but I think they would stay in a pot. It could have come from the recycled soil but once you get rid of the cutworm all is well, you can usually find them in the soil just under teh surface.
Found a cacoon 2 days, ago. Sort of identified it, kept it in a ziplock to positive id it, it came out today and was able to identify the moth as cutworm….. will take care of them, but only more explanation for not quite a good garden year…. Many soil problems too. Ph too high in every bed, and in every raised planter bed, potted plant, I have such low nitrogen that it doesn’t even show any signs on the home test. Any advice? Thank you
Alfalfa pellets will be a good source of clean nitrogen, spread them over your beds and let them boost the N.
i have also heard that you can use aluminum foil ... wrap a small around the base of the plant and it is suppose to deter them as well and painting on DE mixed with a small amount of water should also do the trick, noting you may have to repaint them after you water them, but if it works .. just take a small container of the paste with you when you transplant them out and paint the base at the same time .. i am thinking of mixing a small amount of DE with the soil at and around the base of each of my plants in hopes of deterring any of these pests
I was under the impression water made DE useless. Even morning dew…
@@logmaster27 hmmm .. well i hadnt tried it but was still curious if it would work because once it dried back out it would still have its form and its sharp edges to scrap the underbellies and dry the bug out, or so i was told it would work that way .. even using it to white wash the trunk of your trees is suppose to work .. i will have to try it out myself and see if it does work though next time before i suggest it lol
How long can they live in the soil? Until you starve them? Will they be there forever as lomg as they jave food to feed on? Thanks
Have a 6 1/2 foot pumpkin vine , flowered and has 3/4 pumpkins starting to show , had cut worms and trimmed off the affected vine and DESTROYED it however I noticed the main vine just where it exits the soil has a hole but the plant looks healthy . I used tin foil to wrap around the hole and buried the vine , any other tips , will my pumpkin survive from the vine roots ? Thanks !!
Also the worm was inside on the vine , are these even cutworms ?!?!
Thing is, if you put things around them - wouldn't they emerge from the soil inside the cup as as well?
IDK - my plants seem cutworm killed but these aren't 'tender' plants. I had some stems as thick as my pinky.
Also I had peppers put on my porch in 4" pots - killed the same way. Plants just cut 1-2" high as if someone came with pruners. That's weird to me.
Lost about 17 Peppers - not the kind you can buy at a nursery let alone Home Depot, etc.
ONLY the peppers - I have tomato seedlings - they don't want them?
I tend to find cutworm in the soil several inches from the plant. If the bed down near the setm then of course a barrier is useless.
@@ScottHead If it stops raining - I'll go out with a flashlight soon. I've not once experienced this in my life - which is weird. It's really thrown me! Super devastating. I must be infested with this.
@@ScottHead Sigh. Bought some replacement Jalapeños from Home Depot. Plants sitting in a formed flat to hold the pots. Put the flat on my deckbox off the driveway. Next morning 1 cut. Plant laying there.
I think this is an animal hell bent on randomly killing Peppers. IMO not a bunny either. WTH. Put flat in garage and sprayed everything with Liquid Fence.
Just want to know if the toilet paper tube worked or not?
When I finally discovered them on my spinach they were big and fat .i bought one into the light to identify it. Scooped it up using a peice of paper. It crawled over that paper with ease and surprising speed ... So that's why im wondering if the tube works
Worked out great!
@@ScottHead thanks. Awesome.am about to transplant my pak choy ..
What would you recommend for mealybugs?
I'd go with Neem oil spray first.
My mom used 2 or 3 toothpicks
Do you place it right next to the stalk of the plant?
Something is cutting down my thick egyptian spinach stalks.
I have had cut worms take out 3 of 7 of my baby bok choy... within days of planting, so sad!
I did not anticipate these guys so late in the season, or I would have been prepared. I always plant twice as many beans in the Spring because they are really voracious then! Missed seeing your son helping out. I pray all is well.
I found some cutworms in my compost. Is it safe to use still?
I’d risk it with additional protection to your plants.
Do the cutworms damage any plant or do they have a preference?
They prefer peppers in my experience, but I've seen them take down all kinds of young seedlings.
Im going through a cutworm problem and so far they've destroyed my tomatos, beans, brassicas, peppers, and ive even found them on my herbs 😡
I've had pepper and tomato seedlings destroyed by cutworms
Pestilence!!!
What ph does the plants you put the ashes around like?
Not sure, but its not enough to harm the overall pH long term.
Hello Charles !
Brassicas on the whole enjoy optimum growth in garden soil with an average ph of 6.5. Black Gumbo soil which Scott grows in has a ph level between 7.5 - 8.0. A higher ph level is especially good for growing aliums and night shades (potatoes, tomatoes & egg plants as examples). BG is probably one of the most difficult soils to garden in, and yet one of the most nutrient dense soils around.
Wood ash is an excellent and natural soil amendment which lowers ph gradually…you could also use garden lime to achieve the same effect. The “experts” recommend aiming for a soil ph between 6 & 6.5, which the gardening industry considers the “sweet spot”.
Cut worms are just one of the many pests that adore brassicas. Loopers, leaf miners and flea beetles also have a yen for brassicas too.
I finally gave up and gave in and now use insect cloth. I garden in Austin, Tx. zone 8B, and cloth no question is a pain and cumbersome. I uncover my plants in late November when insect pressure has finally abated. My grandfather used to wrap his veggie stems with tin foil as a way to fight off cut worms, whatever works.
I really enjoy Scott’s approach to gardening, especially his attitude and mind set.”low speed and no drag”. Gardening is never perfect and no matter how hard we plan, there’s always something unforeseen that happens..kind of like cut worms!! Scott doesn’t get riled and rolls with the punches, great way to keep your BP low and truly enjoy your garden.
I apologize for my “lengthy” response.
Stay Well !
@@scottwhite4645 From what I understand Ashes are like 9.5 ph. He put a goodly amount of ashes right over the roots and around the plants.
@Scott White. I thought garden lime raised ph rather than lower it?
Thanks for that great reply @Scott White. Very thorough.
What exactly is DE ?
Do cut worms attack beets too?
I have never had them on my beets!
Haven't had that happen but you never know.
Would diatomaceous earth work do you think?
It worked for me
Yeah, I mentioned it in the video near the end, but it also harms beneficial insects too, so I avoid it.
I feel for you my problem is ants ant and more ants if anyone has any suggestions please let me know zone 8b
I treat ants in my food gardens with orange oil. Works great.
scoop up some ants in a jar from one mound and use another jar to scoop up some from a different mound. Pour the ants out in the opposite mounds from where you gathered them. They will "war" and kill both mounds.
Do cut worm cut off older plants
Not usually. They attack the tender sprout.
How about using crushed egg shells ?
Might work.
Cut ants?
Not likely here, though not out of the question.