Tomato Invaders have Arrived
I've been very light handed with the organic bug spray on the vegetable garden, and now I'm paying the price for it. The tomato invaders have arrived. 
As I was watering the tomato plants and getting ready to stake them out some support to hold their heavy boughs, I spotted a plump green caterpillar on the top soil. I checked my one little green tomato and something was poking its little brown caterpillar head (or bottom??) out. 
Dang. I plucked the plump Caterpillar from the ground and then plucked my little tomato from the vine. Looking through the green leaves I found another little green caterpillar, got the spray out and doused the plants but good. Take that tomato invaders.
As I was watering the tomato plants and getting ready to stake them out some support to hold their heavy boughs, I spotted a plump green caterpillar on the top soil. I checked my one little green tomato and something was poking its little brown caterpillar head (or bottom??) out. 
Dang. I plucked the plump Caterpillar from the ground and then plucked my little tomato from the vine. Looking through the green leaves I found another little green caterpillar, got the spray out and doused the plants but good. Take that tomato invaders.
2 comments:
If you want to be organic and target only the caterpillars, try a BT powder like Dipel Dust.
It will not hurt bees, ladybugs or other friends, but will stop any worm.
Just remember that butterflies start out as caterpillars too!
Thanks Jessica. When I could I would just pick the caterpillars off the plant and place them somewhere else. We really didn't have that much of a problem and only lost maybe a couple of tomatoes to them. The organic spay I found seemed to be a repellent more than a killer. It had a very distinct peppery smell.
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