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[greyarea]

Gah, these bloody caterpillars are seriously testing my kill-no-animals vegetarian resolve. They are absolutely massacring my cabbages, most of which have leaves that are more hole than leaf now. Bloody things

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[friend_of_tofu]

Argh, I so feel your pain!

Have you tried putting fine-mesh net curtains over the cabbs? I've had a little bit of success with that. several people have recommended coffee grounds to me re: molluscs (may work for crawling caterpillars) , but they will make the soil slightly more acidic, don't know if that's good.

I don't eat enough eggs to use the eggshells technique!

I've started collecting the critters in a bucket and taking it away every couple of days to dump in the field next to the station, so the little buggers can't find their way back. Only trouble, I keep forgetting and worrying I'll kill the snails through starvation and boredom!

[nicnac]

I have to admit that we have completely lost patience and Jim now has at them with a badminton racquet. It has been decided that we won't grow brassicas again because it's just too much trauma.

[kittenexploring]

I've solved this problem by having everything already bitten back to ground level by grazing wallabies. Caterpillars and snails aren't a problem now.