You see this cabbage? It’s not supposed to look like that. It looks like somebody shot it with a machine gun.
This is cabbage worm. It’s having a nice feast on this cabbage plant.
One of the great solutions to cabbage worms, army worms, other leaf-eating insects in your garden, is to use a common product called Sevin. This happens to be a dust form. It’s a 5% dust.
It’s real simple; you pop the top off and you just sprinkle it on, almost like snow, on the surface of your leaves.
You just wanna make sure you get a little bit on each leaf. You don’t necessarily have to worry about front/back.
The insects will crawl around on the leaves and they’re gonna get into this dust, and that’s gonna take care of the insect. It’s pretty harmless for people. It’s a 5% concentration. It’s naphthyl methylcarbanate, which is actually pretty inert for human beings.
It’s pretty harmful for insects, but for us, it’s pretty safe. Matter of fact, the label says you can use this up until a day before harvest. It’s really pretty safe stuff.
You should really only try to use it, depending on the crop, between four and seven times a year, however.
Pick the time; the first time you start to see some damage on your cabbage, you wanna get out there and get after it right away.
This one, I kinda missed the boat. I was on vacation last week. I should’ve done the application last week. The cabbage worm has really wreaked some havoc while I’ve been gone last week.
You shouldn’t wait till it looks this bad. Get it a little bit earlier.
Sprinkle the surface, and you’d be surprised. By tomorrow, you won’t be able to find any additional cabbage worm damage on this plant. It takes care of them fairly quickly.
Get yourself some Sevin dust. Dust the top of those plants. Works on anything that has a leaf that’s sort of a lush leaf. Things like in the cabbage family, kohlrabi, cauliflower, broccoli, anything that has a large leaf surface like that.
If you start to see little holes in it, it’s probably a leaf-eating insect, and this will take care of it. Get some Sevin dust, apply it, and it should work for you.