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From: steveh@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hemminger)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: question: organic broccoli & garlic
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Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 11:24:18 EDT
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The bugs on your brocolli are almost certainly cabbage worms.  You can use
the safe organic pesticide B.T. (tradename Dipel) either as a powder or
as spray.  It is a bacteria which rots out the guts of the caterpillars.

Hand control by picking is possible, but diffcult to keep up with the pests.
If you look hard you might even find the eggs.  Also scratch back some soil
around the base of the plants and look for little white worms; cabbage root
fly maggots.

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