Re: Herbs to kill catepillars eating my garden?

Here's what I would do for "cabbage worms" -

--Pick off as many as you can find/see (and if you see any eggs, scrape those off too)

--Take a few heads of garlic and about 1/2 cup of HOT cayenne powder and put it in a pot with a gallon or two of water (blenderize the garlic first, no need to remove the skins), then bring it to a boil and strain it...and then spray all around the ground at the base of the plants, up the stalks and on the underside of the leaves.

--After that, wrap "sticky tape" around the base of the plant (sticky side out) - then any crawling along the ground will get stuck trying to crawl up to the leaves.

Broccoli plants are VERY hardy, and many times the caterpillars won't do enough harm to kill the plant...but sometimes they do :(

Let us know what you do and how it turns out. Luckily, we've never had any of those pesky caterpillars on our cabbages, broccoli or cauliflower (which may be because we've got tons of froggies out here on the farm, and froggies love to munch caterpillars). YAY FROGGIES!