Protect your brassicas 🥦 from cabbage moths (aka cabbage whites) and cabbageworms 🐛 by using a lightweight crop cover. Here’s what happens: the female cabbage moth lays tiny white eggs on the undersides of brassica leaves (E.G. kale, cabbage, broccoli, & cauliflower). These eggs then hatch into green caterpillars (aka cabbageworms) that create large holes in the leaves of your brassicas, leaving you with crop damage. Ideally, you want to start using a light-weight crop cover at the time of pla

1.9K views · 51 reactions | Noticed all the cabbage moths that have been dancing across your vegetable patch? Here are our top 3 ways to manage their population and keep your garden safe. 諾Net your crops to protect them from impending invasion 諾Plant a decoy crop over the other side of your garden to distract 諾 Spray with Dipel you can check it out in our in store or online #whitecabbagemoths #vegetablegardensuccess #dipel #pest #netting | The Diggers Club | Facebook

Keeping cabbage moths off my brassica 🥦 plants in the garden is my least favorite gardening chore. I try and handpick eggs and larvae any chance I get, but I’m hoping this new option will reduce that problem so I can spend more time focusing on garden tasks I actually enjoy! Another great option for eliminating egg laying is row cover, but with my intensive planting method it’s a little trickier when I don’t want to cover up everything else in the bed and lose out of potential beneficial pollin