re: 2025 Spring Garden Thread

What is eating my broccoli leaves?
Whatever it is it’s destroying them.
I’ve sprayed neem oil, malathion, bifenthrin, and even sevendust. Doesn’t appear to be stopping whatever this is from eating the leaves.

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What is eating my broccoli leaves?

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Same. Getting destroyed over here and can never catch anything eating it.

I’ve been trying to inspect at night and don’t really see anything.
They destroyed my spinach about 3 weeks ago, but I wasn’t picking that anymore so didn’t care that much. But my broccoli is just about to start sprouting crowns and something is devouring the leaves.
Put some bifenthrin on it today. Hate using that b/c my cucumbers are right next to them and are starting to flower so don’t want to keep the bees away.

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What is eating my broccoli leaves?

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If the critters are the green worms that eat the leaves of cole plants, like broccoli, look at the underside of each of the leaves of your plants and that's where you'll likely find them. Many years ago, mostly during the 1970s through the1990s, when I was younger, I used to make a very large garden, and rather than using an insecticide, I found them that way and mashed them with my fingers.

that’s for transplants. No reason it wouldn’t work for vegetable transplants but I wouldn’t use it as an all year product

no idea but unless you have a 55 gallon drum of it, I’d mix up a batch for all your garden transplants then use something else later for it’s intended use