[Ag-eq] Have I found a harmless deterrent that will keep the little buggers away?

[Tracy Carcione]

Thanks Jewel.  I'll have to try this myself.  Do you also drink tea?  Maybe
used tea leaves would have a similar effect?  Though they're not as strong
as coffee.

I have a very fine net to put over cabbage-type plants that's supposed to
stop cabbage moths.  Sadly, I've never used it, since Monsieur Possum has
munched my plants to the ground before they were big enough for the worms to
get interested.
Tracy


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Subject: [Ag-eq] Have I found a harmless deterrent that will keep the little
buggers away?

My cabbage and cauliflower plants have been taking a real hammering from the
cabbage white butterfly.  I have sufficient bother getting them to grow in
the first place, , and when I am successful, a rather too rare event, along
comes the flying white menace, and I might as well have saved myself the
trouble;  however,  I may have found an organic  deterrent:  coffee grounds!
It is only recently that I have started drinking coffee made with ground
beans, and being one who finds  throwing anything organic out, highly
offensive, I have been keeping all my used grounds and, having heard that
adding coffee beans to compost is a very good thing, I wondered if they
might have other uses in the garden, so, to this end and  as an experiment,
I have been keeping all my used grounds with added water, and have been
watering the cabbage plants with it.
They have made a wonderful recovery.
I have no doubt that the caulies would also, but unfortunately, I am a very
moderate coffee drinker, so don't have enough residue for them as well.

          Jewel 


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