Sentences with phrase «of cutworms»
Control: Tilling disturbs the overwintering places of the cutworm.
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Because most of the plant is not eaten, these cutworms do an amazing amount of damage, attacking and felling new plants nightly, like they did to two of my chile plants this week.
St. Capsicum, the patron saint of chile addicts, once wrote in a sermon that «every cutworm must grovel in the mud of the ditch before it climbs atop a row and gnaws down a pepper seedling.»
Most of the time grubs are common cutworms that attack only pepper seedlings and chop them down at the base.
Nematodes have no adverse affect on anything but the pest, and they have the side benefit of helping in the garden against cutworms and grubs.