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Question by Linda: how to keep hornworm caterpillars off of tomato plant?
Darned thing ate my entire tomato plant. Is the plant salvageable? And what homemade recipe can be used to keep them away?
Thank you all so far in answering. What could I use to deter these things that is not poisonous?
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Answer by Paul in San Diego
When a tomato plant is ravaged by tomato worms, it usually isn’t worth salvaging (it’s also early enough in the season to get another established plant at a nursery). I have heard that using cornstarch powder on your plants will kill the worms. They apparently eat the starch and it suffocates them when it turns into a paste (from the moisture in the consumed leaves and fruit). The non-organic remedy is a pest control product called sevin dust. But, you have to wash the fruit and your hands well before eating them if you use sevin dust.
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This is terrible! It is the vegetables cultivation system of the next
generation. I am amazed to learn that I can harvest 15,000 tomatoes.
The only true way is pick them off and kill as you go they start out very small so look under each leaf and you can stop them Good Luck
Here’s an Idea…Plant your tomato’s in big pot, pot for flowers,or plastic barrel cut about 15″ high..use potting soil, and put the pot on a deck somewhere off the ground…Put the plant in spot where you frequent often…..
And you ask why……..You’ll check the plants daily…The soil is Sterile, no disease, but Hornworms don’t come from the ground, something flys them in, but as soon as they start eating you’ll see their black droppings on the deck.. And then you Hunt-em Down, i fixem with garden shears;)lol
Hornworms show up later in the season, for a short time, where
I live.
next growing season plant some marigolds between each plant and you will never have that problem again! it works