Crazy Horse
Well-known Member
The cut worms really hammered us this year ..... even after reseeding and up here, you can only do that once if you're lucky with the short growing season. Carrots survived (sometimes they've got hit in the past) but this year it was the chard and the beets .... not much there at all, they just seem to wipe a whole row out almost overnight when the young tender seedlings are tiny and just coming out of the ground. Years back, a friend told me to put coal ashes in the rows when I seeded, it seemed to work it didn't do a thing this year. I've never tried any chemical control. Not sure if those cut worms are in the soil already come spring time or if the butterflies lay those eggs during the current season. Anybody in the YT group have any advice I might try next year?