I've an ALL organic garden...any suggestions to prevent those NASTY hornworms from eating my tomato plants?

If I see them, I knock them off and splatter them with a hoe.. no pesticides needed.

I've an ALL organic garden...any suggestions to prevent those NASTY hornworms from eating my tomato plants?
use this simple solution, about a tablespoon dish soap to a spraybottle of water, spray the plants well usually when the sun is starting to go down as to not burn the leaves while wet, it gets rid of all bugs and worms too.
Reply:I plant my tomato plant further apart and plant carrot rows on each side of the tomato plant rows, and haven't had any since.


Before I fixed my problem all i could do was wear gloves and pick those nasty things off my plants I would put them in a jar and take them out deep in the trees and let them go ( I couldn't kill the ugly little things)


I hope this helps you.
Reply:I haven't heard of using chili powder.... but I have used this recipe to keep alot of bugs off my plants for years....


Mix in a blender


1 hot pepper, (cayenne, haberano, jalepeno....whichever you can find....or use 3 tablespoons of hotsauce)


1 clove of garlic


2 cups of water


Blend til smooth


Strain into a spraybottle....fill bottle the rest of the way with water, and 3 drops of dishsoap....


shake before using each time.


I completely wet my plants down with this...organic, and no harm to plants...


The dishsoap helps make it stick....


I use it about once a week or so...or after each rain


controls many damaging bugs
Reply:well, i don't know how to get rid of the "worm"... but a moth like insect is what lays them, instead of trying to get rid of the worms try to get rid of the moth ... i heard that if you get one of those ant things (makes a ringing sound) the moths can't stand it, and they won't come near it ... of course, mine would be inside-ish ... so try to do it, if you can't maybe just get that powder stuff that. just just the tomatoes before you eat them ...
Reply:If the eggs are near your plants in the dirt and not already on them, then here is what has worked for me.


Crush up chicken egg shells into about quarter inch pieces, then spread them around the base of your plant and anywhere the plant might touch the ground. The horn worms, and for that matter most legless creatures, will avoid the shells because the surface does something to prevent them from slithering. However, sometimes they can go underneath and around the shells, so the more you put there the better.


When you do this, of course, you have to watch out and make sure you use organic eggs because they will eventually decompose and become part of the soil.
Reply:They sure are awful! I've found a couple this year also. I don't really know how to get rid of them except to pluck them off, but I do know how you can find them really easily, use a "black" light (really it's purple) and they will glow!!! Crazy. Goodluck

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