Lil Urban Farm

Day: May 18, 2025

  • Holes in Your Cabbage?

    Holes in Your Cabbage?

     If you start seeing holes in your cabbage-family items (including broccoli, kale, collards, etc), you’ve likely got cabbage worms.

    If you find holes in your cabbage leaves, it may be this cabbage worm causing the damage.

    There are a few different types of cabbage worms… cabbage loopers are green, but what I’ve got are cross-stripped cabbage worms. They turn into a brown moth and not the white cabbage butterfly we’ve come to associate with cabbage.

    Prevention includes hand picking them off, exclusion using an insect netting, or spraying Bt (an organic bacteria and not harmful not chemicals). 

    PRODUCTS SUGGESTED IN THIS VIDEO FOR PREVENTION:

    Little Urban Farm recommends Bt bacterium (bacillus thuringiensisi) for stopping garden caterpillars

    Bt Spray Bacterium
    (bacillus thuringiensis)

    Lil Urban Farm recommends garden mesh netting to stop bugs in the garden

    Garden Mesh Netting