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3 postsSoft soap, beer traps, coffee grounds, tansy brew: an honest myth check showing which home remedies actually work, which ones just make work, and which are not permitted in a home or allotment garden at all.
Wormy plums are almost always the work of the plum moth. Once you understand its two generations and flight periods, you can cut the damage sharply with a pheromone trap, a trunk band and autumn hygiene, entirely without chemicals.
Cabbage has two main enemies: the cabbage white, whose caterpillars strip the leaves bare, and the unseen cabbage root fly, whose maggots destroy the roots. Here is how to keep both off without poison, with net, collar and a look under the leaves.
