Growing Guides
Ground Beetles: Your Night-Shift Cutworm Patrol
By Paul Smith, pemdasgarden.com While you sleep, something patrols your garden beds. It hunts in the dark, covers serious ground, and eats the exact pests that destroy seedlings overnight. It...
Cutworms vs Slugs: Telling Night Damage Apart
By Paul Smith, pemdasgarden.com Something destroyed your seedlings overnight. The plants were fine yesterday evening. This morning they're wrecked. Two suspects top the list in almost every garden: cutworms and...
Cutworms on Tomato Seedlings: Protection & Control
By Paul Smith, pemdasgarden.com Of all the seedlings in the garden, cutworms seem to have a favorite. Tomatoes. There's a reason. Tomato seedling stems are thick, juicy, and tender —...
Cutworms on Pepper Seedlings: Protection & Control
By Paul Smith, pemdasgarden.com Tomatoes get all the cutworm attention. But ask experienced gardeners, and many will tell you peppers are the harder crop to protect. The reason is time....
Cutworms on Cabbage Seedlings: Protection & Con...
By Paul Smith, pemdasgarden.com Cabbage seedlings have a dangerous combination of traits: tender stems, a habit of going into the ground early in spring, and a long vulnerable stretch before...
Cutworms in the Garden: Identification, Damage ...
By Paul Smith, pemdasgarden.com Cutworms are the caterpillar larvae of noctuid moths that cut down young seedlings at the soil line, usually overnight. They feed after dark and hide in...