baymule
Garden Master
Help!
For the first time ever we are invades by nasty worms on our tomatoes and I don't mean the green horn worms, those are easy to spot and pick off. We have worms that are eating the foliage and sneaking into the bottom of the tomato. The tomato starts showing color and we pick it to keep the birds and squirrels from getting it and we get a handfull of rotten goosh with a brown worm in it. (Shudder)
It just creeps me out. So strange, I can clean a gut shot deer, but a handfull of worm icky tomato and I want to run for the hills. 
I have never seen these before. I friend of mine said her Dad's tomato plants are 6 feet tall, loaded with tomatoes and worms are eating the bottom out. He hasn't got a single one.......neither have we. 
Her Dad said they are web worms, but I think web worms are fuzzy and these worm invaders are not fuzzy. He is in San Jancinto county, so it sounds like these &^$%#@$ worms are not confined to my garden.
We are located in southeast Texas and do not use chemical poisons. Is there anybody out there that is having this same problem? These worms are on some land we have a few miles from our house and they have stripped the leaves off the poke salad plants. I didn't think anything ate poke.
Well, I do. 
They have attacked the leaves on the okra and squash as well. They haven't got to the cucumbers or pepper plants......maybe saving those for desert?? 
The worms start out black like a miniature caltalpa worm, they have light yellowish "racing stripes" on their sides. As they get bigger, they turn brown and make tunnels in our tomatoes. I got a recipe for voo-doo juice from a friend and made it and sprayed it on the garden 2 days ago. It just rained and washed it all off. It is made with a pouch of chewing tobacco, 1/4 cup liquid dish washing soap, 1/4 cup tobasco pepper sauce, and crushed pods of garlic. Steep the tobacco and crushed garlin in one gallon of boiling hot water, add soap and tabasco and enough water to fill up a 2 gallon sprayer. I am going to make some more and re-apply. Has anyone ever used tobacco repellent and does it really work?
Is anybody else battling these worm invaders? And what are you doing to get rid of them? (besides the brick method......lay worm on brick and smush with another brick)
For the first time ever we are invades by nasty worms on our tomatoes and I don't mean the green horn worms, those are easy to spot and pick off. We have worms that are eating the foliage and sneaking into the bottom of the tomato. The tomato starts showing color and we pick it to keep the birds and squirrels from getting it and we get a handfull of rotten goosh with a brown worm in it. (Shudder)
It just creeps me out. So strange, I can clean a gut shot deer, but a handfull of worm icky tomato and I want to run for the hills. I have never seen these before. I friend of mine said her Dad's tomato plants are 6 feet tall, loaded with tomatoes and worms are eating the bottom out. He hasn't got a single one.......neither have we. Her Dad said they are web worms, but I think web worms are fuzzy and these worm invaders are not fuzzy. He is in San Jancinto county, so it sounds like these &^$%#@$ worms are not confined to my garden. We are located in southeast Texas and do not use chemical poisons. Is there anybody out there that is having this same problem? These worms are on some land we have a few miles from our house and they have stripped the leaves off the poke salad plants. I didn't think anything ate poke.
Well, I do. They have attacked the leaves on the okra and squash as well. They haven't got to the cucumbers or pepper plants......maybe saving those for desert?? The worms start out black like a miniature caltalpa worm, they have light yellowish "racing stripes" on their sides. As they get bigger, they turn brown and make tunnels in our tomatoes. I got a recipe for voo-doo juice from a friend and made it and sprayed it on the garden 2 days ago. It just rained and washed it all off. It is made with a pouch of chewing tobacco, 1/4 cup liquid dish washing soap, 1/4 cup tobasco pepper sauce, and crushed pods of garlic. Steep the tobacco and crushed garlin in one gallon of boiling hot water, add soap and tabasco and enough water to fill up a 2 gallon sprayer. I am going to make some more and re-apply. Has anyone ever used tobacco repellent and does it really work?
Is anybody else battling these worm invaders? And what are you doing to get rid of them? (besides the brick method......lay worm on brick and smush with another brick)
Worms, you know this means WAR!!!
