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	How to Get rid of Cut Worms from your Garden

Cutworms are caterpillars living in the soil during winter and come back in spring to gorge on your immature young plants, prior to digging back into the soil and coming out as night-flying moths.

They can damage a crop totally in one night, if the invasion is extremely serious.

However you can take certain steps to eliminate them from your garden without having to use severe or poisonous chemicals. Start the removal program in mid summer.

Here are 7 methods to handle cut worms without the use of chemicals:

Till unplanted regions and garden paths in mid to late summer, to stop them from depositing eggs in the untouched soil.

Till all unplanted regions in fall and all regions while clearing the discolored plants at season's end. This renders any larvae to air and sun that can be fatal. It also inters the pupae very deep to "trap" them deep within the soil and stop them from coming to the surface in the subsequent spring.

Plant in spring once the weeds have grown a few inches. Till below spring-grown weeds and don’t seed or relocate the region for 7-10 days. This will waste away the pupae by destroying their food supply.

Keep a toothpick or big nail immediately adjacent to the stem, such that both of them are actually in contact. Cut worms surround the plant before sitting down to consume it. They will go away if an alien item like a toothpick or nail gets in their way, touching with the plant stem. Get rid of the alien object once the plant grows slightly and the stem becomes sturdier.

Tie a paper, cardboard or aluminum foil collar adjacent to stems. This is similar to the toothpick or nail method. Tie the collar surrounding the stem just 4 inches above the soil line and inter about 2 inches beneath the soil surface. You can also utilize an unfilled paper cup with the base hacked out by stringing the transplant via the paper cup prior to fixing it in the ground. It stops the cut worms from going towards the plant stem. After the plants grow up a little and aren't very young, you can then get rid of the collars.

Fix a ensnare crop of sunflowers; cut worms thrive on them. Fix them forming a circle around your garden. The cut worms will eat up the sunflowers and won’t harm your garden plants.

Burrow the soil surrounding the beheaded plants and physically kill them. It is a very potent method of removing cut worms. Examine around a one foot radius surrounding any plants affected by cut worm activity. This should be done first thing in the morning. Roll over any rocks or clods of soil and you'll come across the culprit. Eliminate and physically destroy by using your preferred method.

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