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To: greeneyes

Pretty much killed off a strong tomato plant by adding some seeds to the soil from a fresh tomato.

i think that was a no-no. Not looking like he’s gonna regrown branches and leaves. Well, I’m giving him a chance.

Looks like some green tomato-corn worm(?) dead on a leaf of one on my pepper plants - being eaten by white egg-looking things - supposedly they grow to eat other bugs. Dunno.....

Already have harvested at least 27 tomatoes from my Bush Early Girl (Walmart). She has at least 30 more on her (I took one). They’re small, but they keep coming. I’ll get some bigger tomatoes off some other plants - I think. There’s about 3 going.

So far largest peppers I’ve grown - but very, very few.

Everything is jammed so close (too close) together.

Really got rained on a couple nights ago. Got some cherry tomatoes and California Peppers (small) in the garage - they can’t handle the heat....cooling off though - about 10-12 degrees.


34 posted on 07/29/2017 12:20:13 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 21:36 KJV Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all...)
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To: SaveFerris
SaveFerris :" Looks like some green tomato-corn worm(?) dead on a leaf of one on my pepper plants
- being eaten by white egg-looking things - supposedly they grow to eat other bugs. Dunno...."

There is a parasitic wasp that lays eggs on the tomato hornworm
the hornworm feeds the wasp larva and continues with another successive generation which will feed off the hornworm.
Consider those little white larva feeding on the hornworm as future insect control for this fall and into next year.

36 posted on 07/29/2017 4:34:02 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (The Fourth Estate has become Fifth column !)
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To: SaveFerris

being eaten by white egg-looking thing


Probably a tomato hornworm. They are a big ugly green caterpillar. Wasps lay eggs on them—look sort of like white rice...They eat them.


123 posted on 07/29/2017 11:49:23 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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