Cabbage worms in compost?
I harvested some cabbage today and found a few green worms (I am guessing that they are cabbage worms). Would it be foolish to put the outer, unused leaves in my compost pile? Would that just infiltrate my pile with worms? I even wondered if I rinse them or dry them separately first if that would make a difference?
There *are* gardeners who are very laissez-faire about creatures in their compost. "In compost, good; in garden, bad" kind of thing, you know...
I'm not quite into that camp. If I so much as see an earwig outside the confines of the BioStack bin, that earwig is history.
I'm sure I would feel much the same way about cabbage worms that I feel about earwigs; I spent a lot of time hand-picking cabbage worms last October.
Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9
I'm not quite into that camp. If I so much as see an earwig outside the confines of the BioStack bin, that earwig is history.
I'm sure I would feel much the same way about cabbage worms that I feel about earwigs; I spent a lot of time hand-picking cabbage worms last October.
Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9
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