How to Kill Cabbage Worms In The Garden

Published: Sept. 4, 2017, 11 a.m.

You’re starting to find holes in the leaves of your kale, and for that matter, in your cabbage, brussels sprouts, or other brassica-family plants. The leaves of the neat rows of radishes you’ve planted are showing signs of chewing, too. Some leaves have little off-white or yellowish spots on their undersides. And you just saw a little green worm wandering over a leaf on your produce.

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you probably have cabbage worms (Pieris rapae or Pieris brassicae).

Learn More: Cabbage Worms: Everything You Need To Know About the Pieris Species

Keep Growing,

Kevin