How can I keep cut worms away from my tomato plants?

I don't have any yet, but I want to do something to make sure they don't mess with my tomato plants, so that if they do come they will have to leave, any suggestions?

How can I keep cut worms away from my tomato plants?
I've heard about planting marigolds to keep pests away from you plant due to the smell - but I've never tried it myself. Wouldn't hurt to try, besides they will dress up your garden for a small cost.


I always wrapped the stems of my tomatoe plants with newspaper when I planted them - making sure the paper is both in and out of the dirt since cut worms do their work on the ground level. Paper doesn't have go be very big - just enough to protect the plant at ground level.


Hope this helps - some of the other suggestions may help you better if you have had your plants in the ground very long. Although it wouldn't take much to put the newspaper on now.


Hope you gets lots of tomatoes. Nothing tastes like homegrown.
Reply:There are so many hints on the web for tomato plants....


I agree w/ the soapy water though....


But seriously: natural home remedies for your garden-then clik-SEARCH!!
Reply:cutworm collars can be made by using stiff paper, milk cartons, aluminum foil or even carefully cut tin cans. Place the cutworm collars firmly in the soil around the base of the tomato plant and make sure the cutworm collars are at least 2 inches high. This should help prevent cutworms from climbing tomato plants and causing damage to the tomato plants and other susceptible plants in the garden.


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Reply:1.cut toilet paper (empty rolls) into about 3 rings. Open one side and wrap with foil put around tomato plant.


2. open both ends of tuna can if plant is still small pass root thru hole then plant.


3. Grandpas way


take 4 -10 penny nails insert around base of plant close to stem and the cutworm can't get a grip.


I always do it this way..........never had a cut worm.
Reply:i had luck planting marigold flowers in the same bed with my tomatoes the bugs don't like the smell that the marigolds produce didn't have any bugs nor had to use any pesticides on my plants last year
Reply:thats an easy one. Cut worms only attack young plants. Not mature ones.. Make a collar for them .. You can use any thing to do this.. I used styrofoam coffee cups with the bottom removed. Push them about an inch in the ground with the tomato plant in the middle. You can leave it there untill you pull the plant up in the fall or remove it after the plant is about 12 inches or more tall.. I leave mine all summer. Any thing that forms a barrier will stop the cut worms.. Even the center of a toilet paper roll or just strips of cardboard formed in a circle to protect the bottom of the young plant...
Reply:put some beer in a lid or cup and set it next to the plant...good for pest like worms!
Reply:My grandmother use too dust hers with wood ashes seemed to work but there is also some spray chemicals that can be used.
Reply:cut worm killer.
Reply:Collars made of thick waxed paper, like that which comes from milk cartons. Back in my "old" days, we used a tar-saturated roofing paper but today that would be taboo because of the creosote. I don't know how much creosote that paper emitted but you can get the same effect by using thick newspaper as well, or so I've been told.
Reply:they'll come no matter what. the best treatment is a soapy water mix in a spray bottle. spray all sides of the leaves at least once a day and pick off any bugs you see.