I pulled up my huge dill plant that was adjacent to my tomato plants. At that point, I had had NO ONE eating my tomato plants. within 2 weeks my tomato plants, vines, and leaves were being ravaged. Today while watering, I found a huge horned tomato worm on a tomato stalk right where the damage has been done. Can't imagine how I saw it because it is so perfectly camouflaged on the stalk of the tomato plant. Now I've got this one and looking for others. Can't bring myself to kill one, but at least I can throw it down into the woods. Here's the irony of this. The net shows that dill plants are good for keeping down horned tomato worms ! I should have left the dill plant, but I jus wasn't using the dill. I'll know next year
I pulled up my huge dill plant that was adjacent to my tomato plants. At that point, I had had NO ONE eating my tomato plants. within 2 weeks my tomato plants, vines, and leaves were being ravaged. Today while watering, I found a huge horned tomato worm on a tomato stalk right where the damage has been done. Can't imagine how I saw it because it is so perfectly camouflaged on the stalk of the tomato plant. Now I've got this one and looking for others. Can't bring myself to kill one, but at least I can throw it down into the woods. Here's the irony of this. The net shows that dill plants are good for keeping down horned tomato worms ! I should have left the dill plant, but I jus wasn't using the dill. I'll know next year