Cabbage White (Pieris rapae):
Wings of Change butterfly of the month May 2023
Learn
The Cabbage White Butterfly is a friend, not a foe. It is one of the most common butterflies and helps with pollination of our vegetable crops. With them near your vegetable garden you are sure to have lots of pollination! The Cabbage White butterfly will have multiple broods per year, depending on the geographical area and temperatures.
Grow
The Cabbage White butterfly begins its life in its egg form, which is typically laid on the leaves of plants like cabbage, and broccoli. Nasturtium is a “TRAP CROP” that can be planted with your cabbage. It adds a moisture barrier, and the bugs like it better than cabbage!
Nasturtiums are from the Brassicaceae family and provide great cut flowers. It is an attractive, edible plant that tastes peppery or a little like mustard. It can be grown in the ground or in a pot. This plant is drought-tolerant and reseeds itself.
If planted in the ground, it is great near vegetables like tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, pumpkins and kale. Nasturtium is a hearty plant that attracts pests like aphids, white fly and snails so that it takes the heat off all your lovely vegetables, since they prefer this plant a lot more. Also, when this plant mulches, it provides the things your vegetable bed needs like calcium, nitrogen, potassium and more. Would be excellent beneath soft fruit trees.
Planting Nasturtium will benefit your soil, inhibit weeds, and add beauty to the earth.
We have 3 kinds of Nasturtium for sale this month.
Alaska Multicolor Nasturtium with Marbled Leaves: This seed packet includes a multicolor mix with marbled leaves.
Scarlet Nasturtium has red blooms!
Multicolor Nasturtium Mix provides a range of blooms from ivory to tangerine and orange-red.
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At the end of the day, we need these “pests.” They help make more food and feed the other critters like birds, frogs and lizards.