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Cabbage family plants are plagued not only with cabbage worms (the caterpillar of the delicate white cabbage butterfly) but also by cabbage maggots, the grubs of tiny flies that attack the roots of affected plants. You can recognize their ravages by the presence of sickly, off-color roots, or yellowing leaves that take on a purplish-red tinge on warm days. To get rid of cabbage maggots, mix a cup of lime (the kind that comes from rocks, not trees) into a quart of water and allow it to sit overnight. Pour the solution around the roots of each affected plant, and it will kill the maggots on contact.

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