Help!! -- caterpillars!

[catkeeble]

Argh!

I've just been in my garden hugging and loving up my Veg and nooo!! There is a massive infestation of tiny green caterpillars eating up my veggies!! Ugh! They are on my Toms, Squash, Cucumber, Purple Sprouting and Cauliflower leaves (probably on much more but thats all I could see before I ran like to wind back to ask you guys for help!!)

Any ideas as to how to get rid please?

Thanks

[binley100]

Get some plastic gloves on and squish away...You don't need the gloves but they stop your fingers getting yucky)...or if you know someone with chooks stick em all in a bucket and feed to the chooks.

[catkeeble]

Hi thanks for your reply! So the best way is the painstaking way? Would you advise against any form of pest control or do they not work?

[Caro]

I tried an organic spray for foodcrops last year. The only way it worked on caterpillars was if I squooshed them off the plant with the spray ... then stomped on them.

[Davyburns]

I tried a bug spray from Wilkinsons called "Ultimate Bug Spray" or something very similar, and it seemed to work, but they eventually came back and I didnt want to spray my lettuce to many times, so it was squish squish again.

[ginger ninger]

I squish them or if there's only a few I feed them to the big spiders in my garden, make sure you have a good look under the leaf to see if there's any eggs and squish them as well...or all your hard work will be for nothing.
Happy squishing.

[Two_Sheds]

You need to grow brassicas under butterfly netting really