The key thing as with any pest is going to be prevention and companion planting works wonders for the tomato horn room, and it’ll be no shock to you that my favorite companion for tomatoes are the basil plants.Īny variety of basil does wonders to help repel the tomato horn worm. So unless you have a whole bunch of different tomatoes planted and you have plenty to feed them also, you’ll definitely be wanting to go about making sure to prevent these tomato horn worms from entering into your garden. And it does a lot of damage really quick, and you would be so surprised by how these huge caterpillars can blend right into the leaves. and it ate so much of the foliage and pretty much within a day, it was pretty devastated as you can see. And then this tomato horn came on and viciously started attacking it. So this poor Roma tomato that we have back here, it was thriving and doing absolutely incredible. So today I thought I would talk about a few key things that you can do to help both prevent the tomato horn worm, and then go about treating it. So I am out here by one of our tomatoes back here that got viciously attacked by a tomato horn worm.

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