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Originally Posted by lakelady
Last summer I did take one bed of tomatoes and use an inorganic fertilizer and compared to the other plants. The inorganic was almost wiped out by those ugly army worms, but for some reason, they left the other two beds alone . While not an official study of any kind , it did have me wondering why the regular fertilized plants were so attractive to them.
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I read a study several years ago on corn, I don't remember if it was field corn or sweet corn, but it did give the same results. Organic crops were more resistant to army corn worms. the synthetic fertilized crops had much more damage. I don't remember the exact scientific reason, but it had something to do with the rapid soft growth from the nitrogen. Maybe there was more sugar in the plant than in the organic "slower" crop.