Getting Rid of Cutworms Organically

After losing 6 peppers and 2 tomatoes in two weeks, we finally figured out that cutworms were destroying our plants.  We tried mulching the plants with chopped leaves and 6 month old... we tried spraying a homemade insecticide we made of dishsoap and water on our plants, then rinsing it off, I purchased a chemical insecticide to see what inredients were in it...then returned it without using... still kept losing somemore....eventually, we figured out we had cutworms.  Cutworms are gray worms that come out at night and cut the plant just above ground level. They attack new plants in May and June.  To get rid of them you can go out and hand pick them off the plant at night.  Or you can do what we did and cut some old tubing that has been laying around the island, use a tin can or make a paper plate funnel to put around the bottom of the plants and into the ground a bit.  We'll see how that works.