Of all the pests that plague gardens throughout the season, aphids are among the most destructive, overwhelming, and frustrating. They seem to multiply overnight and can quickly invade a garden, leaving you…
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Garden of Eatin', Pests & Diseases
Organic Pest Control 101: How to Get Rid of Fig Beetles Naturally
I like to call them the “bumbling pilots of the garden,” and every summer, those loud, buzzy, clumsy fig beetles are quite an amusing sight to see. If they’re not, ahem, getting…
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After a particularly rainy and dismal spring, followed by May Gray (the sometime predecessor of California’s coastal June Gloom), a small patch of my garlic plants started developing white and yellowish-orange flecks…
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I recently moved a number of outdoor plants inside my house for the winter, and all have been doing well for the last few weeks until this week… when I found a…
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Garden of Eatin', Pests & Diseases
My Favorite Fences to Keep Out Critters, Caterpillars, and Birds (No DIY Needed)
Confession: I never knew how many animals roamed the night until I moved into a house with a yard that was a veritable buffet for said animals. Raccoons, opossums, skunks, even coyotes…
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It’s a sight that every seed starter dreads: a seemingly healthy seedling, perhaps even the first to sprout, suddenly slumped over the next week with a wizened stem. You may have even…
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I don’t know if our backyard has become a breeding ground for opossums or what. A couple months ago, we found a baby opossum in the chicken coop. We think he’s an…
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I had a visitor in the garden yesterday. Or rather, my chickens had a visitor… in their coop, nestled deep in a corner with just a small tuft of fur sticking out.…
