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 & DiseasesMy 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.…