by Jeff Bentley | Sep 7, 2017 | Garden Pests & Diseases
Most vegetables gardeners tend to be a bit obsessed with garden pests. Discovering that our tender ministrations of vegetables from seed through seedling to hardy garden plant have all been for naught—because some marauding pests have eaten them as a midnight...
by Jeff Bentley | Aug 29, 2017 | Garden Pests & Diseases
In our last post, Natural Bug Repellents, we discussed the benefits and How To’s of making your own “natural” sprays to stop insect pests from attacking your garden plants—using other plants you’ve grown from seed. In this installment (third in the series), we discuss...
by Jeff Bentley | Aug 24, 2017 | Garden Pests & Diseases
In our first post in this series, we outlined various ways to get rid of garden insect pests without resorting to commercial chemical pesticides which can create more problems than they solve. Mother Nature, in her inimitable wisdom, has provided us with an ingenious...
by Jeff Bentley | Aug 10, 2017 | Garden Pests & Diseases
Do you hate bugs? You’re not alone. Most of us recall feeling similarly before we started working the earth; our outlook changed after learning, firsthand, how beneficial insects can be to our gardening efforts. For example, lady bugs, ground beetles, lacewings,...
