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Category: Pests and Problems

Category: Pests and Problems

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March 11, 2012

Beneficial Bugs – Buy Ladybugs!

Ever wonder what to do about insect pests besides spray them to death? Ladybugs and Praying Mantises eat several times their own weight in garden pests in one day! Imagine having a really great pest control in your garden and never having to spray a single pesticide! Here’s a list of what they love to […]

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September 27, 2011

How to Get Rid of Powdery Mildew

Powdery mildew peaks in the fall when temperatures are cooler, the sun’s heat and light is more moderate and less direct, and humidity is still high. The amount of dew that forms during the fall is a lot more than in summer months due to the temperature crossing the dew point at a very low […]

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September 17, 2011

Water Your Garden To Protect It From Frost

Watering your garden when there might be a frost seems a little backward, but it will protect your plants. A healthy well-watered plant will do better than a weaker, drier plant will in cooler night time temperatures. You don’t want the plant to be wet, but you want the Earth to be nice and damp […]

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September 7, 2011

Frost…

So, the time has come to discuss the issue of frost and how we (in the North) are going to extend this season and try to get our tomatoes to ripen on the vine!! Last year I tried to create a greenhouse with greenhouse plastic, PVC pipe and packing tape around my entire garden. It […]

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August 24, 2011

Carrots + Raised Beds = LOVE

Everyone knows that carrots love sandy pliant soil. I have tried them for many years with good success in the germination and health of the plant factors, but not so good in the actual root being a nice long carrot factor. Carrots will turn and get knotty at the least resistance in the soil. You […]

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August 23, 2011

Hired a Gardener to help me WEED!

So after letting my vegetable garden get completely away from me I finally hired someone to come help me out. His name is John Beall (pronounced “bell”) and he did a wonderful job and was very fast as well. Very reasonably priced. We talked about gardening a bit and he had a lot of neat […]

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February 11, 2011

Spider Mites and Fruit Flies

So, I noticed a big difference when I used dirt from my garden to grow some of my indoor garden this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it wasn’t good. 🙁 I now highly recommend using only sterile, baged indoor potting soil for indoor gardens. Either that or you have to go through a process for preparing your soil to […]

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May 7, 2010

Beetle Problem Last Year

So last year I had a small (kind of) infestation of those metalic/green/copper beetles. I think the soil that my roses came in was harboring some larvae. I am thinking they may be back if there were enough eggs in the soil that over-wintered. If they do come back I am going to just pick […]

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Sara Murray
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May 7, 2010

Frost and Snow!!!

Welcome to Minnesota! We’ve already had an 80 degree day and what is in the forecast for the next two days?? Snow! For the past 2 nights it has been getting very close to 38/39 degrees Fahrenheit. I have 1 hanging flower pot and one standing that I have been bringing inside overnight just in […]

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March 17, 2010

Yellow Leaves?

So, the tomato plants have some yellow leaves on the bottom! That are falling off!!! The health of the over all plant is good though, so not a huge concern. Here is a picture: If a plant gets sunburned (which it can from indoor lighting as well as very hot direct sunlight) sometimes the first […]

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