Pests and Disease - Page 26 of 34 - Fine Gardening
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DesignLearn to Grow Bold, Beautiful Baptisia
Long-lived, low-maintenance wild indigos make a big splash in perennial borders
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DesignLilacs: Time for a Fresh Look
Now you can be choosy about fragrance, shape, hue, and flowering time
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ArticleBrewing Compost Tea
Tap your compost pile to make a potion that both fertilizes and prevents disease
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How-ToDealing with Thrips Damage
A supplement to the 2013 edition of Common Sense Pest Control from Taunton Press.
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How-ToControl Spider Mites With Beneficial Mites
You’re ready to try a more sustainable method of pest control and have purchased some beneficial mite eggs to release onto a plant infested with spider mites. How do you…
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How-ToThe Helpful Green Lacewing
Green lacewings are slender, bright, green-bodied flies that have massive appetites and use their big, sickle-shaped mouthparts to consume soft-bodied insects like aphids, thrips, white flies, and spider mites, as…
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How-ToHow to Prune Out Diseased Wood
In pruning texts and articles you'll often see references to the 3 D's. This stands for dead, damaged, and diseased wood. All three types are harmful to your plant and should…
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How-ToHow to Remove Dead Wood
A lot of the pruning you do for woody plants is done in late winter or early spring. But there are a few exceptions to this general rule. Dead…
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How-ToRidding Your Garden of Slugs and Snails
Snails and their no-shelled cousins, slugs, are a common problem in many gardens. Sometimes they're imported with new plants; once introduced to the terrain, they are hard to eliminate. Getting…
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