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How-ToTrapping Garden Pests With Yellow
Yellow can attract (and therefore trap) two of the worst gardening pests, the destructive cucumber beetle and the dreaded squash vine borer.
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How-ToFriendly Ways to Battle Garden Pests
Beneficial insects are an environmentally sound alternative to chemicals
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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-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-ToDIY Raised Bed (Removable) Pest Gate
This do-it-yourself pest gate is removable and can help keep out unwanted guests.
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How-ToMake Your Own Natural Spray for Japanese Beetles
We all hate Japanese Beetles. Thankfully there is now a natural way to get rid of them and you can make it yourself!
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Kitchen GardeningPest-Fighting Flowers
Growing flowers alongside your veggies can greatly help in the fight against pests.
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Kitchen GardeningRaised Bed Pest Cover – Redux
With Fall planting right around the corner, it was time to re-cover my raised bed "defense system".
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How-ToRaised Bed Pest Cover
If you have a raised bed garden, here's an "add-on" you can build to keep most pests from munching on your plants. You're basically building a "lid" that fits on…
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Kitchen GardeningPyrethrum-Based Insecticides from Chrysanthemums
If hand-picking or spraying with water are ineffective and Bt doesn't solve your problem, consider stepping up to a pyrethrum based insecticide. Use it judiciously: It is relatively safe for…
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