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Keep Caterpillars in Check in Your Garden
Identification, row covers, natural enemies, and Bt keep cabbage caterpillars from making your cole crops look like Swiss cheese.
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Stone Wall Tactics
An ecological outlook and organic materials vitalize a garden. By working with nature instead of against it, James Carr and his wife cultivate a vegetable garden without chemicals.
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Kitchen Gardening
How to Control Voles in Your Garden
Voles are cute until they damage special plantings. Sheila Davis tells how to manage habitat in your garden to discourage the critters.
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Kitchen Gardening
Squashing Squash Bugs
Insect predators and prevention keep squash bug numbers under control.
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Kitchen Gardening
Pyrethrum-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…