Posts on the best ways to keep wildlife and insect pests from destroying your home garden.
Backyard trees can fall victim to some unforeseeable natural threats, which can weaken and even eventually kill them. Here, we’ll review the most common threats to trees and how you can protect them from damage.
What Are the Most Common Threats To Trees in Your Landscape? Read More »
As we’ve moved away from our agrarian roots, we seem to have lost sight of the fact that birds are helpers, not pests, for gardeners.
To promote the growth of healthy plants, getting rid of pest insects can be as simple as sending in your own army of beneficial insects.
Bordeaux mixture and copper solutions have been used safely for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years to control fungal infections in plants.
Bordeaux Mixture and Copper Are Very Effective Organic Fungicides Read More »
Wild mammals like the same foods as we do, especially in such tidy groupings in your garden. Liquid Fence is by far the most effective repellent for keeping them out.
What Is The Best Rabbit, Squirrel and Deer Repellent? (Liquid Fence review) Read More »
How little, it turns out, I knew about birds, especially the species that live in my backyard.
Review: Gardening For The Birds: How to Create A Bird-Friendly Backyard by George Adams Read More »
Early Blight and Late Blight, although caused by two distinctly different fungi, have the same effect on your tomatoes or potatoes – either one may end your garden season prematurely.
Early Blight and Late Blight Control in Tomatoes and Potatoes Read More »
Beneficial nematodes control pests that destroy plants. But other nematodes completely destroy plants. How do you know which is which?
Beneficial Nematodes – Garden Friends Or Enemies? Read More »
A single bat is able to consume from 1000 to 6000 insects a night. Why not use a bat box to invite a bat to guard your garden and patio?
Bats are Insect Eating Machines For Your Yard and Garden Read More »
Rabbits and deer are notorious for grazing in your garden. There are a handful of plants they won’t eat, but nothing is certain.
Rabbits and Deer Won’t Eat These Flowers, Shrubs, Herbs, and Trees Read More »