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How-To
Winning the Slug Wars in the Garden
Sometimes these slimy creatures force gardeners into action
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How-To
10 Ways to Keep Your Garden Healthy
Learn how to eliminate plant diseases by understanding and managing the conditions that cause them
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How-To
The 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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Kitchen Gardening
Book Review – Good Bug Bad Bug
Good Bug Bad Bug, by Jessica Walliser, is an indispensable field guide for quickly and easily identifying the most common garden pests and beneficial insects.
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Article
Book Review: Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Texas Bug Book is a glossary of the most common pests and beneficials around the garden.
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Kitchen Gardening
Control Colorado Potato Beetle with a Mix of Strategies
The Colorado potato beetle has become resistant to a number of commercial pesticides. Fortunately, there are physical, horticultural, and biological controls to choose from. Most likely, a mix of strategies…