If you prepare your soil and follow good cultivation procedures, growing roses can be a hugely rewarding task. But while you may love your roses to death, there are also some pests that love them too – and if they make a meal of your roses, the roses WILL die! If you are … [Read more...]
Keeping Animals Out of the Garden
Animals can quite simply become large garden pests. You may love them, but they can also do untold damage in the garden. All domestic animals including dogs, cats and rabbits can be a nuisance, as can rodents like burrowing moles and squirrels. Where deer run free, they too … [Read more...]
How to Identify Plant Problems
Even the most diligent gardeners will have problems with their plants from time to time. Insects attack plants above and below the ground, leaves go yellow, roots shrivel, fruit is stunted (or doesn’t appear at all), and flowers drop before they have even opened. Sound … [Read more...]
Common Garden Pests Found in the Vegetable Garden
Garden pests are extremely annoying, particularly when tons move in, chomping leaves and nibbling your fruit and vegetables. But you shouldn’t wait for them to do visible damage before you take action. If you spend just a little bit of time learning about the different pests you … [Read more...]
Top 10 Beneficial Insects That Help in the Garden
When we think gardening and insects, we normally think pest. And the best way to get rid of pests in the garden has generally been to use pesticides. Sadly, while many of the true garden pests have become completely resistant to pesticides and poisons that so many people use, the … [Read more...]