Of all the organic products we can use to eliminate pests in the garden Spinosad (spin-OH-sid) has perhaps the most curious back story. A scientist who was part of a team that was searching for new naturally occurring pest controls was on vacation in the Caribbean in 1982. He was poking around an old abandoned [...]
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Tuesday’s Tips — Spinosad for Garden Pests
Posted in Garden, Gardening, Insects, Organic Gardening, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Organic Gardening, Organic Pest Control, Organic Pesticides, Spinosad, Vegetable Garden on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday’s Tips — Bt for Caterpillar Control
Posted in Garden, Gardening, Organic Gardening, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki, Bt, Cabbage Worm, Controlling Caterpillars, Organic Pest Control, Organic Pesticides, Tomato Hornworm on May 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We are deep into spring and on our way to summer though it sure doesn’t feel like it in Southern California. We’ve got cool temps, wind and rain which is unusual for this time of year. What’s not so unusual are the garden pests that have started to make their appearance in my garden and [...]
Tuesday’s Tips — March Gardening Tips
Posted in Flowers, Garden, Organic Gardening, Ornamentals, Southern California Gardening, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Gardening, Manures and Soil, Organic Fertilizer, Organic Gardening, Organic Pest Control, Spring Gardening Chores on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today’s tips are meant for gardeners in Southern California, but will apply to those of you in cooler climates in a month or so. We’ve been having a spell of wet, cool weather. Normally things are growing at a rapid pace by now, but because the night-time (and even the day) temps have been unseasonably [...]
Tuesday’s Tips — Rose Slugs
Posted in California, Garden, Insects, Organic Gardening, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Controlling Rose Slugs, Damaged Roses, Garden Pests, Gardening, Gardening in Orange County, Insecticidal Soap, INtegrated Pest Management, Neem Oil, Organic Gardening, Organic Pest Control, Rose Slugs, Roses, Sawfly Larva, Skeletonized Rose Leaves, Southern California Gardening, Spinosad on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Barbara: Summer garden doldrums — I’ve noticed that I’m a little less enthusiastic in my garden lately. I’m pretty content to wander about doing nothing more than a little grooming here and there. But that’s all right because besides deadheading and keeping the garden tidy there’s not that much to do. The exception is keeping [...]
Tuesday’s Tips — Controlling Earwigs
Posted in Block Island, California, Flower Photography, Fruit, Garden, Insects, Organic Gardening, Ornamentals, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Earwig Damage, Earwigs, Garden Pests, Organic Pest Control, Pincher Bugs, Trapping Earwigs on July 13, 2010 | 9 Comments »
One of the most common garden pests is the earwig or pincher bug, a nasty-looking little bug that actually is not all bad. Earwigs eat living and dead material in your garden, doing a lot of cleanup work. They love to eat soft-bodied bugs like mites and aphids and they’ll eat insect eggs too. In [...]
Tuesday’s Tips — Organic Pest Control
Posted in California, Colorado, Garden, Organic Gardening, Tuesday's Tips, tagged Beneficial Insects, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, How to Control Garden Pests, Organic Gardening, Organic Pest Control, Vegetable Garden on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been a little busy this week — more like crazy busy. Mary Beth is settled in Colorado, but her spring is just happening. Her garden got by for five years while she lived on Block Island with a minimum of care, so now she’s got lots of work to do replacing plants that didn’t [...]
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