Help Bumblebees with Your Garden

Bumblebees in North America are facing pressures of disease, habitat loss, climate change and the overuse of pesticides. Here’s how gardeners can help: https://shar.es/1xFQ3r

How To Have a Weed-Free Garden With No Work!

How To Have a Weed-Free Garden With No Work! Thank you to: http://migardener.com/how-to-have-a-weed-free-garden-with-no-work/ Have you ever thought of a weed free garden and thought to yourself,  “impossible!“. Well think those thoughts no more. Hundreds of thousands...

The pursuit of perfection in tomatoes

Are you facing any tomato troubles about now? Well, there is help to be had, from Dr. Meg McGrath, a longtime vegetable pathologist for Cornell University. Plus a handy app! http://awaytogarden.com

Bean Beetle Control

Bean Beetle Control Missing from the discussion is: Do not  heavily seed and allow all plants to grow. This makes controlling the infestation and the harvest more difficult! http://extension.umd.edu/growit/insects/mexican-bean-beetle

Colorado Potato Beatles

Colorado Potato beatles have been spotted in the garden eating tomatillo plants! I am attaching a link from the U of minnesota extension P http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/insects/find/colorado-potato-beetles/ Physical Handpicking, especially in small gardens, can...