Let me just preface by saying… Eww… eeeewwwww… and EEEEWWWWWWWWW! I now have a new pest in the garden – the Colorado potato beetle, a notoriously hard insect to control. Anytime I encounter a new bug, my first reaction is to destroy them in the most violent way possible. Because my flamethrower was out for…
I was recently digging around in my garden and discovered what looked like soap suds on a few leaves and stems of my strawberry plants. Perplexed, I gave the old timer up the road a jingle. He told me that he didn’t know what the hell I was talking about and cursed at me because…
They came like thieves in the night and bushwhacked my tomatoes. {cue dramatic music} FLEA BEETLES… And so begins another chapter of the bitter beetle battle. Last summer, I successfully fought off an onslaught of Japanese beetles, only to be dealt a devastating defeat by the cucumber beetle. Now, flea beetles have laid siege to…
After the Great Beetle Battle of 2014, I have decided to take a different approach to planting cucumbers this year. Cucumber beetles have always been a nuisance in my garden, but last summer they outflanked me and left a path of cucumber devastation. I normally start my cucumbers indoors, in small growing pots, and transplant them…
The Farmers in the Dell 