Cucumbers: Top 5 Companion Plants to Help Repel Pests & Improve Your Cucumber’s Health!
Watch this video to learn more about the top 5 best companion plants for your cucumber plants!
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LIVE Webinar: Growing Food in the Summer (Heat Loving Plants, Managing Pests/Weeds & More!)
Join Dale & Carrie to learn about which foods you can grow in the summer!
June: What We’re Growing in Our Oklahoma Urban Garden
June is our wettest month, but don’t let that fool you because July and August’s heat is right around the corner. This makes June the perfect month to get drip irrigation set up for the upcoming months.
Which Pests Attack Spinach & How to Manage Organically!
Luckily, spinach doesn’t attract many pests and those that it does get are fairly easy to manage!
Garden Pests: How to Manage Scales in Your Backyard Garden
Scales are super tiny insects that suck the sap from your plants weakening or killing your plant. They secrete a covering over their tiny body that resemble scales.
Garden Pests: How to Manage Mealybugs in Your Vegetable Garden
Mealybugs are a small, white, soft-bodied insect typically found in the garden in warmer climates. Mealybugs will feed on plants by sucking sap out of them causing the leaves to yellow and curl. You may notice the plant getting sticky from the honeydew and this will attract ants as well. This blog post talks about how you can manage mealybugs in your garden with our free From Seed to Spoon mobile app!
Ladybugs Are One Of Your Best Garden Allies!
Ladybugs are not only very pretty and fun for kids to play with, but they eat aphids and other pests in your garden! One single ladybug can eat up to 5,000 small insects in its lifetime! The larvae of ladybugs are long and black alligator-looking creatures with yellow-orange spots.
How to: Manage Asparagus Beetles in Your Garden
Asparagus beetles have a similar look to lady bugs. As larvae, they are 1/3 inch long and are slug like in appearance. Adult asparagus beetles are about 1/4 inch in length and are metallic blue-black with either yellow or black spots on their wings. Both adult and larvae can be dangerous to your asparagus causing the tips to turn brown and twist.
How to: Manage Potato Beetles in Your Garden
The Colorado potato beetle is one of the major pests that can affect your crops. Adults are round beetles with orange/yellow and black stripes on their wings. Their head is orange with black spots. If left unchecked, they can destroy your plants in no time!
How to: Manage Leaf Miners in Your Garden
Leaf miners that affect vegetables refers to a small gray-yellow fly. These flies lay tiny white eggs that turn into green maggots. These maggots can destroy the leaves of the plants in your garden.