How to Manage Nematodes in Your Backyard Garden!
Nematodes, also known as roundworms, can be a microscropic problem living in your soil. They are transparent and unsegmented worms.
February 13, 2019 1 Comment
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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.
January 28, 2019 1 Comment
Garden Pests: How To Manage Pillbugs (Roly Polys) in Your Backyard Vegetable Garden
Pillbugs, often called Roly Polys, can be commonly found in your garden. They are typically only a pest if there is an excess of them. These crustaceans are very important in the decomposition process in your garden. They like to feed primarily upon decaying matter but can also feed on seedlings or fruits/vegetables sitting on the ground if there is a lot in your garden.
November 21, 2018 No Comments
Our 3 Year Old (Mary) Hunting Fuzzy Caterpillars & Tomato Horn Worms in the Garden
Mary loves looking for bugs in the garden, and this video shows her hunting for caterpillars and tomato horn worms! Learn more about how to manage pests and attract beneficial insects in our FREE iOS, Android, and Universal Web App!
October 27, 2018 No Comments
Garden Allies – How Wasps, Bees & Spiders Help Us & Why We Don’t Use Pesticides
This video talks about how wasps, bees and spiders help us in the garden, and why we don’t use pesticides. See more videos, blog posts and download our free mobile app @ seedtospoon.net
October 16, 2018 No Comments
How to: Manage Raspberry Cane Borers in Your Garden
Raspberry cane borers are a beetle that especially loves to feed on your berries. You can tell you have a problem if you notice wilting in your plants and see rings cut into the stem directly below the wilting.
September 3, 2018 No Comments
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.
September 2, 2018 No Comments
How to: Manage Raccoons in Your Garden
Raccoons are huge corn-lovers, and they will destroy the corn in your garden in a hurry. Keeping them out of your garden is imperative to protecting your corn.
August 31, 2018 4 Comments
How to: Manage the Carrot Rust Fly in Your Garden
The carrot rust fly looks similar to the common house-fly with a dark-green body and yellow extremities and head. The carrot rust fly itself doesn’t do the damage, but their larvae is particularly bad for your plants. The adults lay their eggs early spring on the surface of the soil then the pests hatch a couple days later as creamy white larvae and tunnel into the roots of your plants causing slow growth and sometimes death.
August 30, 2018 No Comments
How to: Manage Stinkbugs in Your Garden
Adult stink bugs are green or brown and grow up to ¾” long; they have distinctive shield-shaped bodies. Young stink bugs are smaller, rounder, and more colorful, with highly patterned black, red, white, and green colored bodies.
August 29, 2018 No Comments