Planting vegetables is a great way to make your garden productive as well as beautiful. If you sow the seeds in the right conditions and keep their light and water levels consistent, you should be ...

Natural pesticides are a safer and more environmentally friendly alternative to synthetic chemicals. There are several proven natural pesticides to choose from. Natural pesticides work best with other ...

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

Q: I’d like to have a plan to reduce pests in my vegetable garden this year. There’s got to be an easier way than chasing after one booming population to the next…I hope! A: There are a few tactics ...

The other day while poking around a Delicata squash plant looking for blossoms, I found a good-sized colony of black bean aphids on the undersides of some leaves. Those aphids are the hardest of all ...

The early season garden “honeymoon” is over, as early summer pests are appearing to ravage our vegetable gardens. I still have not figured out exactly what has happened to my tomato plants, but I now ...