Understand your pests I regularly encourage gardeners to actively plant and garden to encourage butterflies and my garden is filled with delightful butterflies which flit about and delight us. However, there is one butterfly that I don’t appreciate and that is the cabbage white butterfly. It lays its caterpillars on many of my vegies and […]
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Recently I had a visitor ask me about how I managed weeds if I didn’t use chemicals. Since we purchased our property 6 years ago, I have been passionate about demonstrating how it is possible to control weeds without chemicals and I figure if we can do it on three acres, it is possible to
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These sap-sucking insects are black and red or black and orange and while a few don’t hurt, they can cause damage when they are in great numbers. They can cause new growth to wilt and die when they suck a plant’s sap. They can also suck the sap of fruit such as tomatoes and cause