Toads / Garden Pest Tips
How toads can protect your garden from harmful pests. Create habitat for toads and they will eat flies, slugs, grubs, and other garden pests. The average toad will eat 50-100 insects every night - that's 10,000 to 20,000 insects throughout a ... [... more]
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Insect, Bug, and Pest Control Methods - Garden Pest Tip
Master Gardener Teresa Watkins offers sound "bug" advice and information on dealing with and controlling insects, bugs, and other pests that are harmful to your plants and your garden. In the summer, our thoughts turn to flowers, green grass, [... more]
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Super-Duper Kill-em-Dead
How to use beneficial insects in the garden, including information on bugs that help to remove and eradicate other insect pests. Just as no great summer picnic is complete without the proverbial ants, neither is a healthy garden complete without ... [... more]
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Parasitic Wasps Eat Garden Pests
Parasitic Wasps are beneficial insects for your garden. Most of them are small, cannot sting, are not aggressive towards humans, and eat pests. Parasitic wasps are large, artificial assemblage of Hymenoptera superfamilies. Many parasitic wasps ... [... more]
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Non-Toxic Slug Control - Garden Pest Tip
How to go on the offensive against slugs in your garden and control these pests using biological and organic methods. The best way to combat slugs is to understand their lifecycle. Know thy enemy! Slugs themselves contain a high percentage of ... [... more]
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Luring Ladybugs Into Your Garden - Garden Pest Tip
How to attract ladybugs to your garden and keep them there, and the many benefits they can provide to your garden and to your plants. Ladybugs are generally known as beneficial bugs,they eat destructive aphids like they're going out of style. ... [... more]
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Uprooting the Cats: A Survival Manual for Gardeners - ...
The controversy rages: Do feline gardening companions do so much damage that it's worth your time, trouble and frayed nerves to attempt to keep them out of your garden? What about the damage that would be done by rabbits, moles, voles and mice ... [... more]
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Controlling Lawn Grubs Organically - Garden Pest Tip
How to control white grubs in your lawn without using harmful chemicals. Information and a detailed description on using biological controls to eliminate a common garden pest that can damage your plants. Beetle grubs can turn a fine looking lawn ... [... more]
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Controlling Rodents Naturally - Garden Pest Tip
How to control rodents such as mice, moles, voles and gophers naturally and keep them from ruining your plants, flowers, and garden, including biological control methods. There are hills and canyons in and around Los Angeles where gophers are ... [... more]
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Dealing with Animals in Your Organic Garden - Garden ...
Mort Mather, author of Gardening for Independence, on dealing with animals in your garden. Mort tells you how to discourage deer, skunks, and other animals from eating your fruits and vegetables. A neighbor stopped by last week to ask if I knew a ... [... more]
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Fencing to Keep Unwanted Animals Out of Your Garden - ...
Information on how to keep deer, rabbits, gophers, moles, coyotes, pets, bears, and other animals out of your yard by building a fence. Discusses fencing option pros and cons. By Josie Borlongan, Garden Guides Contributor To keep animals out of ... [... more]
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Fungus gnats
The two most common problems encountered by gardeners when starting seeds indoors are damping off and fungus gnats. Here are some low-cost home remedies. Late winter and early spring is a great time to start seedlings and get the gardening season ... [... more]
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