If you’ve been growing tomatoes, there are high chances that you’ve encountered tomato hornworms. Tomato hornworms, often confused with tobacco hornworms, are green caterpillars that can devastate your tomato crop. Other than tomatoes, they also feed on other plants from the nightshade family, including eggplant, pepper, potatoes and tobacco. Amidst the frustration and schemes to …
Keeping pests out of your vegetable garden doesn’t always have to include strong pesticides. Pesticides kill the good bugs too, diminish the quality of harvest and lay a negative impact on the environment. There are several natural, environmentally friendly ways of getting rid of bugs, companion planting being one of them. Grow plants that repel …
Slugs are popular garden pests. Snail and slugs may be cute to some, but they will eat just about anything fresh or rotting that will come in their way. Once they invade your garden, they’ll eat pepper, lettuce, cabbage, spinach and almost every vegetable plant that you’ve been tending to for so long. Before you …
Every gardener loves seeing those lush green leaves, bright flowers and perfect fruits hanging from the branches. Instead, if you find holed fruits, bitten leaves and colonies of unsightly insects crawling on the plants, it can be downright depressing. Pests can easily destroy even the hardiest crops, so it’s important to take action before it’s …
Aphids are one of the most common and annoying pests in the garden. What makes them even worse is that they are hard to spot. It’s unlikely that you’ll see them unless there’s a heavy infestation on the plants. Nonetheless, if you find any green tiny bugs moving around on your plant, they’re most likely …
Slugs are one of the most common garden pests that you’ll spot around your vegetable crops. Shiny mucus trails, holes in the leaves and decapitated seedlings are all signs that slugs have been sneaking around in your garden. They’ll eat both leaves and fruits, damaging your harvest to a great extent. It’s natural that you …
You tend to your blueberry bush all season long – water it, fertilize it, prune it – only to enjoy those lovely berries at the end of the season. It can be heartbreaking to learn that the fruits are all gone. Even what’s left on the bush are bitten, damaged fruits that are far from …
Raspberries are popular in home gardens. Raspberries are easy to grow and produce a heavy yield if you take good care of them. Since raspberries are self-fertile, you can even grow a single bush to produce fruit. Raspberry plants are unlike many other fruits. Raspberries won’t take long to grow and will give you sweet …
Onion is a herbaceous biennial grown for its edible bulb. They’re one of the most commonly cultivated vegetables since they are so important in culinary use in almost every culture. While there aren’t many pests that will bother your onion crop since their pungency naturally deters insects, there are some diseases that you should keep …
Here is a joke for you. What’s worse than finding a caterpillar in your steamed cabbage? Finding half a caterpillar ???? Cabbage white caterpillars are often spotted around brassica crops from late spring to autumn. It’s heartbreaking to see a potentially healthy harvest transform into a bunch of holed vegetables by the end of summer. …
