A vegetable gardeners worst nightmare is the garden pests! These little monsters quietly eat your precious crops. Learn all you need to keep the pests at bay.
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 …
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. …
Giving you loads of fresh apples in the fall and a scenic sight and shelter throughout the rest of the year, your apple tree has stood by you for a long time. Now that it’s not looking its best, will you stand back and watch it suffer? No. Take action before you lose your humble …
You aren’t the only one excited about your thriving tomato crop. Hundreds of insects are equally fascinated and can infest the crop in large numbers. If you’ve noticed white bugs on tomato plants, you’re most likely dealing with whiteflies. These white, flying insects are usually spotted on the leaves’ underside, sucking out the sap from …
Nothing beats the taste of the fresh, juicy tomatoes eaten straight off the vines! It’s also one of the easiest vegetables to grow. This is exactly why almost every vegetable gardener grows this vegetable. However, despite being easy to grow, there are many tomato plant diseases and treatments available. As a gardener, these are the …
You lovingly start tomatoes from seeds. You tend to the plants carefully transplanting them on. You check every day and pinch out the suckers. Then you notice the leaves are curling up? You did everything but now this!! What is wrong, is this a sign of disease? Did you do something wrong? Why are my …
We all love our plants, especially those that bring juicy, fresh vegetables to our table. Discovering your tomato plant leaves turning yellow can be a daunting sight. A few yellow leaves on the plant are natural and shouldn’t be a matter of concern, but too many of these should raise a red flag. It’s commonly …