The Garden Lady

[...] garden. For photos of 10 beneficial insects read this. Pull up and destroy plants that encourage insects that you don’t want. If you [...]

[...] that eat plants in the garden are good and helpful insects. We all know that bees are beneficial insects. Yes, they might sting us, but basically they are helping to pollinate the flowers or to [...]

[...] chemicals that kill harmful insects, remember that most of these insecticides will kill the beneficial insects as well. Most insecticides are equal opportunity insect killers, not being able to [...]

[...] her book here. It is not just synthetic insecticides that can cause problems to humans or beneficial insects. Even natural insecticides may cause health problem. One insecticide that sounds like it [...]

[...] There are, of course, some insect pests that NO one wants. One of those insects is the Japanese beetle. Japanese beetles like over 275 [...]

[...] So what should a gardener do if there are insect pests in the garden? There are too many suggestions to write just one short article about how to [...]

[...] you can know enough to outsmart the insect with the minimum amount of force or effort. Some insect pests love many crops while others insect prefer only one family of plants. The insects that eat [...]

[...] flowers and herbs. Their damage is ugly. Then when the move on to another phase of their life cycle, they might not need to feed on the plant leaves or stems. This spring the the four-lined plant [...]

[...] on your garden for their livelihood- literally eating to remain alive to repeat their own life cycle. So when you have insects on your plants you have to decide “How important is the damage to the [...]

[...] especially awful on the roses. To get rid of Japanese beetles, one should start early in their life cycle when Japanese beetles are in their grub stage living in the soil of your lawn or garden. Milky [...]

[...] for next season … and he will NOT play in tonight’s season finale at Madison Square Garden. Odom’s only pro action this season has been 2 games for a team in Spain. [...]

[...] for 7 people and a dog in Australia. Can you say amazing? So Ed Sheeran may have sold out Madison Square Garden 3 times last year, but now he’s taking a more personal approach by playing in his [...]

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[...] opinion, take the dead branches with some living parts, if any part is alive, to your local Master Gardener office. They will look at what you bring in to determine the cause of dying or death. [...]

[...] But even better than sending the photo to TheGardenLady, is to take your plant to your local Master Gardener office for them to see the plant and, hopefully, to recommend a way of saving it. This is a [...]

[...] it but cannot find the information online, take the insect in a closed jar to your local Master Gardener office or agriculture extension office. Do NOT squish the insect. To kill it put the closed [...]