Pest Patrol

What to Buy Now to Battle Pests Later

When we’re planning the garden, it’s important to think about frequent pests and how we’re going to deal with them. With continuing supply chain issues it's better to gather what we need now than to wait until we have a problem. So while there is snow still on the ground or it's not conducive to ...

Japanese Beetles on Vegetable Plants

Japanese beetles are devastating my veggies. Not surprising, really, since I did have a severe outbreak of grubs—from which Japanese beetles develop—in my vegetable garden’s soil over the last two months. The grubs (the larval form of the beetle) have now grown up, emerged from the ground and become the devastating chewers that they are. ...

Grubs In the Vegetable Garden

Having grubs in the vegetable garden is a new experience for me. At my home in the country, grubs are all over the lawn, which I completely expected. But I didn’t expect them in a patch of fallow dirt that had been the previous owner’s (not very productive) vegetable patch. I noted the grubs in ...