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. ...
Read More | Just VeggiesRoot maggots and turnips—or root maggots and anything you’re about to eat—are not words that should go together. I have had very little experience in growing turnips, with just one previous crop of pure-white turnips that were meant to be harvested quite young, about an inch in diameter. I guess I pulled that crop before ...
Read More | Just VeggiesHaving 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 ...
Read More | Just VeggiesAnimals of all sorts are unwelcome in the garden, and using a repellent of some sort becomes necessary. In my urban community garden the most common animal visitor we have are a few neighborhood cats. They are fairly harmless, usually just sitting in a patch of sunlight or taking a nap under the giant rhubarb ...
Read More | Just VeggiesLike I did in my recent Tomatoes and the Victory Garden 2.0 post, I’m riffing off of the National Garden Bureau’s continuing series of articles, their latest being a Q&A with their NGB Experts that is all about peppers. The Victory Garden 2.0 project, as I’ve said before, is aimed at helping new pandemic-prompted gardeners ...
Read More | Just VeggiesTomatoes is next topic in the new Victory Garden 2.0 blog series from the National Garden Bureau (NGB). The series has become so popular and so needed by new gardeners that it has grown in length (way beyond the original four posts!) and also content type. The latest edition about all new gardeners’ favorite veggie—tomatoes—is ...
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