Pest Patrol

Finding Disease Resistance for Favorite Flower Varieties

When planning the vegetable garden, many of us look for disease-resistant varieties to avoid blight, mildew, and bacterial infections. But what about your flowers? It's no fun when your phlox or Monarda have powdery mildew, or your roses succumb to blackspot. The good news is that you can look for varieties that offer disease resistance ...

Planting for Pollinators this Spring

My garden is teasing spring, so it’s time to start thinking about how to help our pollinators. For many plants, pollinators play a key role in reproduction, and agriculture relies on them heavily. Without pollinators, we’d lose much of our food, and entire ecosystems would collapse. Today’s blog will provide four pollinator-friendly plants that can ...