Pest Patrol

Know your enemies in the weed wars

This week my mother was bemoaning not sprinkling a pre-emergent in her garden earlier in the season. (Of course, this was because she flew out to visit us!) I asked her what weeds are her biggest problem, but she wasn’t quite sure. This is an important piece of the puzzle. If you're going to gain ...

How to rid your landscape of poison ivy

“Leaves of three… run as far away as you possibly can.” The little ditty about poison ivy might not exactly go like that (it’s really “Leaves of three, let it be.”) but you get the picture. With my recent trip back to Ohio, I quickly remembered how poison ivy grows pretty much everywhere back there. ...