For many of us, home gardening is an integral part of living the dream. The freedom that comes with the ownership and the knowledge that you are growing your own crops is just unbeatable. But pests and diseases can make the realization of your dream a horrible nightmare. Pest infestation and diseases … Read more
Most home gardeners will not consider spiders as a common threat after all apart from the deadlier species most seem to be practically harmless. Only spiders ‘mites’ can be fatally damaging to your plants, and the spiders that you see every day shouldn’t do much harm, in fact, they can sometimes help … Read more
If you don’t have an effective garden pest control strategy for your garden, it could be vulnerable to all kinds of critter attacks. There is no way to completely turn insects away from your garden, they have evolved over thousands of years living in this type of habitat, but not all insects … Read more
The subject of garden pests is extensive and the information available could easily fill a large and comprehensive website. Obviously as this is a gardening website, I want to include at least some information on the more common pest issues. I decided the best way to start off this page was to … Read more
For slugs, it took a long while until we discovered an easy way to repel them. An older gentleman that works with us at the same restaurant as a dishwasher is also the restaurant’s gardener. The looks fabulous year-round! installing a copper rim around your plant beds as wide as an half … Read more