You notice spots on leaves that weren’t there a few days ago. Some look powdery, others dark and spreading. Leaves begin to yellow, weaken, and eventually die back. This is usually a fungal disease—and once conditions are right, it can spread across your garden quickly. If you’re not completely sure what problem you’re dealing with, … Read more
Broccoli, cabbage, kale, and cauliflower are productive, reliable crops — but they all share one problem: they attract caterpillars. If your brassicas look like they’ve been shot through with holes by midseason, cabbage worms and cabbage loopers are usually the cause. If you are not fully sure what you’re seeing: 👉 Garden Pest Identification Guide … Read more
Insecticidal soap is one of the oldest pest control tools in gardening — it has been used for more than 200 years to manage soft-bodied garden pests. It’s inexpensive, biodegradable, low in toxicity to mammals, and effective against a wide range of the pests that gardeners deal with most: aphids, whiteflies, spider mites, mealybugs, and … Read more
Your squash plant looked fine yesterday. Today it’s wilted, collapsed, and dying — even though the soil is still moist. This is one of the most frustrating problems in the garden, and it’s almost always caused by squash vine borers. If you are not fully sure what’s causing the damage: 👉 Garden Pest Identification Guide … Read more
Garden pest identification is the first step to solving almost any problem in your garden. You walk out and something is off. Leaves are curling, turning yellow, developing spots, or disappearing altogether. Sometimes there are visible insects. Sometimes there aren’t. The hardest part of pest control is not treatment—it’s identification. If you misidentify the problem, … Read more