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It’s gut-wrenching when the almost-ready-to-harvest lush lettuce and tender tomatoes that you’ve spent months painstakingly tending are ravaged by rodents or butchered by bugs. Some garden pests are ...

Cucumber beetles are one of the most problematic pests for cucumbers, but even these pesky insects are no match for nasturtiums. Research has found that nasturtiums emit a peppery fragrance that ...

While you might welcome the recent pattern of milder winters followed by the earlier arrival of spring, the greater number of warm days could spell trouble for your garden. Many common plant pests and ...

Gardening is one of those hobbies that is mastered only after a lot of trial and error. I grew up and lived in Southern California most of my life, and garden pests ...

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) is inviting Michigan stakeholders to provide comments on a proposed firewood quarantine, according to a press release on Friday.

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