Growing Blooms, Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit
You can buy peanuts in or out of the shell. Features: 1) Peanuts attract the following birds: woodpeckers, titmice, nuthatches, chickadees and blue jays. Keep in mind that grackles and squirrels love peanuts too! 2) If you put out peanuts in the shell it will help to deter starlings. 3) Peanuts are high in fat […]
While this looks like an innocent and cute white butterfly, its offspring wreaks havoc on some plants. Features:  Cabbage white butterflies have white wings edged in gray with black spots on the wings. The female butterfly has two black spots on each fore-wing and the males have one. Their wing span is usually under 2 inches. […]
Black aphids are tiny insects that like to wreak havoc. This year I was attempting to save spinach seeds and I noticed that my plant was attacked by black aphids. Features:  These aphids are black, oval shaped and are only 1/8 inch long. Damage:  They will suck the sap out of your plants – yuck! Eggs:  When […]
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