The other day I went to harvest some more raspberries and found two surprises! On the first raspberry bush, I found a young praying mantis. On the second raspberry bush, I found a young grasshopper. When I was little, I loved trying to catch grasshoppers. While grasshoppers are cute, they can do a lot of damage […]
Red Alert
Red Alert – Hornworms are Bad Bugs
If you grow members of the nightshade family such as such as tomatoes and tomatillos, the tomato hornworm can destroy your plants. The hornworm will grow between 3 and 4 inches long. First of all, I noticed that the leaves on my one tomatillo plant looked like they were sagging. Then I noticed a rather […]
Red Alert – Cabbage Worms are Bad for the Cabbage Family
If you grow a lot of the members of the cabbage family such as such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale and kohlrabi, the evil cabbage white butterly will hunt you down and give you cabbage worms that can destroy your plants. These small butterflies are white with black spots. They will fly over […]
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