Aphid Army at UM Public Health Garden
These photos were sent to me by Deborah Lakowicz Dramby, a graduate student in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. …
Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Stink Bugs: Update from the Washington Post
“Stink Bugs Migrating to the Deep South” by Darryl Fears in today’s Washington Post gives an update on what’s happening in battle…
Stink Bugs: New research findings
Stink bugs destroying two of our tomatoes What have scientists learned during the last year in studies of the brown marmorated st…
Awesome (really!) Video about Pollinators
If you've ever wanted to see pollinators at work, up close, photographer Louie Schwartzberg produced a video that gave me a n…
Sherlock Gardener: Case of the hollow turnips
My discovery: Hollow turnip How disappointing! The leaves of my fall crop of Golden Globe turnips (Burpee Organic) were nearly p…
The thinking season; and whither stink bugs?
In theory I am all in favor of year-round gardening, using season-extension techniques to produce food even in the dead of winter…
Stink Bugs: Chainsaw 128, Peach Trees 0
Stink bugs on my tomato Stink bugs this year destroyed most of Frank Gouin’s peach crop, so Frank’s going to take his chainsaw to…
My pumpkins's new friends
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to my newest ‘friend’: Public this is pickleworm - Pickleworm, this is public Acc…
White Hats and Black Hats
by: Dale Johnson As a child in the early 60’s, I would turn the black and white TV on and more often than not, there would be a w…
My stink-bug trap experiment
When it came to natural disasters, stink bugs were worse than Hurricane Irene for many of our vegetable gardens this summer, an…
To eat a stink bug
I just wanted to call your attention to two encouraging posts/videos on Mike Raupp's Bug of the Week blog: Chinese praying m…
Sweet shop for wasps?
The Red Noodle yardlong beans at the demo garden didn't get picked this week - here's why: If you can't see well enou…
Tomato Patch: Coping with stink bugs
They're back on the windows “Where are the stink bugs this year?” friends asked in May and June. “Outside breeding so w…
Tomato ups and downs
Well, this is depressing. This is the full, ugly picture of stink bug damage: a doomed tomato (in my despair I forgot to n…
Stink Bug Update: EPA approves insecticides on emergency basis
The brown marmorated stink bug invasion made page one of today’s Washington Post, where the headline proclaims: “With a stink…
What? Dill again?
I never know where dill will pop up in one of our gardens. Hundreds of seedlings have sprouted this spring under our two shrub re…
When tomato met basil
My first garden was a mixture of a garden plot and container plants. I didn't have enough room to plant everything that I wa…
Harvest in the Snow
We don't usually garden into December at the Derwood Demo Garden, but this fall we've been short on work days because so…
Harlequin Bugs Vanquished! (Well, we tried.)
Last year at the Derwood demo garden, we had an awful problem with harlequin bugs ( Murgantia histrionica ), a pest of the Brassi…
Grow It and (Sometimes They) Eat It
Gardening is full of surprises, especially for a novice like me. I became a Master Gardener in Washington County in April 2009. T…
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