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. …

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…