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Working the Bugs Out Here's a safe and effective system to control the plant-eating pests in your yard. |
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Healthy Home Orchards Use basic pest control techniques to harvest a healthy fruit crop. |
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Summer's Bad Guys A guide to some of the most common garden pests and their controls... |
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Corn Diseases, Insects, and Pests Most of the trouble gardeners have with corn is easily controlled. |
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Enlist Help from the Good Guys of the Garden When it comes to the garden, not all bugs are bad. Here are four simple ways to attract beneficial insects to your garden and to make sure they stay around. |
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Asparagus Beetle Two species are common. One is blue-black and common throughout the U.S. The other is orange with black spots. Both adults and larvae feed on developing spears, and later in the season, on ferny foliage. |
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The "Do-Good" Bugs A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects, mites and nematodes... |
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Flea Beetle Flea beetles can spread diseases such as early blight to potatoes or bacterial wilt to corn, and larvae feed on roots. |
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Colorado Potato Beetle If you see in your garden a small yellow beetle with black stripes over its wings and black spots just behind its head, say hello to the Colorado potato beetle. Potatoes are its first love, but this beetle will eagerly consume leaves of potato relatives eggplant, ground cherry, peppers, tomato, and tomatillo. |
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Hungarian Peppers Eastern Europe's finest varieties are now available to U.S. gardeners... |
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Cucumber Beetle They are more dangerous to their cucumber family hosts than many pests because they transmit deadly diseases -- mosaic and bacterial wilts. |
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Fire Ants They're the most common and destructive of the fire ants in the United States, and they're common in all of the southern tier states. |
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Corn Rootworm Corn rootworm is most likely a problem in gardens where corn has grown for two seasons or more. |
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Scale Different species of scale insects attack various kinds of fruits in all parts of the country. |
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Garden Pests 101 The best defense against garden damage from insects and disease is a long-term program of soil building. Healthy soil will produce healthy, resistant plants. |
National Gardening
July 2, 2003
Cathy Cromell |
Garden Guru: Whitney Cranshaw Often called upon to bridge the gap between the interests of insects and the interests of humans, Colorado author and entomology professor Whitney Cranshaw uses Integrated Pest Management's premise of working with the natural life cycles of insects to control pest problems with less pesticide. |
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Leafminer Many different insects are knows as leafminers, but all share the habit of tunneling between the upper and lower layers of leaves, and creating a visible, random trails or mines in the process. |
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Growing Roses the Natural Way 14 friendly remedies for rose pests and diseases |
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Whiteflies Found throughout the United States. These tiny, insects feed in large numbers on leaf undersides of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and other plants by sucking out plant juices. |
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Growing Organic Apples How to grow blemish-free apples without resorting to unfriendly sprays |
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The National Gardening Greenhouse The season never ends in the home solarium. |
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When Good Tomatoes Go Bad Here's a list of eight of the most common tomato fruit problems not caused by insect or disease. |
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Deborah Wechsler |
Ten Steps to Giant Tomatoes If you want to join the ranks of supergrowers in your area, follow these 10 steps. |
National Gardening
October 1999
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Sizzling Summer Treats Smoky-sweet, grilled or broiled, roasted peppers are hot! |
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Picking, Squashing, Fetching... They are three good ways to entice children into the garden. |
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High-tech Dust Foils Pests Modified kaolin clay ushers in a new era in plant protection... |
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Chemistry World
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Emma Stoye |
Tomatoes' cry for help turned into chemical weapon to battle insects Tomato plants not only take heed of their neighbours chemical 'warnings' but actually convert the signals into substances to defend themselves against imminent insect attack, researchers in Japan have discovered. |
Food Processing
September 2012
David Phillips |
Seasonal Approaches To Pest Control Can Prevent A Cold-Weather Invasion As summer ends and winter approaches, food plant managers need to change their focus and strategy if they want to keep insects and rodents out of their plants. |
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Hot Peppers and Capsaicin How to work with, and around, hot peppers |
Prepared Foods
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Flavor with Fire Roasting A fire-roasting process allows manufacturers to incorporate shelf-stable purees and chopped vegetables with confidence into salad dressings, sauces, prepared entrees, salsas and dips. |
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Jim Wilson |
The Day the Ladybugs Came When a blessing becomes a nusiance: lady beetles may cause inconvenience but will do no actual harm when clustered in or on houses. |
