Cats may be cute - and good mouse hunters, but you do not want cat poop in your raised bed garden! For any gardener there is little more disgusting and horrific than getting a hand full of cat...
Category: Garden Pests
Brassicas such as cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cauliflower are included in vegetable growing efforts of many gardeners. Indeed many vegetable gardens would seem a little ‘bare’ if...
How To Protect Leeks From Mice For myself, I prefer leeks in a nice cheese sauce - not at all sure about leeks & mice :) The bad news is that like it or not, I have had a little run-in with the...
The Giant Elephant Hawkmoth Caterpillar I saw this beauty crawling across my path the other day, and could hardly believe it! Measuring at just about 3.5 inches fully stretched out, it is the...
Enter The Shining Flower Beetle: Ok, I'll admit the headline title was a little dramatized :) However they are shiny and they are also Beetles – the beetle in fact of the genus Olibrus from the...
Growing Vegetables in Containers I think it's fair to say that most people think that containers or container gardening is for flowers only, however I am here to say that indeed it is not! In fact a...
