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Moss in Your Lawn – You Are Not Alone

Get sympathy and tips if you have moss in your lawn. If your lawn is moss free read these tips to keep it that way.

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Garden Frost the Pros and Cons

Most things in the garden have good and bad points and you can work with the good aspects of frost with these tips

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Homemade Organic Garden Sprays

If you do not want to use chemical sprays on your vegetables and plants try DIY organic sprays. Here are several organic sprays you can use and tips on the type of sprayer to use.

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Tips for Dealing with Slugs and Snails

Slugs and snails have tremendous appetites for devouring your plants. The younger, tastier and more precious your plants the more likely they are to go for them. Young lettuce seedlings seem to be very tasty and a whole row can be devoured overnight by these innocuous critters.

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Tips to Avoid Mildew

Avoiding fungal disease is better than cure and this is very true of mildew

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Axis of Weevils – Garden Pests

Weevils can be garden pests but essential to the life cycle with thousands of beetle species

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Poisonous Plants in Your Garden

What is your poison? In the garden there are many things that are poisonous so take care

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Gall Midge Cures

Gall midges,  Cecidomyiidae or midge gnats often affect Hemerocallis or Day Lilies. Midges lay their eggs on the buds which then fail to develop. The problem is caused by the midge larvae which can be 3mm long. They drop onto the soil where they overwinter as pupae and start the problem next year. Infected buds [...]

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Wind Problems and Cures

Wind can damage and distort growing plants but you can provide some protection

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Ant Damage and Pest Control

Ants can be an unsightly nuisance and inspire concern. However they do not directly damage plants but are more a sign that you have another pest problem. Ants eat the honeydew secreted by aphids, scale insects and other pests. So ant go where there is food and are clever enough to farm aphids by carrying [...]

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