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Vole damage in a yard or garden can be extensive. Moles can also do an incredible amount of damage to your yard and gardens as well. Actually moles and skunks will often tag team your yard. The moles attack it from the underside and the skunks attack it from above. Digging it up like a… Click here to read more…
If you have moles tunneling in your lawn and or skunks digging up your lawn, chances are your lawn is full of Japanese Beetle Grubs. And make no mistake about it, the grubs are silently destroying your lawn from the roots up. Japanese Beetle Grubs quietly feed on the roots of your lawn. You don’t… Click here to read more…
Skunks tend to live as close to a food source as possible, so be careful to not inadvertently provide food sources for them. Skunks eat insects, grubs, garbage, bird seed, fruit, vegetables and small mammals. In a residential area skunks usually make a home under a garden shed, in a wood pile, a rock pile… Click here to read more…
Most Spider Mites, especially the Two Spotted Spider mite love hot weather and dry conditions, so the race is on! Batten down the hatches and Katie bar the door, it’s Spider Mite season! Spider mites attack a variety of plants in your landscape including Burning Bush, Dwarf Alberta Spruce, Boxwood, almost all spruce varieties and… Click here to read more…
Farmers have been using methyl bromide since 1961, but in 1990 the Montreal Protocol mandated farmers to stop by 2005 because of its ozone destroying ways. Several government exemptions allowed farmers to continue using the fumigant, but these will all expire at the end of 2016. That sounds like a good thing — that farmers… Click here to read more…
Grasshoppers have been the bane of gardeners for centuries. These insects are responsible for consuming up to 25% of the available forage in the western half of the US each year. That’s a lot of food that could have been available to people and livestock. A heavy grasshopper infestation can reduce a garden to stubble… Click here to read more…
Nothing is more frustrating than watching all of the hard work you put into growing and nurturing your fruit or nut trees go to the birds! For years people have tried many methods to try and deter birds and other garden moochers from eating their crops. People have tried bird netting, sonic blasting, predator decoys… Click here to read more…
Earwigs are unwelcome guests in most everyone’s garden or home. Earwigs can damage your plants, but they rarely bite people. These ¾” long, reddish brown insects look particularly formidable, with their rear pincers and quick movements. Their name comes from an old European superstition that these nocturnal insects will crawl into the ears, and then… Click here to read more…
SLUGS…..YUCK!!! Who is chewing all those ragged holes in the leaves of your beautiful plants? It could very well be slugs or snails. Garden slugs like to hide in dark, moist places during the day, and at night they crawl out of their hidey holes to munch on your plants or ripening vegetables. The evidence… Click here to read more…
10 Plants that repel mosquitos You spend years planning and building your dream backyard patio. Then, as you sit enjoying your backyard, you hear the dreaded buzz of a mosquito as it zips past your ear. What’s a person to do? Do you run back inside your house in fear? No way! Take back your… Click here to read more…
