My daughter just went out to her garden and found all her basil seedlings snipped off and left. Not eaten and not even wilted yet.
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Three gardening books for children
November 18, 2008 – Posted in: Book reviews, Fruit, Pests, Plagues, and Varmints, Seeds and Seed Starting, VegetablesMany gardening books for children take what I think of as the art project approach: here's what you need, this is what you do, isn't that cute?, now show it to Grandma. Very few books out there take children--or a child's interest in gardening--seriously. I prefer to regard children as apprentice gardeners, gradually acquiring more [...]
Mike Cherim of Green Methods: Ensuring that good bugs rule!
November 8, 2007 – Posted in: Interviews, Pests, Plagues, and VarmintsNew Hampshire resident Mike Cherim is in the business of putting bad bugs out of business. I first contacted Mike because he offers a very secure contact form for WordPress. I later used his theme for my Blogging Art and Practice site. Then I discovered that before he started designing websites, he sold--and continues to [...]
The brown marmorated stink bug
March 11, 2007 – Posted in: Native/Invasive, Pests, Plagues, and VarmintsOne thing about an old house, there are lots of nooks and crannies for creatures to find their way in. It's a fact of life. Call it sharing habitat. While we try to minimize it, there is no way we can keep everything out, especially since our house is on a stacked stone foundation and [...]
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