To maintain a pest-free environment indoors, it's important to learn how to keep bugs out of the house. Not only do they create unsanitary conditions, but they're also just plain annoying, from the buzz of a fly to the itchy bite of the mosquito. Bees, wasps and scorpions can caus...
if left unchecked, stinkbugs can cause significant damage to any garden. Most damage occurs to juicy vegetables and fruit once the protective skin is broken. Since young take about three months to mature, they’re generally old enough to mate in the beginning of summer and so another batch ...
Thrips are a common pest on both outdoor and indoor plants. Because they are tiny and multiply rapidly, thrips can go undetected until a serious infestation is already underway. Here’s how to get rid of thrips on your house or garden plants.
A bug zapper could be an easy solution for outdoor bugs on your patio. If your patio seems to be infested, you can try strategically to position a bug zapper to take care of the bug population. Note that this rarely gets rid of the problem. ...
In most areas, you can sow seeds indoors in February-March for a spring planting and again in July-August for a fall planting. Use your last frost date, and count 2 to 4 weeks for direct sowing, or 4 to 6 weeks for indoor sowing. Regardless of when you sow indoors, start with the...
You can plant various flowers to attract beneficial insects that are natural predators of thrips. Some good predators include pirate bugs, lacewings, and ladybugs. Learn more aboutattracting those predators. For onion and western flower thrips, try releasing minute pirate bugs or the predatory miteAm...
part of growing lime trees is their cold sensitivity. If you try to grow them outdoors in places like Pennsylvania or Colorado, you’ll watch them quickly succumb to winter temperatures. However, before you write off growing one of these trees at home,consider growing them in a pot indoors!
Sow seed 4 to 6 weeks before the average date of the last frost in spring for a late spring crop. Germination will occur in 4 to 19 days at 75°F. Sow seed directly in the garden; young seedlings started indoors and transplanted into the garden may be shocked into bolting to seed....
There are many ways to group or classify the varieties of cabbage: One way to group cabbage is to classify them by harvest time–early season, mid-season, and late season. Early varieties are generally started indoors for a 2 to 3-week head start on the season; mid- and late-season ...
Direct seed or transplant kale into the garden so that it comes to harvest before daytime temperatures exceed 80°F (26°C). Soil temperature must be at least 40°F for good germination of kale seeds. Start kale transplants indoors 6 to 8 weeks before the time you want to set them in...