bad insects

Who Goes There?

08.31.2011 Garden Insects
tomato hornworm

As you may have read in this post we are trying to encourage a diverse community of insects in our garden. We have introduced a few of them to you in this post, and this one. As I was taking out the tomatoes for garden A to make room for delicious salad greens, I found this [...]

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Party Crasher(s)

06.26.2011 Garden Insects
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Someone else is enjoying our kohlrabi before it’s even ready. Talk about impatient. To make matters worse he’s invited his future kids (yeah, those yellow things are eggs). Kohlrabi is a brassica, a genus of plant that includes broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, arugula, chard, kale, radishes, and about 60% of what most people, including us grow [...]

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Bugging out

06.09.2011 Garden Insects

In our third year of gardening one of the things we’re taking an increasing amount of pride in is our ability to create a rich and varied ecosystem within our gardens. This year we’ve already seen our fair share of butterflies, moths, and bees (see the post about gardenfreude’s mascot here). We’ve made a very [...]

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