Who Are The Good Bugs?

As I was listening to a gardening radio show the moderator answered someones question about garden spiders, which tend to be prolific in the garden during the late summer. As he put it, they are fattening up for the leaner winter season, but that makes them “the good guys”, eating up insects destructive to the garden. So, besides garden spiders …just who are the good guys among the creepy...

Encouraging the Honeybees: Making a Bee Garden

The honeybee populations of the USA have been drastically diminishing [Learn about Colony Collapse Disorder], and though no one knows exactly why, one factor is less foraging. We gardeners can do something about that! It is really important that you never use pesticides in your bee garden. They poison bees. Starvation is currently considered to be the leading cause of bee mortality.[1] So What Do Bees Like? early...

Butterfly Garden, Make Your Yard A Destination

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly gardens are simply a collection of plants, butterfly friendly methods, and the addition of a few special features. Anyone can have one in any size space. The magic begins when the butterflies discover it, and come.Butterfly gardens aren’t perfect gardens… they have some plants that you might otherwise ignore, some with holes in the leaves from being a host plant and having...