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Simple Fall Chores To Avoid Bugs In Next Year’s Garden

Simple Fall Chores To Avoid Bugs In Next Year’s Garden

As the season comes to a close for many gardeners in North America, you may be thinking of some much-deserved “time off” from your garden. After all, you’ve spent the last few months caring for plants and probably battling a ...

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Natural Japanese Beetle Repellants For Your Garden

Natural Japanese Beetle Repellants For Your Garden

One of the biggest horrors for a gardener to face is to come out one morning and see your vegetable plants and roses stripped into scraggly skeletons. The culprit of such disasters often is the Japanese beetle, or Popillia Japonica. ...

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All-Natural Tricks To Rid Your Yard Of Insects

All-Natural Tricks To Rid Your Yard Of Insects

The outdoors is a great place to be, but the enjoyment quickly can turn to annoyance when the bugs find you. Flies and mosquitoes not only deliver a painful bite but can also expose you to disease. You could douse ...

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Time-Tested Essential Oils That Insects Simply Hate

Time-Tested Essential Oils That Insects Simply Hate

  Insect bites can put a damper on even the most beautiful spring and summer night. Unfortunately, so can the intense aroma and harmful effects of insect repellents. Thankfully, there are essential oils that repel insects, allowing you to enjoy ...

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5 Herbs That Mosquitoes Absolutely, Positively Despise

5 Herbs That Mosquitoes Absolutely, Positively Despise

  Summer is here, and that brings one unfortunate type of creature: bugs. Mosquitoes and fleas, and other bugs and insects, can become a real annoyance and ruin anyone’s outdoor fun. But there is an all-natural way to fight back ...

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Troubleshooting All Of Your Tomato Problems

Troubleshooting All Of Your Tomato Problems

We love our tomatoes, those round, colorful gifts from heaven. We stew them, crush them, can them and sauce them. Tomatoes are easy and fun to grow, but like every plant in the garden they can get diseases and become ...

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5 All-Natural Mosquito Repellents You Can Easily Make At Home

5 All-Natural Mosquito Repellents You Can Easily Make At Home

It is that time of year when pesky mosquitoes, clinging ticks and other insects start to become a nuisance. We all try to find more natural ways to be environmentally friendly but still keep those bothersome bugs away from us. ...

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8 Garden Flowers That Chase Away Vegetable-Eating Bugs

8 Garden Flowers That Chase Away Vegetable-Eating Bugs

It’s no secret that I love to spend time planning, planting, tending to and harvesting from my vegetable garden. My husband, on the other hand, would rather see colorful flowers adorning our backyard than something you would typically throw into ...

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3 Bugs You Could — And Should — Be Eating

3 Bugs You Could — And Should — Be Eating

In many countries around the world, bugs are a featured item on the daily menu. Not only that, but in some cultures they are considered a delicacy. In the Bible, we learn that John the Baptist enjoyed a steady diet ...

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