by Stephanie Suesan Smith | May 13, 2011 | Black berries
Dewberry flower There are wild berries in my area that the locals call dewberries. They look and taste like small blackberries. I always thought they were just wild blackberries. It turns out there are some differences between the two. Dewberries...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | May 11, 2011 | weed control
Vegetable garden, herb garden on the Kirchberg plateau, Reinhausen (Gleichen) One of the biggest frustrations in a garden is how fast grass can invade and take over. This is especially true in a new garden when you have just tilled the existing grass under and...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | May 9, 2011 | entomology
Asian Tiger Mosquito Image by WikiImages from Pixabay The picture I grew up with of mosquito control is of a slow-moving vehicle spraying poison out the back while children ran along behind and played in the spray. This does not exactly conform to best practices for...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | May 6, 2011 | weed control
Vegetable garden, herb garden on the Kirchberg plateau, Reinhausen (Gleichen) Nemracc, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons If you have weeds in your garden, they generally fall into three categories: grasses, broadleaf...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | May 4, 2011 | weed control
Weeds in a garden of Purple Cabbage by Max Pixel One of the things I spend a lot of time doing every spring and summer is identifying weeds for people. Now, a weed is just a plant that is growing where it is not wanted. Sometimes, though, it has to go, and until you...
