by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Feb 19, 2015 | entomology
Did you know that one out of every three bites of food we eat is pollinated by a bee? When we think of bees, we think of European honey bees. However, there are over 4,000 species of native bees in this country. One of the most important native bees...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Feb 12, 2015 | gardening101
Ladybug larva Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons One of the ways to reduce pesticide use in your garden is to attract beneficial insects to it. These insects keep the bad bugs in check. A good way to do...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Dec 3, 2010 | gardening101
Napa Cabbage Do you evaluate your vegetable garden each year? How does it do? I don’t mean if it is an A student, but how does the amount of work put into the garden balance out with the amount of produce that comes out of the garden. Since most people plan...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Nov 15, 2010 | beans
There are lots of kinds of beans, but green beans are a good example of how to grow the whole family of beans. There are bush beans, which are similar to little shrubs, and pole beans, which are like ivy and need poles for support. You can grow both kinds...
by Stephanie Suesan Smith | Nov 11, 2010 | turnips
Turnips are a two-for-one vegetable. You can grow them for their tops, which you eat like spinach, or for the turnip itself, or both. In any case, turnips are cool-season crops. In my part of Texas, they are planted around the first of February or in the fall, when...
