The bugs have already begun to rear their ugly little heads in our small garden. Since chemically-laced pesticides are out of the question (and rightly so; they can infiltrate the water, stay in the soil for years to come, and worst of all, poison the bee population), it helps to know about plenty of alternatives for organic pest control.
Here's a thought: use plants to protect one another. As you plan your spring raised bed, container garden, or square-foot bed, use these tips to decide what goes where. Jump below for the link...
our seedlings were covered in aphids... until i caught some ladybugs and put them in my "greenhouse". it's so much fun to watch them crawl and munch aphids on my broccoli seedlings!
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Any idea how to keep chipmunks from eating my tomatoes?? I had 3 beautiful plants last summer and they day before I was going to pick them, the chipmunk would take out the good tomatoes. I even live on the 2nd story, and he'd climb up the stairs! I tried spraying the tomatoes with a water, hot pepper, soapy solution, but it didn't work.
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