INFEST - Garden Guide
How To Plant And Care For Geraniums
Geraniums have long been a popular plant for both outdoor and indoor use.The common geranium can be grown in beds or containers and will do well in either. The ivy leafed geranium is a natural for hanging planters. The Regal or...
A Guide To Mosquitos
Mosquitos are insects which survive by drinking mammalian blood. The general breeding ground for these tiny flying pests is swampy areas, and dirt infested zones. Any place in a filthy situation attracts mosquitos. In fact,...
An Herb Container Garden In Your Home
There are ways that you can spice up your cooking and thats by growing an Herb Container Garden. Nothing will enhance the flavor of your food like fresh herbs. Fresh herbs have intense flavor that makes even the plainest...
Controlling Aphids
Aphids are an insect with a soft body that utilizes their mouthparts to pierce and suck the sap from plants. These colonies of insects can usually be found on the underside of newly growing terminal growth. If a leaf becomes...
Spruce Budworm
Spruce budworm is a very serious pest in our area and can be found in all species of spruce. The adult moths will lay their eggs in July and early August. These adults will lay approximately 100-150 eggs in a cluster pattern....
Some Thoughts On Planting Roses
Although all kinds of gardening is my passion in life, nothing but nothing gives me greater pleasure than my beautiful rose garden. They are just so stunning, and I do really love the colors and the amazing varieties which are...
Blacklisted Items to Keep Out of Your Compost
Believe it or not, there are a lot of people out there who want to compost but don't know what exactly they're allowed to put into their batches. Some even think that since it's their pile of compost, they're at liberty to put...
Pruning Hibiscus
Hibiscus plants should be pruned occasionally, which is usually done in the spring. Regularly pruning these plants will make better shaped plants, as well as cause the branching and blooming of the flowers to increase....
Tissue Culture Applications To Improve Crops of Strawberries, Raspberries, and Blackberries
When agricultural crops are reproduced by division after several generations, frequently a decline occurs in qualities such as vigor, yield, disease resistance, plant and fruit appearance and uniformity of size or shape. This...
How Can You Stop Animal Damage In Its Tracks?
Animal Damage Control is a recent addition of services to property owners who are experiencing wildlife damage to their homes or commercial properties.Animals can do serious damage to homes and commercial structures as well as...
Birch Leaf Miner
Appearance:Generally speaking the first most obvious sign of this pest is browning and wilting of the foliage on your birch tree. The larvae cause this discolouration and distortion by feeding that make tunnels within the...
Get Rid of Yellow Jackets
A common problem for those who enjoy going outdoors (and who doesnt), yellow jackets strike when youre looking somewhere else, leaving a stinging pain that you wont soon forget. Yellow jacket nests on your property can be...
Composting for Beginners - Do's and Don'ts, Bins and Tumblers
Lots of novice gardeners believe that their plants and vegetables only need plenty of water and sunlight in order to sustain a healthy and fruitful lifespan. However this is not entirely true as plants also need healthy soil...
Tips For Growing A Beautiful Vegetable Garden
A vegetable garden is becoming a long lost art as land continues to diminish in the wake of growing and connecting communities. But it still remains true that a purchased vegetable never tastes the same as one grown in man's...
How To Get Rid Of Ants
Ants belong to the group of insects the same as the wasps and bees. There are sterile female workers and productive males (drones) and females (queens). Ants colonies are sometimes thought to be super organisms because the...
Taking Care of Your Bonsai
Bonsai is the art of growing trees that are of tiny-stature, within the household premises. The word Bonsai is basically a Chinese term, which denotes a shrub or a tree planted in a shallow tray. It plays an important role by...
Fire Ants
Fire ants are considered a notorious pest and can sometimes be life threatening. Two main species of fire ants, namely black imported solenopsis rchteri gorel and red ants solenopsis invicta buren are responsible for causing...
Five Common Orchid Pests
Insects and their relatives cause most of the problems for orchid growers. Some of them can even transmit diseases from one plant to another. This article will discuss five of the most common orchid pests.AphidsAphids a
Caring For Wild Roses
Wild roses are source of all other rose species. They are found in the wild, hence their namewild roses. They have small single flowers with usually five petals. These are normally not pruned, but it is during the early stage...
Tips For The Rose Gardener
Rose gardens are probably the most popular type of garden in the world, ranging from Marie Antoinettes famous gardens before the French revolution to a few shrubs tucked in a tiny backyard. With their wonderful scents and...