Kerry’s Garden

This year I am going to be proactive where the squash vine borer are concerned. At least I hope I’m acting in time to be proactive. I saw an adult female hanging out near the zucchini today so tonight I gave all three a Bt treatment. It appears that the Bt Serenade fungicide is doing [...]

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I saw the first Japanese Beetle of the season today. The war begins again.

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One of my figs has a pretty good case of rust going. If I don’t do something I may end up losing it. So… while out looking for something as minimally toxic as possible I ran across Serenade. It’s active ingredient is Bacillus subtilis, a soil critter related to the critter responsible for the Bt [...]

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The blueberries are a bloomin’. Normally it is a little colder when the blueberries bloom. Rarely do I see any honey bees out yet but the yearly visit from my lone bumble bee should be starting up any time now. She can often be seen doing her best to pollinate the blueberries. I do everything [...]

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Several years ago a grad student at the University of Ky did some research on forecasting insect pest appearance by watching the development of flowering plants in the landscape. “Timing Control Actions for Landscape Insect Pests Using Flowering Plants as Indicators” came out of that research. In a nutshell he watched and recorded the pests’ [...]

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I have added a couple of new gardening books to my library that I thought I would share. I’ve mentionted Plant Propagation A to Z by Geoff Bryant here a couple of times in the past week or two. I had originally borrowed it from a local library and fell in love with it. It [...]

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Before tilling in all the leaves I harvested the rest of the Leeks I had planted this spring. Much to my disappointment (and disgust) they were infested with what appeared to be onion maggots. A small fly lays its eggs at the base of the plant and when you harvest instead of seeing roots you [...]

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