Indoor plants do attract bugs, but those bugs are rarely harmful to humans, and relatively unintrusive to plants. Whether you’re growing seedlings indoors, on a windowsill, or under heat lamps,...
Category: Pests & Disease
Plants can both attract and deter mosquitoes, so choosing the right species for your garden is incredibly important. Thankfully, not all mosquitos are harmful to humans, and they rarely...
We actively support wildlife in our garden and encourage it on the allotment too. My friends assume that’s because I’ve got a soft spot for the little critters, and they’re not wrong, but...
There is no pest I hate more than the dreaded aphid. Greenfly or blackfly, this sap-sucking insect isn't welcome in any garden, but every single year it never spares mine. So I learned to just accept...
There's nothing more disheartening than starting your first spring vegetables - salad greens and all kinds of seedlings - and seeing them thrive, only to find them riddled with hundreds of tiny...
When we grew onions for the first time we didn't end up with the best results, because although this seemingly easy to grow vegetable comes in several different forms for gardeners to cultivate,...