Several years ago a friend gave me hops plants, encouraging me to grow them, not because I love beer, but because I love bugs. Each year, she assured me, her bines are crawling with ladybugs and lacewings feasting on the aphids that load the leaves. The prospect of such a scenario won me over, and [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Year of the aphid
Posted in Bad bugs, icky diseases, and operator error, tagged Aphid, beneficial insects, Insect, Insecticidal soap, Plant on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Vegetables guard turf
Posted in Lawns, Vegetables and fruit, tagged Brown Patch, Eden Prairie, Grant Davisson, Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota Vikings, turf, Vegetable, vegetables on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post can be heard on the public radio show Crop to Cuisine, hosted by Dov Hirsch. On the outskirts of Minneapolis, in a town called Eden Prairie, a vegetable patch is growing. This is not an average kitchen garden; the corn, beans, melons and tomatoes have a mission greater than feeding their gardener. Instead [...]
