The ladybugs are successfully reproducing on our mint plant. Oh frabjous day! The larvae are crawling all over the plant scarfing down aphid...

Most mornings I spritz the chocolate peppermint plant on our bedroom windowsill from a spray bottle of water. It loves to be damp. It is gro...

We now have enough ladybugs in our window plants that the aphids and white-flies won't last long. However keeping the predators concentr...

I like to have edible plants in the house. We have mint, basil and a Thai chili plant at the moment. We had oregano, but it didn't make ...

One of the wonderful things about gardening is the opportunity to meet the creatures in my yard. I was very pleased this spring to find an e...

Most anyone in the Northern Hemisphere who has put out a bird feeder has had the problem of dealing with squirrels raiding their feeder, spi...