Vegetable

Listen to this podcast on how to control cabbageworm caterpillars in your garden   If you've ever grown broccoli, cabbage, kale, or cauliflower you know this insect. We've all experienced this. You're happily washing your head of broccoli or kale leaves when you come across a green caterpillar. Worse yet, if you miss them you end up having a little protein in your veggie dish. The cabbageworm, and related cabbage looper, are common insects that attack all the Brassica or broccoli-family crops. They start in early summer as a harmless...

Listen to this podcast on how to control cucumber beetles in the vegetable garden.   They're small, black and yellow and seem like they shouldn't be a problem in a vegetable garden. But they are! The cucumber beetle comes in two versions. The black and yellow striped or spotted species. Both cause damage to cucumbers, melons, and squashes by feeding on young transplants and seedlings and flowers and transmitting bacterial wilt disease to plants. For such a small insect, they can pack a wallop. To control them you should know a little...

Learn how to control squash bugs in the vegetable garden. Listen to Podcast: Podcast Transcript After having eaten enough straight necks, crooknecks, and patty pans and have played enough games of zucchini bowling and juggling to last a lifetime, I sometimes welcome insect attacks on squash. Yes, summer squash and zucchinis are prolific, but they do attract certain pests that can downright kill the plant. Let's talk about the big two: squash bugs and squash vine borers. Squash bugs are probably the most hated squash pest. These grey bugs...