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Pea Protection

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Christy

Last week we talked about how to grow peas. Ordinarily it’s easy as pie, but what do you
do when creatures of the night and/or sky make it their business to snatch up all your delicate sprouts before they have a chance to take hold in the soil? 

You build a fortress.

That’s what we did, anyway. We planted 3 rounds of peas, and each time they were plucked out by rats or birds, we can’t tell which. So …
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Bad Haircuts – the Cutworm Way

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Christy

People aren’t the only ones to suffer from a bad haircut every once in a while. Plants get them too. The only difference is that the garden stylist servicing
your plants is much less forgiving – in fact, the cutworm’s handiwork is usually fatal.

I’ve done a podcast about this already, but now I have pictures to go with it. So for those of you who haven’t seen a cutworm in action, this is for you.
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