Garden Q&A: What to do about mosquitoes in the yard?
Mite feeding damage is called stippling, which is the fine flecking causing leaves to turn light yellow or greenish-white.
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Garden Q&A: What eats coneflower petals?
A wide variety of insects in midsummer can chew petals (and foliage), which include many species of beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, earwigs, and caterpillars
Garden Q&A: What colorful bug did I find?
Avoid handling them, as this and other species can produce defensive cyanide-containing secretions if they feel threatened from predators.
Garden Q&A: How do I grow wild bleeding-heart?
Often growing in rocky ground with acidic soil in the wild, this species doesn’t go summer-dormant the way the popular non-native bleeding-hearts do, but heat may hamper growth and pause...
Garden Q&A: What is damaging my goldenrod?
Don’t confuse them with the similarly-named, unrelated, larger and clear-winged lacewings, which are beneficial predators.
Garden Q&A: Why are my tomato leaves deformed?
If symptoms are mild and subtle, all you can do is wait to see if the plant outgrows the exposure, since nothing can remedy the damage.
Garden Q&A: Why did my cucumber plants wilt?
As the disease name implies, the first symptoms are the wilting of individual leaves, followed by longer sections of stem, then entire plants.
Garden Q&A: Who did I find during my garden clean-up?
I recommend shying away from garden clean-up regardless of timing because of the benefits that retaining leaf litter and other plant debris provides for wildlife.
Garden Q&A: How do I combat asparagus beetles?
Make sure any plant debris is removed from the bed at the end of the season, so the adult beetles have less shelter for overwintering. They may hide in leaf...
Garden: Why do I have to keep replanting Cardinal Flower?
Ruderal species tend to be short-lived. In the wild, ruderals germinate from the seed bank when conditions favor them and their colonization of a habitat that suddenly has less competition.