Just like last year, my garden is once again being overrun with tiny grasshoppers! So far they haven’t decimated my crops nearly as badly as during the 2010 season when I planted 45 beans only to see not a single one [...read more]]]> http://www.media-organic.com/garlic-oil-spray/feed 1 http://www.media-organic.com/deer-found-my-cucumbers-and-tomatoes http://www.media-organic.com/deer-found-my-cucumbers-and-tomatoes#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:19:37 +0000 John http://www.media-organic.com/?p=1114 Went out to do my daily morning inventory of the garden and found that a deer had made a meal of the trailing cucumber vines and several of the ripening tomatoes. Normally, we don’t have much of a problem with deer, just a few nibbles here and there but no wide scale pillaging. But [...read more]]]> http://www.media-organic.com/deer-found-my-cucumbers-and-tomatoes/feed 1 http://www.media-organic.com/earwigs http://www.media-organic.com/earwigs#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:47:17 +0000 John http://www.media-organic.com/?p=991 So we went to pick our sole surviving cauliflower today and the damn thing is infested with earwigs. I mean an entire nest of the suckers. I pulled up the entire plant, started shaking it and it started raining earwigs. We then dunked the cauliflower in a bucket of water and more creatures floated [...read more]]]> http://www.media-organic.com/earwigs/feed 1 http://www.media-organic.com/japanese-beetles http://www.media-organic.com/japanese-beetles#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:47:35 +0000 John http://www.media-organic.com/?p=958 Well the beetles are back. Just look at what they did in a day to my poor eggplant. This season is truly turning into a battle royale between me and nature’s pests. Unfortunately, the pests are winning most of the battles.