Archive for the 'Pesticides' Category

23 Jun

After many an attempt, the simplest of solutions has worked in getting rid of an unwelcome guest at my hummingbird feeder.  I’m sure you don’t need a picture to guess who these guests were.  I had tried everything to get rid of the ants that were climbing down the wire from which our feeder hangs…off [...]

26 May

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of SaferBrand. All opinions are 100% mine. I know, that sounds completely nuts, but I have been so anxious to test a bug spray for organic gardeners, that I am EXCITED about the fact that there are aphids on my roses.  Even though the plants [...]

03 Aug

Before I talk about this special, let me inform you that this post was sponsored by Kmart. However, all the opinions are mine. But I don’t need that to motivate me to tell you about the good deals you can find at Kmart, I have shopped there for years, and remember Kmart Bluelight Specials of the past, [...]

05 Jul

This weekend has been a battle with the little insects that think of my plants and flowers as delicacies.  We have had a very wet spring and early summer, so the slugs are thriving and the mosquitoes are biting.  I thought we were doing a pretty good job keeping up with these little critters, and [...]

16 Apr

Sometimes when you’ve been working a blog for a while, great posts get lost at the “bottom of the blog”, and need revisiting, so with gardening season arriving for some of us, and always around for other lucky readers, I thought I’d point out a few helpful posts: Gardening in Containers – this post contained [...]