Bugs Ate My Garden

...tter from one of our readers: “I just read the article on growing your own food. I have tried this but have had great difficulty with insect damage. I have tried some of the “natural” insecticides but they don’t seem to work very well. Two of the major problems I have are cutworms that snip off seedlings before they can get started, and a plague of small white snails which invade later in summer and devastate everything. I cannot use chemical pest...

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Saturday Tweets: Bikes and Bees

...itter.com/gDuy4LCYiM — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) June 29, 2016 Solar Food Dryer https://t.co/EeW5PblXpv — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 28, 2016 Cheap precision drill stand https://t.co/IYUIkuDrPx — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 28, 2016 Doctors issue warning about LED streetlights @CNN https://t.co/LQWxj6WPd2 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 28, 2016 Secretive Alphabet division aims to fix public transit in US by shifting control to Googl...

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