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Controlling moles and gophers Q. Do you have any suggestions on how to get rid of the pesky, destructive gophers or moles. We have lost 3 fruit trees due to them. I have tried everything suggested by other... Last Modified: 2009-04-28 Number of views: 476 How To Eliminate Snails & Slugs From the Garden Q. Our garden has slugs! About the time the tomatoes started getting blossoms the slugs started feasting! I tried many methods to get rid of them - cornmeal in a jar, e... Last Modified: 2009-01-01 Number of views: 707 What to Plant Around the Garden to Discourage Animals Q.  What do I plant around the garden to keep animals out A.  Fast-growing tall hedges - about 10 years ago! Seriously, I don't know of anything - short of a... Last Modified: 2007-06-05 Number of views: 1437 Keeping Deer From the Garden Q.Short of erecting tall, electrified fences, how do I keep deer out of my garden? A.  The electricity isn't necessary, if you make the fence tall enough.  A dog i... Last Modified: 2006-05-22 Number of views: 2135 Soil Maggots in Onions - Control Q.  I have onion sets which have got nice green tops on them.  But underneath they are wet and rotting and have seen a small brown catapillar-looking creature on the... Last Modified: 2005-05-11 Number of views: 2578 Will Floods Bring Diseases, etc. to our garden? Q.    As you have probably read,  California received over 35 inches of rain this winter and as a result, our Community Gardens flooded and were under a fo... Last Modified: 2005-03-19 Number of views: 2022 Cutworms, Aphids, Moths, Hornworm, and Tomato Hornworm Q.  Can you give me the Pesticide Protocol from day one to harvest for leafy veggies, tomatoes, and corn.  We went to Johannesburg for a week.  When we retu... Last Modified: 2005-03-10 Number of views: 2559 Control of Phitopthora - "Late Blight" - a Crown and Root-Rot Disease. OR NOT! Much has been written, and much hand-wringing has been done trying to avoid, understand, and control the disease commonly known as Phitopthora, which often affects potatoes. ... Last Modified: 2005-02-11 Number of views: 2053 Preventing Diseases on Tomatoes - Late Blight, etc. - By Joanne Rice, Long Beach Community Garden Assn I read with interest Hein's e mail regarding early and late blight.  I have been involved in a large community garden in Long Beach, California for 22 years and pretty m... Last Modified: 2005-01-19 Number of views: 2448 Preventing Late Blight, etc. on Tomatoes and other Nightshades - by JOANNE RICE (2) You have my permission to use this information in any way that you see fit.Below is the write up that I made for our Board of Directors.  I have included a lot of questio... Last Modified: 2005-01-19 Number of views: 2340 Early and Late Blight on Tomatoes Early blight is an air and water dispursed fungus! It's got the beautiful name of Alternaria, and under the microscope it is a truly beautiful-looking fungus. Yet these ... Last Modified: 2005-01-10 Number of views: 2221 Round Brown Patches on Tomatoes (Blossom-End Rot) Q.  my tomatos this year are turning brown in round patches before ripening the weather has been damp is it a disease and what causes it? A.  I suspect what you're... Last Modified: 2004-09-09 Number of views: 2489 Eliminating Gophers Q. I'm distraught over what is happening to my garden and watching it occur in my neighbor's, as well.  For some reason, individual plants are dieing. One day they look... Last Modified: 2004-07-27 Number of views: 2689 Preventing and controlling Diseases in Your Garden There seem to be many questions about plant diseases; sometimes ones without marks on the leaves or other lesions.  Have any of you had bacterial diseases yet? ... Last Modified: 2004-07-26 Number of views: 2540 Best Alternative to Spraying for Bugs Q.  I never get very far before the bugs take over...I hate to spray what we are going to eat!  What can I do to avoid that?   A.  We don't like to... Last Modified: 2004-05-18 Number of views: 2548 Eliminate Mildew and Other Diseases Downy Mildew - Prevention and Control Q.  This winter I am growing cabbage, cauliflower, and broccoli in the same raised bed with a row cover. The cabbage and broccoli... Last Modified: 2004-01-19 Number of views: 2381 Controlling Pests in the Garden Controlling Pests in the Garden How can I learn to identify the insect pests that attack my garden, and what can I do to control or eliminate them? Pest control is ver... Last Modified: 2003-12-17 Number of views: 3039

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