CORVALLIS — Freshly planted and carefully tended, vegetable gardens can quickly become a magnet for trouble. Problems seem to spring up overnight. Weeds, for instance, can overtake a garden in days.

Holes in kale leaves usually come from pests, diseases, or environmental stress, so identifying the cause is key. Common pests like cabbage worms, flea beetles, and slugs are often to blame for the ...

OK, so you’ve got your vegetable and flower transplants in the ground, their roots are reaching out into surrounding soil, and stems are starting to grow. Wait before you turn your back on them! A few ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Garden pests are a part of life in gardens. In the heat of mid-summer bugs reach peak populations and plants are often stressed out from the hot weather. It’s often a fatal ...

Do you know why ants never get sick? They have anty bodies. Ants are annoying if they get into the house or make their anthills in places we’d rather they wouldn’t, but they don’t cause many problems ...

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As our gardens grow, so do the appetites of certain garden pests. Every summer, it is the same old story, birds robbing the blueberry patch, mice gnawing on young zucchini, black, wormy tunnels ...