In the Garden
Text Box: Daytime temperatures over 80°! Sunny skies! Flowers, vegetables, fruit! It seems that summer has finally arrived. In this issue of In the Garden you’ll find: A primer on drip irrigation—after last month’s article on water-wise gardening, we received questions about how best to water using drip Text Box: irrigation An article about hitting the “reset button” on your garden All you could want to know about aphids, how to control them, and the use of beneficial / predatory insects in the garden A description of an old bee balm that may be new to you How best to benefit from Text Box: summer plant sales What to do in the August garden Editors Monica Hemingway Kirsten Clark Please email us at info@thegardenerslist.com—we’d love to hear from you. Text Box: Summer Has Finally Arrived! Text Box: There are lots of decent slug treatments out there but two we have found work quite well are egg shells and coffee grounds. Slugs hate to slither over anything sharp and crushed up spent egg shells work well in keeping them at bay. Crush up your shells so they have lots of little sharp corners and sprinkle around your favorite or most slug-riddled plants. If you eat lots of eggs or can get shells from neighbors, create a circle of Text Box: them around the perimeter of your garden beds. Caffeine, in concentrations of 1% or greater, is toxic to slugs. Coffee grounds contain about ½% caffeine so, while it won’t kill slugs outright, it does repel them quite effectively. Simply save your used coffee grounds and, instead of adding them to your compost pile, spread them around your plants. Cocoa bean hulls, used as a mulch, can also protect your plants from slug damage. Text Box: Text Box: Dig This – Kitchen Slug Control

The Gardeners' List
Text Box: July 2009 Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 5

Dig This…

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Wet Spring = Happy Aphids

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Beneficial Insects—To Buy or Not to Buy?

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Favorite Plants—’Snow White’ Monarda

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In the August Garden

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Summer Sales—Buyer Beware?

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A Primer on Drip Irrigation

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Reset Gardening

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