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Practicing integrated pest management

Columnists | Mon, 07/27/2009 - 4:04 pm | Updated 2 years 28 weeks ago | Read 1491 | Commented 1 | Emailed 1
Tags: Gardening Adventures, Hamilton

By Craig Dupée

Two months ago, I was walking the garden with my daughter observing the flowers that were growing when she noticed that one of the taller flowering plants was covered with aphids.

Every inch of stem was covered with the tiny insects sucking the juice out of the plant. The plant was Heliopsis helianthoides, or Summer Sun,’ which grows about two feet tall and has bright yellow flowers in midsummer.

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Wed, 03/10/2010 - 12:06pm - Posted by: Anonymous

Hello Mr. Craig, I hope your remember me. I was trying to find the pictures from your old Web site and a found it's no more in the Web, but the article of the pest management is very good. I'm in Mexico with my family and there is pest too. I don't like to use quimical so what I use is soap in water is very effective. It was nice find something about you. I never had the chance of say thanks for everything I learn from you. Eduardo Ruiz, Mexico March 2010