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Ready to just say no to crabgrass, and other lawn worries, without harming the soil (or your frogs, birds, pets, self)?
My turf got hammered by 650 pairs of visiting feet recently, and I already had a bumper crop of crabgrass, but I knew who to call. For almost a decade, I've turned with lawn-care issues to Paul Tukey, author of "The Organic Lawn Care Manual." Paul answered my (our!) pressing questions on my latest public-radio show: controlling crabgrass and other weeds; reversing compaction; overseeding, and does corn-gluten meal really work as a weed-and-feed? Read the interview, or listen in.
new to me: the cross-striped cabbage worm
Someone's suddenly eating holes in my Brussels sprouts plants, and it isn't the usual earlier-in-the-season suspects -- those fuzzy green cabbage worms I've written about before. My new visitors are apparently cross-striped cabbage worms, prolific egg-layers producing multiple generations a season. Oh, dear. Help with brassica pests.
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