Amor de La Tierra Garden Club

04/02/2023

02/22/2023

02/17/2023

NEW PUBLICATION!! ⬇️ INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM) FOR SQUASH BUG FOR HOME GARDENS AND SMALL-SCALE GROWERS (http://bit.ly/3Ir0mMw): For over 120 years, farmers and home gardeners have been battling the squash bug (Anasa tristis), a major economic pest of cucurbits (e.g., squash, pumpkins, gourds, cucumbers, melons, etc.) in New Mexico. Adult and nymph (immature stage) squash bugs damage plants through feeding and vectoring (transmitting) plant pathogens, which results in yield declines and plant death. Squash bugs are resilient and can reproduce in large numbers that can quickly overwhelm a production system or garden. This short guide outlines best management practices that producers and home gardeners can adopt for squash bug integrated pest management (IPM).

(Photo of an Adult squash bug laying eggs on a squash leaf by Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org).

01/30/2023

Companion planting is an age old way of recognizing how plant communities live with affinity or aversion between families and species. As time goes on, the chemistry of plants and science help us understand what many of these time tested methods are based in. What companion planting methods do your practice? *(click on image and expand it for ease of reading)