1 Snails: Snails have ravenous appetites, and they’re nocturnal, so you might not notice their feeding until your crops are spoiled. Who would suspect that they climb citrus and stone fruit trees to ...

1 Reduce the number of earwigs or “pincher bugs” in your garden by putting tuna-type cans into the ground with the rim at soil level. Then fill the cans half full with vegetable oil. The earwigs will ...

Cymbidiums will quickly outgrow the pots they've been supplied in. To keep them in good shape it's a good idea to divide pots up every three or four years, which will give you lots of new plants. The ...

Cymbidium orchids are very rewarding, they're easy to grow and they produce beautiful flowers. But, over the years, their pots get really congested with bulbs and that limits flowering and also ...

Pat Welsh doesn’t only have one green thumb. With more than 80 years gardening experience, every finger of the longtime Del Mar resident is green. Welsh will teach community members how to select, ...

Even though the initial investment is a bit steep, it's actually much more economical than buying a bunch of cut flowers every week, thanks to their long flowering time. And they will flower again ...