So as much as we’ve had some garden friends, we’ve also had our share of bad luck. Garden pests always try to screw up our gardens!
In our garden, we often battle with quite a few garden ‘frenemies’ and outright pests…
Gardening would be so much easier without these insects, rodents, and wild critters interfering.
This section of the site will bring you tips on dealing with various garden pests. We’ll share tips for preventing and dealing with pests as well as gardening product suggestions to help your garden thrive despite the critters!
We are still exploring ways to peacefully coexist or to “deal with” these pests and pesky creatures. Stay tuned for our adventures here!
Imagine finding one of the most toxic plants in the United States in your own backyard! That’s what happened to us when we found a suspicious weed that looked like a wild carrot. Thankfully, we knew not to eat it, and I quickly learned how to remove poison hemlock to protect our family. Deadly poison…
Over the past decade, if that, spotted lanternflies have become a real problem for vineyards, orchards, and even backyard gardeners. The spotted lanternfly especially loves to attack your grapevines and fruit plants. We’ve done our part to kill spotted lanternflies on sight. I am not joking when I tell you, I am a legit flipflop…
Although our website’s name is Bunny’s Garden, it’s not because we grow the garden for the bunnies. Instead, it’s a fond nickname my daughter and I share. Although we love them, finding bunnies in the garden is not the goal. Rabbit damage may begin as a few missing leaves or disappearing plants. Some plants may…
Imagine a blissful tomato jungle as far as the eye can see. Then suddenly, your favorite tomato plant is half gone! What gives?! The tomato horn worm can do serious damage to tomatoes in the garden, so be sure to act fast! Tomato hornworms are the biggest caterpillars I’ve ever seen in my garden. They…
If you read my blog, you know we struggle with groundhogs and bunnies in the garden. Ironic, isn’t it? (: Well, it’s also very frustrating, so I’ve finally come up with a solution – DIY raised garden stake fence barriers that fit perfectly and use food-safe materials. I *know* I can’t possibly be the only…
If you aren’t careful, birds will eat your blueberries in the summer and all the woodland animals will eat the young branches and leaves over the winter. For this reason, I highly recommend blueberry netting or blueberry bush covers to protect your precious berries! Even if you aren’t a big time berry orchard, blueberry covers…
Do you ever find cucumber leaves turning yellow and wonder what’s going on? I recently discovered the culprit is cucumber beetles. And, by the time you see these nasty cucumber bugs and figure it out, it’s almost always too late. (Super sorry you had to find out this way – but join the crusade to…
Pretty much every year, we find a groundhog in my yard. It’s pretty irritating, actually, to deal with this groundhog eating garden plants when you’re just trying to grow something, for crying out loud. I need to figure out how to get rid of groundhogs stat. The big ole groundhog garden pest is one of…
Few things are as frustrating as audacious animals eating your garden! Believe me, I know. I’ve tried to round up a list of deer resistant annuals (flowers, mostly) that you can try in the garden, but keep in mind, a hungry deer is probably not going to turn its nose up at your garden, though….
Are birds eating your garden? Birds are lovely to see in the yard, but sometimes they damage plants or eat whatever you’re growing – especially berries. Find out how to keep birds out of garden beds and containers to take back your garden and all its bounty! Keeping birds out of the garden can help…