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photo of a lawn in Wisc with damage from pests and other animals

Photo Of The Week: Patch of Dirt Formerly Known as Lawn

This is a photo of my brother-in-law David’s lawn, that I took on April 18th. “Lawn” is perhaps an overstatement. Maybe “Patch of Dirt Formerly Known as Lawn.” The lawn in question resides in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on sandy soil…

Japanese Beetle

Introduction to “Pests” and their Prevention and Treatment

One of the hottest, most emotionally charged topics in the gardening world is the use of pesticides, the umbrella term for herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and the like (“cide” meaning “killing”). Washington Post writer Joel Lerner recently noted that there are…

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