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1 min readnext year's pests are already moving in 🐛
Let's talk about the bugs you'll be seeing again next spring. You'd think a few hard freezes would take care of them. But plenty of garden pests are built to wait out winter right where they spent the summer: squash bugs under old vines, hornworm pupae tucked a few inches down in the tomato bed, cabbageworm chrysalises clinging to last year's broccoli stalks. That shiny brown thing? A hornworm pupa, waiting for your tomatoes to come back. I know, the obvious fix is to rake everything bare and...