For people who want to grow more food with less work. 🌱 This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribers—here's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."
flea beetles. not a fan.
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Pssst... If you need to stock up on seeds, True Leaf Market has a massive overstock sale happening right now. Up to 61% off seeds! A few things you can get for just $1.99: Suyo Long cucumbers, Brad's Atomic Grape tomatoes, Tendersweet orange watermelons, Golden Marconi peppers, various types of pak choi, basil, zinnias, and more. For a while, I couldn't grow tomatillos because the leaves would be plagued with tons of tiny little holes or divots. Even worse were the tiny little pests that made them: beetles that were no more than a couple millimeters, with hind legs that allowed them to hop from plant to plant and do even more damage. Flea beetles are pretty frustrating to deal with in a garden because of how mobile they are. And when they come, they seem to come in droves. They especially like tomatillos, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, eggplant, kale, broccoli, cabbage, kohlrabi and, well, ANY plant that has leaves if food sources are scarce. So if you're tired of seeing your leaves all shot up with holes, making them extremely unappetizing or even destroying your crop altogether...
(Plus how to keep them from coming back next year! All without sprays.) Seasonal tipsLast week to order Egyptian walking onion seeds!Grow one of my favorite perennials, Egyptian walking onions, in your own garden. This is a staple crop for me because it's very hardy (and evergreen in mild winters), low-maintenance, pest- and disease-resistant, and delicious! I have a limited supply of organic seeds (which are actually bulbils, seen below) ready to plant now and available for shipping throughout the USA. The bulbils are harvested from my garden in Bend, Oregon. Summer-planted bulbils will give you green onions in fall, while fall-planted bulbils will establish roots and start growing in late winter/early spring.
​Read my growing guide here. (They're super easy to grow in USDA zones 3–10 and come back every year!) P.S. Don't let flea beetles ruin your garden. Here's how you can get rid of them and keep them from coming back.​ |
Garden Betty
For people who want to grow more food with less work. 🌱 This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribers—here's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."