Tobacco Hornworm

A tobacco hornworm ravaging one of my pepper plants. A comparison of my two pepper plants, one that had hornworms and one that did not, shows that the plant damaged by the hornworms yielded a mere 5 peppers, while the plant without hornworms yielded 14 peppers. Clearly, this illustrates the importance of catching these leaf munchers early on in the season. August 2016.

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Blueberry - Container Gardening

I planted 10 blueberry bushes (four or five different varieties) a couple of years ago and now, with little effort at all, they provide a daily supply of healthy blue orbs. I had tried growing blueberry bushes at home in the ground for many years without success. The soil pH was never quite right and the soils were too poorly drained due to the high clay content. Frustrated but not defeated,  I gave whisky barrels a shot and found that it is much easier to amend the soil and keep the blueberries happy in containers. It also proved much easier to relocate the berries this spring when I moved them to a sunnier location.