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pest management

Using a bugvac

A Passion for Insects

Holly Walker is a Plant Health Specialist at Smithsonian Gardens. I sat down to talk with her on November 27, 2017 about entomology, her background and some of her current undertakings with Smithsonian Gardens. Could you tell me about your role with Smithsonian Gardens? My title is Plant Health Specialist, but it’s a wide umbrella […]

Homemade pickles made from garden cucumbers grown & canned by the author of this story.

Harvest Fun

This year I grew cucumbers in my backyard garden. I put in three slicing cucumber plants and three pickling cucumbers. I found that it can be easy to miss seeing the lighter-colored pickling cukes sometimes so a few of them got quite fat! Picking was my solution for the abundant crop (including the fat ones). […]