Sharing our Hothouse Skills no.2

A meeting of members interested in hothouses last winter was followed by a second session on the subject in the middle of summer. We looked at the host’s hothouse, and everyone had the opportunity to ask hothouse-related questions or discuss successes and failures in their hothouse. This blog post focuses on three topics that were discussed and that might be of interest.

Safe Pest Control - Step 3 and 4

Best-practice pest-control for food-gardeners involves six steps (in this order):

1. Make your food garden as healthy as possible 
2. Don’t please your pests 
3. Keep them out 
4. Catch and remove 
5. Is further action needed? 
6. Use a low-impact pesticide 

Step 3 and 4 are discussed below.