Pest Corner

Pest Corner is the title of a series of gardening articles which appear in the Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties Master Gardener Newsletter. They are adapted from articles written by Don Tapio, Area Extension Agent for Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

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The Pest Corner articles cover a variety of subjects, from lawn care to fertilizers to specific insect and disease pests and are filled with suggestions and tips for gardening successfully in our area. Almost all gardeners can benefit from reading the information contained on these pages.

Below is a list of the individual Pest Corner articles. They are stored in PDF format, which is easy to view and print. (If you cannot read these PDF files, click on this link to get the latest free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader)

DateSubjects
March, 2009Moles, Scale and Pruning.
February, 2009Understanding Plant’s Winter Injury.
December, 2008Gardening Holiday Stocking.
October, 2008Preventing Rot While Storing Home-Grown Fruit.
August, 2008Tomato Growing Notes.
July, 2008Fertilizing, Surface Tree Roots, and Prune Spring Blooming Shrubs.
June, 2008Scotch Broom, horsetails, and vegetable garden pointers.
May, 2008The How’s about Fungicides, and Insecticidal Soaps.
April, 2008Great Plant Picks.
March, 2008Holes in your garden, beneficial nematodes, insecticidal soaps.
February, 2008Renovating old fruit trees and lilacs.
DateSubjects
December, 2007Poinsettia care, Norfolk Island Pine.
November, 2007Fall Planting, Insects in Firewood, Mushrooms, and Moss in Lawns.
October, 2007Fall garden notes.
September, 2007Berry safety, tomato ripening, powdery mildew.
August, 2007Heat damage, mulches, weed prevention, tomato notes.
July, 2007Lawn & water, growing potatos and tomatos, potato and tomato late blight.
June, 2007Manures, Rhododendron deadheading, and root weevils.
May, 2007Moles, Photinia hedges, plants to nourish beneficial insects, and Dicyphus.
April, 2007Tips for reducing garden insect pests naturally.
March, 2007Pesticide use.
February, 2007Rethinking old gardening habits.
December, 2006Internet resources.
November, 2006Pest Corner in a reading mood.
October, 2006Mushrooms, weed management, and making apple cider.
September, 2006Yellowjackets.
August, 2006Spiders.
July, 2006Cabbage maggot, horsetail, and bolting.
June, 2006Scotch Broom and Spruce Aphids.
May, 2006Phenology, Creeping Speedwell, conifer pests, pruning questions, and sawdust as a garden amendment.
March, 2006Lawn problems.
February, 2006Selecting fruit trees and planting bare-root trees.
January, 2006Pruning young ornamental trees.
Date Subjects
December, 2005 Poisonous Christmas plants, container plants in winter, and roof moss control.
October, 2005 Crane flies, watercore in apples, and Ladybird Beetles.
September, 2005 Banded Alder Borer, yellow jackets, and fall webworms.
August, 2005 Caring for strawberries, caring for berry crops after harvest, and tomato problems.
July, 2005 Fungicides.
May, 2005 Cooley Spruce Gall Adelgids, sap-sucking pests, Sooty Mold, insecticidal soaps, and attracting beneficial predators.
April, 2005 Apple Scab, earwigs, moles, and Western Tent Caterpillars.
March, 2005 Slugs, moss, algae, and lichen.
February, 2005 Corticum Red Thread, Silver Spotted Tiger Moth, and Spruce Aphid.
January, 2005 Slugs.
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