Gardening: Protecting your pink hibiscus
As I mentioned in my last column, many pests can feed on hibiscus making this a very high maintenance choice for your landscape. Chewing insects include caterpillars, grasshoppers, snails and slugs, beetles, cut worms and leaf miners. Piercing-sucking insects include scale, mealybugs, spider mites, aphids, whiteflies and thrips. These pests are more of a problem in areas of poor circulation. The ...
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Martha Stewart: Potted citrus trees capture the sun for gloomy winter months
Your orange, lemon or lime tree can grow in a container, thriving indoors during cold-weather months before basking outside in spring and summer.
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Scary Food Facts: Beetle Eggs In Canned Asparagus? The FDA Says It's OK
Spending as much time as I do considering, cogitating and digesting food, it's no surprise that I've discovered a number of facts that would make a person seriously consider altogether abandoning the grocery store and opting for a life of self-subsistence, or, at the very least, pay closer, much closer attention to the ingredient list on their next edible purchase.
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