June is a month of Pests and Preventative Care

Plants

Our Plant Health Care Department team, Reese and Roy, are busy this month with spot spraying. Using only organic products, we aim to catch the pest at the proper time for best control. We often use a Neem oil product for this purpose. It’s time for various sawflies to emerge. Larvae feed voraciously on leaves. The azalea sawfly…

Insect Pests of May

Plants, Pumpkin Brook Organic Gardening Updates

Eastern Tent Caterpillar is often destructive to apples, crabapples and cotoneaster – all members of the Rose family. Reese, our Plant Health Care Manager, is on the lookout for telltale signs of this pest in the landscape and is prepared to spot spray with Bt, Bacillis thuringiensis, a selective insecticide approved for organic programs. You…