What Eats Asparagus in Indiana, and When
No pest calendar sits behind this page, and inventing one would be worse than skipping it.
The Best Sweet Potatoes to Grow in Manitoba
In Manitoba, pick early-maturing, short-season sweet potatoes and give them a warm start under plastic or in a raised bed.
What Eats Carrot in South Dakota, and When
In a South Dakota garden, carrots lose more to the ground under them and the weather over them than most gardeners expect: forked roots in heavy soil…
When to Plant Sweet Potatoes in Maine
Plant sweet potato slips in Maine only after the last spring freeze has passed and the soil has warmed.
What Eats Carrot in South Carolina, and When
Nothing in the verified figures behind this page is a pest calendar, so it won’t hand you a list of insects and dates it can’t back up.
What Eats Carrot in Saskatchewan, and When
Mostly the ground and the weather, going by what this page can back up. Saskatchewan’s typical soil is forgiving to carrots, yet hard lumps, a hot…
What Eats Carrot in Rhode Island, and When
In Rhode Island, what ruins a carrot crop is more often the ground and the weather than anything with teeth: forked roots, seed that never comes up…
When to Pull Carrots in Montana, and How to Keep Them
Start checking carrots about 65 to 75 days after planting, the window Clemson Cooperative Extension gives, and keep counting toward 70 to 100 days from…
What Eats Onion in Tennessee, and When
Onion thrips are the insect most Tennessee growers end up fighting, and they arrive as the weather turns warm and dry, just when bulbs are swelling.
What Eats Pepper in Oregon, and When
In Oregon, the biggest threat to a pepper crop is usually weather, not bugs. At the Portland reference station the thermometer reaches 90 F or higher on…