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Plant dill to attract ladybugs and other beneficial insects to your garden.

In the Garden: Visitors with Four to Eight Legs

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We’re going to plant dill. Want to know why? SIX LEGS Dill attracts lots of beneficial insects to your garden. For instance, dill brings in ladybugs, green lacewings, braconid wasps, tachinid flies, hoverflies, mealybug destroyers, and aphid midges. By planting Read more…

April 23, 2019

Build a bee hotel as simple or as elaborate as you wish to help attract native bees to pollinate your garden. Native bees are solitary but communal. They will live in close proximity but prefer their own space for nesting.

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Basics of Building a Bee Hotel for Native Species

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Suzanne Freeman

Unlike honeybees, native bees are solitary. The female bees lay their eggs in holes in trees and wood or in the ground. You can attract more native bees to your garden by building a bee hotel to make finding a Read more…

April 9, 2019

Native bumblebees are attracted to bluebonnets. The largest of the bees, bumblebees are buzz pollinators. Their wings beat 130 times more per second than other pollinators, vibrating flowers until they release pollen. Plants produce more fruit through buzz pollination, according to the National Wildlife Federation. That’s why tomato growers prefer bumblebees.

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Native Bees Are Bluebonnets’ Best Buds

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Suzanne Freeman

Mason bees love bluebonnets, depending on them for nectar and nourishment. The bluebonnets are just as dependent on these native Central Texas bees for their own existence. In fact, this particular species of bee hatches each year just in time Read more…

April 9, 2019

The best-tasting tomatoes are picked just when they ripen into a bright red. To beat the bugs to the reward, however, gardeners might need to pick when the skin begins to turn from green to pink. Ripen on a windowsill or your kitchen counter.

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The Secret to Growing Sensational Tomatoes

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Suzanne Freeman

Green thumbs aren’t necessary to produce juicy, delicious tomatoes, according to Ricky Lane, Master Gardener and project manager of The Helping Center of Marble Falls garden. Anyone who follows Lane’s simple guidelines for growing in the Hill Country heat can Read more…

April 8, 2019

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In the Garden: Bluebonnets and Grasshoppers, the Pros and Cons of Spring

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Whoo-hoo! The pecan leaves are coming out, and the scissortails are arriving. Spring has officially sprung. GRASSHOPPERS Begin the vigil for grasshoppers. We are getting close to the critical time of the first hatch. You can see them when you Read more…

March 28, 2019

Lawn and Garden

In the Garden: Visitors with Four to Eight Legs

Basics of Building a Bee Hotel for Native Species

Native Bees Are Bluebonnets’ Best Buds

The Secret to Growing Sensational Tomatoes

In the Garden: Bluebonnets and Grasshoppers, the Pros and Cons of Spring

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