Pest Control

🫑 How to Deal with Small Holes in Pepper Leaves (Flea Beetles or Caterpillars)

🫑 How to Deal with Small Holes in Pepper Leaves (Flea Beetles or Caterpillars)

A gentle, intuitive approach to protecting your peppers without panicking 🌱 Introduction: Noticing the First Nibbles You walk out to your pepper plants, excited to check on their growth—and there it is. Tiny holes speckling the leaves. Not enough to ruin the plant, but enough to spark concern. Is it flea beetles? Caterpillars? Something worse?…

How to Deal with Squash Bugs and Hornworms: Rescue Your Garden Naturally

How to Deal with Squash Bugs and Hornworms: Rescue Your Garden Naturally

Early summer mornings in the garden often begin with quiet joy—coffee in hand, sunlight catching on dew-kissed leaves, and the promise of tomatoes ripening on the vine… until you notice a chewed leaf, a trail of droppings, or a wilted squash plant. Friend, I’ve been there. The first time I discovered hornworms on my heirloom…

Summer Fertilizing & Pest Control for Peppers and Tomatoes
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Summer Fertilizing & Pest Control for Peppers and Tomatoes

A No-Fuss Organic Guide for a Lush, Productive Garden If you’re anything like me, by mid-summer your tomatoes and peppers are loaded with flowers, bursting with green fruit—and attracting every bug in a five-mile radius. These heavy-feeders need just the right kind of support to keep producing through the heat, and a solid organic routine…

A vibrant photo collage of a garden filled with colorful vegetables, such as tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. Among the vegetables, there are common pests like aphids, whiteflies, and spider mites. There are also some healthy plants. The background is a serene garden setting. Over the collage, there is bold, playful text that says "Top 10 Garden Pests in Zone 9!". At the bottom, there is a footer that says "SouthernSoilSunshine.com". The design is simple, inviting, and harmonizes the visual message.

The Top 10 Most Common Vegetable Garden Pests in Zone 9 (And How to Deal With Them)

If you’ve ever stepped into your garden one morning and found your once-thriving plants riddled with holes, chewed-up leaves, or mysteriously wilting, you’re not alone. Gardening in Zone 9 is a dream—warm temperatures, long growing seasons, and an abundance of sun—but it also means pests thrive just as much as our plants do. Over the…