Our Garden Journey

If you have stumbled upon our humble blog please be advised. We are not expert gardeners nor would we ever claim to be. We are novices, newbies, wannabes. Call us what you will, but we are just some folks trying to find a better way to feed ourselves that honors the origin of that food and really enjoying the discoveries we find along the way. This is our garden journey.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Shoo Whitefly

When we returned from a trip to Kentucky for a week I went to my strawberries to give a hello, since it had been so long, and was greeted with a white cloud of, well, I didn't know what it was.  When I back off, the cloud disappeared.  I bent over slowly and saw tiny white bugs on the leaves.  They looked a little like aphids, only white and they could fly.  Well, I went directly to the mighty Oracle (the internet) and learned that we had a whitefly infestation.  Apparently these little suckers can really do some damage.  My mission now is to take out those whiteflies and figure out why my strawberries are stressed.  Maybe they don't like being in pots, or maybe they just don't have enough companion plants. Here is a link to one of the many informational pages I found on whiteflies and how to get rid of them.   www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-whiteflies.htm

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