A Natural Garden Helper
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Attracting Beneficial Bugs to your garden is an ecosystem based approach to managing pests in your garden.  Written by a professed past insecticide user turned bug-lover, this book is written with humor and a down-to-earth approach.  There is a lot of great information in here, especially about plant and bug communication that will hopefully convince people that they never have to use an insecticide again. As author Jessica Walliser says "It is about encouraging the beneficial ones in hopes of mitigating the pesky ones."

The book is organized into helpful sections:

Beneficial Bug Profiles: Includes how the bug works, what they prey on, what exactly they will do in your garden and what to plant in order to help them.

Gardening for Bugs: This section will help you understand the feeding habits of beneficial bugs in order to for you to provide the plants that they will thrive along with.  It even includes beneficial plants that would be considered weeds!

Plant Profiles: The exact species of plants that will help you attract the bugs you want.

Design: This is a handy section to help you design all of these plants in a residential setting.

This book was provided for free in return for an honest review.
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I purchased this smile some time ago and hung it on a tree in my backyard garden.  I call him "the Green Man" and have trained my young granddaughters to wink at the Green Man whenever they come into the garden. He is developing a wonderful patina and is coming to look like a natural outgrowth of the lichen. It is nice having such a gentle spirit watching over my plants.
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I did get the two pack so I would have a nice full plant.  it is natural looking with the two colors and I like it very well. it brightens up a window that does not get sun
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Since I started reading the book, my planting project has been going very well. Ive started making my raised bed garden to grow some vegetables and flower plants. I used some recycling materials to build it like old wter tanks and big barrels. Ive made some planting combinations in the different containers of the raised bed. For example, some insects are avoid by combinating some tomatoe and cabbage plants planted in the same container according to the recommendation of the book. The insects that usually attack cabbage are repelled by tomatoe plant. My family is fascinated by the idea to grow our own food. Ive learnt how to cultivate different vegetables according to the season we are in. Thus, this is an interesting way to know more about nature.
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Very useful in our organic community garden at my church.  Several people have used it.  It's secure, comfortable, a good height.  Haven't used it as a kneeler yet as my knees are pretty cranky. Makes weeding less arduous.
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This was a great option.  It looks very natural.  You will need two good planters and some cement and ready!
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This a wonderful way to keep the deer from eating my flowers. I put one over each of my two large planters in front of my house. The mesh is not visible from the street, and my flowers are thriving and looking great. It is easy to water plants through the mesh, and if you only secure one side, it is easy to tip  over to weed, and cut off dead flowers.
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I purchased a My Garden Post for my mother on her birthday last fall. She is confined to a wheelchair and lives in an assisted living complex in Florida. She loves her plants and has access to a small balcony off her living room. The My Garden Post has given her great enjoyment over the winter.
 I'm now shopping for another one for myself and found this opportunity to review the product. The My Garden Post has solved several problems for mother. Before we set up the My Garden Post vertical gardening system, her plants took up all the space on her balcony. Growing vertically allows her to be outside with her plants. Now she can easily reach all the planters to tend and water them while in her wheelchair. The casters allow her move her My Garden Post as she likes.
I bought the basic vertical gardening system that didn't include the drip irrigation system. She doesn't have a water source and couldn't use it. She does have all the time in the world to water her plants and actually enjoys the chore. That's not the case for me; I'll get the irrigation system with mine.
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Great for plants when you don't have access to natural sunlight. I used it on an African Violet and it perked up quite nicely!
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I have my own and purchased this one as a gift. Nice quality works well - the gardens look really great with its help!
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The former owner of my home used a great deal of landscaping rocks in the various garden beds around the property.  This sifter works well in filtering out the larger stones so I can improve the soil for plants.  Appears well made and holds enough dirt for small to medium sized projects.
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I like the fact that the green color blends in with the surroundings. This is a non-ostentatious garden border. So when you want to see your flowers, it features your garden and not the fence.
It is quite light-weight so it is easy to bend and to install. This is no doubt why its economical. The only drawback is you have to be attentive when pressing the vertical wires into the ground. Because the wire is thin it can flex before you get it pressed into the ground. But if you are utilizing it for your garden, the soil is well mulched and soft.
I purchased the fencing to keep my gentle, old dog from lying down in my plants. It works perfectly for a non-persistent, old dog. A young or big dog would need a taller, more substantial border. But for an easy installation that looks clean, this works perfectly.
The only reason I rated it a 4 (instead of a 5) is the thinness of the wire, but the price can't be beat if you want something attractive and quick, and tidy.
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My yard guy recommended this for our gardenias and other flower plants.  It works well.  Somehow the plant drinks it from the roots and produces growth that seems more resilient to bugs.  Great product
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This is such a handy little thing to have in your garden especially for the older gardeners.  It allows them to get closer to plant and weed.  I ended up purchasing three of these for three different folks ages 73, 73, 78 who spend a lot of time in the garden.  One thing that is very important to note - the instructions for use in the box explicitly say to use it only on level ground.  That is very good advice that needs to be followed.  With that one caveat I think your gardeners will find this seat very useful
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So far so great this is a useful well though out item for gardeners challenged by height. It reaches keeping me safer from snakes and assorted other perils hidden in shrubbery and I adore it. I have used it for extended periods twice before this writing and the battery seems very capable for my use. I am at this writing very pleased.
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It is somewhat difficult for me to think of growing food vertically for some reason. What no hills/mounds for those vines that produce squashes and melons? Grow them vertically and secure with panty hose? Actually having the vegetables off the ground just might reduce insect problems. My biggest problem is that the house I bought has rock instead of a lawn which is typical for New Mexico. Clearing the rocks and prepping the soil for a vertical garden (and also using self-watering containers) is more efficient. I am glad I purchased this book.
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Good for protecting the plants.  I wish access to the plants was easier but the quality is good.  It works well enough that I'm likely to buy another.