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Sarah Browning: Battling bugs in organic gardens

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Sarah Browning: Battling bugs in organic gardens

• SARAH BROWNING For the Lincoln Journal Star
• May 22, 2021
• May 22, 2021 Updated Jun 29, 2021
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A European corn borer finds a meal and a home in a garden pepper.

• PHIL SLODERBECK, Kansas State Unversity, bugwood.org

The best way to eradicate some pests that are found on the underside of foliage is with a blast of water from a syringe.

• WHITNEY CRANSHAW, Colorado State University, bugwood.org

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SARAH BROWNING For the Lincoln Journal Star

Michael Pecha has created a native grass garden full of flowers and fauna.

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Sarah Browning: Battling blight in your pine trees

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Sarah Browning: Flower winners offer colorful pop

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Sarah Browning: 2021 All-America Selection vegetable winners

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Photos: What to plant if you want to attract pollinators

Serviceberry

The fruit of the serviceberry is popular with birds, and humans can eat it, too. It’s excellent in jams, jellies and pies.

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Swamp milkweed

Swamp milkweed attracts many butterflies, especially monarchs. It’s essential larva food.

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Coneflower

Heat- and drought-resistant coneflower or echinacea attracts birds and butterflies.

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Black cherry tree

Thrushes, woodpeckers, sparrows, tanagers and orioles are among the dozens of birds that enjoy the fruit of the black cherry tree.

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Goldenrod

Showy goldenrod is an important late-season pollinator plant. Contrary to what you may have heard, it doesn’t cause hay fever.

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Bee balm

Bee balm, or monarda, is a member of the mint family. Bees love its fragrant blooms.

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Sarah Browning is an extension educator with Nebraska Extension. To ask a question or reach her, call 402-441-7180 or write to her at sarah.browning@unl.edu or 444 Cherrycreek Road, Lincoln, NE 68528.

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