Gardening Tips

Growing flowers without chemicals can seem like a challenge, especially when pests threaten your plants. I learn this firsthand when I was growing tomatoes in our small backyard before we bought our farm. Whiteflies, tiny sap-sucking bugs with wings, kept attacking my tomato leaves. My first reaction was to spray chemicals aggressively. I recon we sprayed so much that no insect survived within 100 meters of our house! Yet, a week later, the whiteflies returned. After my third