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thanks for the welcome, Vfem! I am also going to plant fennel, dill and yarrow in the flower bed to keep the ladybugs happy. I'm hoping to establish a ladybug colony by giving them what the like and not have them "eat, breed and leave". They will also eat mildew, which we have plenty of around...

I'm not using the lady bugs for the black spot. I've got aphids all around that bed, too, and want the LBs to eat the bad bugs. DE has worked splendidly for me for a few years in slug/snail control.

I'd use the beer fix if we drank beer, but we don't and I don't want to go buy it just to make it go stale and use in the flower bed. I've seen that suggestion on here a lot. I'm specifically asking about DE with ladybugs since I have lots of DE and I know it works well with the slugs and snails...

So, I want to fight the nasty little buggies and diseases as naturally as possible. I've got black spot on almost all my roses, so I sprayed them with a mix of 2 tsp. horticultural oil and 2 tsp. baking soda in one gallon of water. I'm also removing all the old mulch in their flower bed. I am...

We brought a young Sequoia redwood tree with us from our place in northern California when we moved to the Portland, OR, area in 2007. For the past 3 years it has lived in a 5 gallon bucket (our bad). We finally planted it just a month or so ago. It was showing reallly beautiful new growth when...