From the editor
Pests and diseases. Gardening would be boring without them. Where would the challenge be if all your tomatoes were perfect without you even trying? Or if nectarines fell off the trees into your hand as you strolled through the orchard looking for things to do? Reality, of course, is nothing like that. At least in my garden. What with fruit flies, fruit bats, aphids, scale, snails and caterpillars, there’s plenty of competition out there when it comes to enjoying the harvest. That’s if there is a harvest, after the various wilts and rusts and mildews have done their best to bring plants to their knees. It sometimes seems like a miracle that we get to eat anything out of the garden at all. Nuking all those bugs and diseases with powerful chemicals…