The weather is intermittently heating up, but it is still really wet! The minds of gardeners are turning to such things as shield bugs(stink bugs), and psyllids. I notice that most people think it is all gloom and despair and the only solutions that work are toxic. We have tried many organic solutions over the years and I'm really excited to be able to tell you that we currently have two that have worked very well for us. Both of them are totally organic.

Many gardeners, and small and large commercial growers have lost entire potato crops and even old seed lines over the past couple of seasons. Scott Lawson (True Earth brand), well known for being New Zealand’s largest grower of organic potatoes, no longer grows potatoes commercially. He had to put all of his potato staff of 6 off, and he is focusing instead on researching ways to grow them with psyllids around.