{"id":298,"date":"2020-06-02T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/?p=298"},"modified":"2020-06-02T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:50:23","slug":"in-vegetable-gardens-vigilance-is-key-to-controlling-weeds-pests-and-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/2020\/06\/02\/in-vegetable-gardens-vigilance-is-key-to-controlling-weeds-pests-and-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"In vegetable gardens, vigilance is key to controlling weeds, pests and diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/06\/cuke-beetle-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/06\/cuke-beetle-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/06\/cuke-beetle-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/06\/cuke-beetle-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3378\/files\/2020\/06\/cuke-beetle.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Row covers can help protect cucumber beetles &#8211; article by Kim Pokorny for the Oregonian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Freshly planted and carefully tended, vegetable gardens can quickly become a magnet for trouble. Problems seem to spring up overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeds, for instance, can overtake a garden in days. Slugs munch on seedlings. Aphids suck the juices from any number of plants. And that white butterfly you see fluttering around? It\u2019s a cabbage white butterfly that lays eggs that turn into voracious larvae.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weston Miller, horticulturist with Oregon State University Extension Service, says that &#8220;weeds are the hardest part of vegetable gardening. If you let them get out of control, it\u2019s a big problem. Using a hoe when the weeds are small will save you from having to bend down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read tips about weeding (and thwarting garden pests) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/hg\/2020\/06\/in-vegetable-gardens-vigilance-is-key-to-controlling-weeds-pests-and-diseases.html\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Freshly planted and carefully tended, vegetable gardens can quickly become a magnet for trouble. Problems seem to spring up overnight. Weeds, for instance, can overtake a garden in days. Slugs munch on seedlings. Aphids suck the juices from any number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/2020\/06\/02\/in-vegetable-gardens-vigilance-is-key-to-controlling-weeds-pests-and-diseases\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/columbiamga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}