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Pest Corner
Pest Corner is the title of a series of gardening articles which appear in the Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties Master Gardener Newsletter. They are adapted from articles written by Don Tapio, Area Extension Agent for Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.
The Pest Corner articles cover a variety of subjects, from lawn care to fertilizers to specific insect and disease pests, and are filled with suggestions and tips for gardening successfully in our area. Almost all gardeners can benefit from reading the information contained on these pages.
Below is a list of the individual Pest Corner articles. They are stored in PDF format, which is easy to view and print. (If you can not read these PDF files, click on this link to get the latest free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader)
| Date | Subjects |
| October, 2008 | Preventing Rot While Storing Home-Grown Fruit. |
| August, 2008 | Tomato Growing Notes. |
| July, 2008 | Fertilizing, Surface Tree Roots, and Prune Spring Blooming Shrubs. |
| June, 2008 | Scotch Broom, horsetails, and vegetable garden pointers. |
| May, 2008 | The How’s about Fungicides, and Insecticidal Soaps. |
| April, 2008 | Great Plant Picks. |
| March, 2008 | Holes in your garden, beneficial nematodes, insecticidal soaps. |
| February, 2008 | Renovating old fruit trees and lilacs. |
| December, 2007 | Poinsettia care, Norfolk Island Pine. |
| November, 2007 | Fall Planting, Insects in Firewood, Mushrooms, and Moss in Lawns. |
| October, 2007 | Fall garden notes. |
| September, 2007 | Berry safety, tomato ripening, powdery mildew. |
| August, 2007 | Heat damage, mulches, weed prevention, tomato notes. |
| July, 2007 | Lawn & water, growing potatos and tomatos, potato and tomato late blight. |
| June, 2007 | Manures, Rhododendron deadheading, and root weevils. |
| May, 2007 | Moles, Photinia hedges, plants to nourish beneficial insects, and Dicyphus. |
| April, 2007 | Tips for reducing garden insect pests naturally. |
| March, 2007 | Pesticide use. |
| February, 2007 | Rethinking old gardening habits. |
| December, 2006 | Internet resources. |
| November, 2006 | Pest Corner in a reading mood. |
| October, 2006 | Mushrooms, weed management, and making apple cider. |
| September, 2006 | Yellowjackets. |
| August, 2006 | Spiders. |
| July, 2006 | Cabbage maggot, horsetail, and bolting. |
| June, 2006 | Scotch Broom and Spruce Aphids. |
| May, 2006 | Phenology, Creeping Speedwell, conifer pests, pruning questions, and sawdust as a garden amendment. |
| March, 2006 | Lawn problems. |
| February, 2006 | Selecting fruit trees and planting bare-root trees. |
| January, 2006 | Pruning young ornamental trees. |
| December, 2005 | Poisonous Christmas plants, container plants in winter, and roof moss control. |
| October, 2005 | Crane flies, watercore in apples, and Ladybird Beetles. |
| September, 2005 | Banded Alder Borer, yellow jackets, and fall webworms. |
| August, 2005 | Caring for strawberries, caring for berry crops after harvest, and tomato problems. |
| July, 2005 | Fungicides. |
| May, 2005 | Cooley Spruce Gall Adelgids, sap-sucking pests, Sooty Mold, insecticidal soaps, and attracting beneficial predators. |
| April, 2005 | Apple Scab, earwigs, moles, and Western Tent Caterpillars. |
| March, 2005 | Slugs, moss, algae, and lichen. |
| February, 2005 | Corticum Red Thread, Silver Spotted Tiger Moth, and Spruce Aphid. |
| January, 2005 | Slugs. |