FarmChef

Time to start our seeds indoors. We just got our soil!We are so excited that this year we get to use soil from .soil. This stuff is so fluffy and lucious. I have high hopes for our seedlings. Huge thanks to for recommending them and organizing the order.

Tip: if you have old metal blinds cut them up to make plant labels. You can reuse them year after year. Also, has a ton of previously used pots for free that can help you with seed starting.

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Tomato hornworm and braconid wasps. These worms decimate tomato plants, but this is an example of nature at its best.

“A female wasp has laid her eggs under the skin of that hornworm. As the eggs hatch the larvae actually feed on the hornworm insides. The larvae eat their way out of the caterpillar and spin the cocoons you see. Eventually adult wasps will emerge from the cocoons and the weakened hornworm will die.”

I try to plant small flowers like tansy and yarrow in my pollinator garden close by and let some carrots, dill, cilantro, and fennel flower to entice these wasps to stay in my garden and do pest management for me.