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What are Thrips?
I have never heard of these tiny garden insects, but they seem to cause a lot of destruction in the vegetable garden. Thrips are little insects, less than 1/25 inch long. It is difficult to see them with the naked eye. If you do happen to spot them from afar, they look like a tiny spec of string lodged atop of a leaf or stem. They are either straw-colored or black in color.

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Learn How to Get Rid of Thrips
Today, I refer to master gardener, Caren White.  In the article, “How to Rid Your Garden of Thrips,” this gardener shares information that helps you get rid of thrips by using beneficial insects like lady bugs and other bugs who work to eradicate thrips in your garden. Master gardener, White also shares information about insecticides and other useful tips to help you get rid of the pesky thrips lurking in your vegetable garden.

Get Rid of Thrips Before Thrips Get Rid of Your Vegetables
Thrips live comfortably in your garden soil during the winter. Then, in the spring they produce their eggs and multiply. Thus, begins the destructive cycle of thrips in your garden. Be ready to eradicate thrips before thrips eradicate your vegetables.

What to Look For on Your Plant
When you see pale, splotchy, silvery, twisted, discolored, or scarred leaves, it’s time to investigate and look for thrips being the culprit.
Thrips can be found destroying just about any vegetable plant, but are usually found on onions, beans, carrots, and squash.

Remember, thrips live in the soil during the winter and then in the spring, they insert eggs into the tissue of flowers, leaves, or stems of the plant. Thrips are very productive. A female can produce up to 80 eggs which hatch within 16 days or less when the weather is warm. Gardeners want to take care of thrips as soon as possible because thrips can produce up to 15 cycles of thrip generations per year.

Be sure to read Caren White’s article and get rid of thrips now.

Gardeners are always dealing with pests and one pest that I deal with on a regular basis is ants. They seem to come around when vegetables like corn and tomatoes are ripe. As soon as I see them I know it is a hint that the vegetables are ready for harvesting. While thanking the ants for the notice, I still don't like them hanging around my vegetables, infiltrating them so that now I don't have the pleasure of enjoying the fruits of my labor.

On this page, you will read how gardeners deal with getting rid of ants in their home and garden.

The Easy Way to Kill Ants
In this article, the gardener shares trade secrets that exterminators use for getting rid of ants using ordinary household products.
by Mary Wickison (Blond Logic) at HubPages

Natural Ways to Control or Exterminate Ants
Hear is a gardener who knows a lot of things about getting rid of ants. As I read this article, I counted 14 different solutions to get rid of ants. This article is well worth reading to discover the many household products you can use to get rid of ants in your home and garden.
by MakinBacon at HubPages

Chipmunks are truly one of the cutest little creatures to see in the yard, but they are also destructive animals that can wreck havoc in a vegetable garden. They chew on your bulbs, nibble on the roots, and completely devour their favorite veggies.

I discovered a couple of articles, written by gardeners who have dealt with chipmunks in their own way. These gardeners share their solutions with other gardeners who want to find solutions to getting rid of chipmunks in the vegetable garden.

I am sure you will enjoy reading the following article titled, "How to Get Rid of chipmunks in your Yard - Made Easy." It is filled with some practical solutions for getting rid of chipmunks. Most of the solutions are harmless except for one of the solutions, which many city ordinances frown on anyway. You will probably shy away from that solution, but the others are completely harmless to the little chipmunks. Click below to read more.

You will also enjoy reading the following article titled, "Ten Humane Ways to Get Rid of Chipmunks" because all of the solutions are safe to try, plus the gardener shares information about products many gardeners have used with success.

Yes, chipmunks are cute, and we don't mind sharing our veggies with family, friends, and neighbors, but we surely don't want chipmunks destroying them before we have had our share of freshly grown vegetables. I hope you find the solutions for getting rid of chipmunks helpful. Let me know which solutions you tried and whether or not they worked.