These golden blooms are a common sight in a vegetable garden because they’re so good at keeping pests away. Marigolds ( Tagetes) are known to repel nematodes, whiteflies, squash bugs, aphids, thrips, ...

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Here is spring, and it feels great. The wildflowers are here. Winter deciduous trees and shrubs are blooming and leafing out.