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August maintenance
Control Crabgrass in Your Lawn

Time to complete:

1-2 hours for typical suburban lawn

Difficulty:

Easy

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Diagnose your plants' problems right here.

Tomato Hornworm

Tomato hornworms eat tomatoes and leaves in the late summer.
Grasshoppers

Grasshoppers can destroy an entire garden.
Ladybugs

Entice ladybugs into your garden to get rid of aphids and other pests.
Whiteflies

Whitefly secretions can cause fungus growth on leaves.
Cucumber Beetle

Cucumber beetles transmit diseases that are deadly to the cucumber family of plants.
Peach Tree Borer

The larvae bores into the trunk of peach trees.
Cutworm

Seedlings chewed off at the base? Cutworms could be the culprit.
Stink Bug

Stink bugs suck the juices from vegetable plants - and really do stink when crushed.