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Garden Help Desk: Protecting beets, chard and spinach from leafminer insects

I’m finally planting my beets in a few days, but I don’t want to have the same problem I had last year. I don’t know what you call the disease, but the leaves got large brown patches on them and dried out. I still got lots of nice beets, but I want to avoid that problem this year. ...

Garden Help Desk: Spring brings swarming bees and aphids

We have a swarm of bees (we’re pretty sure they’re bees, not wasps) on a stump close to our big garden. We know they would be good for our garden and fruit trees, so we’d like to let them stay. How can we encourage them to stick around? There is a swarm of bees in my chimney. I know I ...

Sunday Drive: Unleashing Italian excellence in the 2024 Alfa Romeo Stelvio

It’s been almost five years since we had our last opportunity to get into an Alfa Romeo Stelvio, so we were definitely hoping for some nice spring weather for our week with the 2024 version. Mother Nature cooperated this time out as we were in the midst of "third spring" in Utah, which is ...