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This time of year in Texas is the one I dislike the most. Beginning in July and not abating until the fall rains (if they come) my garden is assaulted with grasshoppers, heat and drought. The grasshoppers are the most devastating. Like some Biblical plague, they strip the weaklings first and then go on to finish the whole selection. Because of this, I have been using more natives that don't seem to be so tasty to them. But some of my lovingly tended long awaited new flowers are completely destroyed. It is so tempting to go nuclear with pesticides. I have a homemade spray that works but requires reapplication fairly often. I begin using it but the heat drives me indoors and I don't tend my garden as I should. My garden buddy at work cannot understand why I refuse chemicals. But when I find dead butterflies and watch a bee collecting nectar, I again resolve never to be a part of the Simple Solution. Every year I lose the battle with the bugs. But comes the next spring and May and my garden's glory, and I feel the sacrifices are worth it. They are lessons and I sometimes must accept that, no, I can't grow a certain plant here. But then I find a new native and it serves as balm for my wounded pride.
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