Elaine ..
"But where Lyn is growing roses, enriching the soil, tilling and watering is a more attractive area for insects,
I don't enrich the soil with any amendments, nor do I till the soil. All organic materials go on top of the beds. It would be easy to think of the insects in the OM, but down deeper, my soil is not so hospitable to insects. With the extreme drought we have been experiencing, I haven't even seen as many worms as I've seen in prior years. All I can think of is that they are following the water.
Lyn