Review: Building Soils Naturally by Phil Nauta
Phil Nauta’s Building Soils Naturally focuses on how to improve garden and lawn soil health by balancing your soil’s nutritional components.
Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
Articles on growing organic vegetables and fruit without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
August Gardening Tips: Harvest Onions, Store Fruit, Sow Fall Veggies
It may be the hottest month of the season, but it’s time to sow fall veggies, freeze or can summer fruits, and harvest onions.
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Black Spots on Tomatoes Could Be Blossom-End Rot (BER)
Blossom-end rot in tomatoes frequently appears after a drought. Roots are unable to take up sufficient water to move calcium to the growing fruit.
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Compost: Today’s Leftovers, Tomorrow’s Plant Food
When you compost your garden, plants need less fertilizer, soil quality improves and plants show more tolerance to diseases and pests.
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How to Water Tomatoes and Other July Gardening Tips
Guest authors Charlie Nardozzi and Dr. Leonard Perry offer gardening tips for July on avoiding blossom end rot in tomatoes, deterring slugs and snails, refreshing annuals, weeding, and more.
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How To Grow Sweet Peppers and Hot Peppers
Sweet peppers and hot peppers are the most popular garden vegetables after tomatoes, but they can be much fussier. Here are tips for growing your best peppers ever.
How to Use Diatomaceous Earth as an Organic Pesticide in Your Garden
Diatomaceous Earth is a very effective organic pesticide. Unlike chemical pesticides, it poses no risk for kids, pets, wildlife or you.
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Is My Rabbit Fence Useless?
Last year my garden of salad greens was decimated in one night by a gang of rabbits. This year I was determined to not let a rabbit attack happen again.
What are Mycorrhizal fungi?
Mycorrhizal fungi attach to the roots of most plants, especially trees, forming a symbiotic relationship.
How to Grow Potatoes in Your Garden
How to grow potatoes in your garden, including tips on planting, harvesting, and managing pests and diseases of potatoes.