Organic methods to fight weeds, disease, rodents, and pest insects.
Online, there are 1 million-plus recommendations on using coffee grounds in your garden to repel cats, boost soil nutrients and bacteria, attract earthworms, kill slugs, prevent weeds, aerate soil and god knows what else. I looked into the published science to see what the reality is on coffee grounds.
As we’ve moved away from our agrarian roots, we seem to have lost sight of the fact that birds are helpers, not pests, for gardeners.
To promote the growth of healthy plants, getting rid of pest insects can be as simple as sending in your own army of beneficial insects.
Bordeaux mixture and copper solutions have been used safely for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years to control fungal infections in plants.
Bordeaux Mixture and Copper Are Very Effective Organic Fungicides Read More »
Early Blight and Late Blight, although caused by two distinctly different fungi, have the same effect on your tomatoes or potatoes – either one may end your garden season prematurely.
Early Blight and Late Blight Control in Tomatoes and Potatoes Read More »
Beneficial nematodes control pests that destroy plants. But other nematodes completely destroy plants. How do you know which is which?
Beneficial Nematodes – Garden Friends Or Enemies? Read More »
Crop rotation is key to successful home gardening to avoid pests and disease. Includes a sample plan for crop rotation and a chart of plant families.
Recent studies have shown that the world’s most widely used class of pesticides are responsible for the massive die-off of honeybees and deaths of birds.
Pesticides Implicated In Deaths of Bees and Birds Read More »
So you’ve got Japanese knotweed threatening to strangle the life out of the other plants in your garden. It needs to be removed, but where to begin?
A reader is having problems with aphids and snails eating his mustard greens. How to get rid of the pests and how to avoid insect damage in the future.
Why are My Mustard Greens Dying and Full of Holes? Read More »