Organic methods to fight weeds, disease, rodents, and pest insects.
Don’t ever let someone tell you that Lyme Disease is harmless. It definitely isn’t and it almost killed me. Learn how to avoid tick bites.
How to Avoid Tick Bites (From Someone Who Almost Died of Lyme Disease) Read More »
The Tertill Garden Weeding Robot is a Roomba-style invention to help gardeners with their most dreaded of chores. But a little planning has to go into your garden to maximize the usefulness of the Tertill.
Tertill Garden Weeding Robot Review: Tool or Toy? Read More »
The soil food web refers to the relationship between sunlight, the organisms in the soil, and the higher forms of life like birds and mammals that feed on soil organisms.
Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) is an invasive species from Asia, first spotted in the U.S. in 2014. It is very destructive to fruit crops and landscape plants.
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 »