Organic methods to fight weeds, disease, rodents, and pest insects.
Remember when garden maintenance meant reaching for the nearest bottle of weed killer? Those days are rapidly changing as more of us discover the joy – and effectiveness – of […]
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While ants are important to outdoor ecosystems, finding them marching across your kitchen counter or gathering around pet food bowls is another matter altogether. When these insects venture inside, they
Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can’t absorb from the soil. Not only does
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As gardeners, weeds are one of our biggest pet peeves. They compete with our plants for nutrients, water, and sunlight, take up space, and aren’t always as pretty as what
Stone fruits like apricots, cherries, plums and peaches are very susceptible to fungal infections. Here are 8 organic strategies for controlling fungi.
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.
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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.