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Pest & Disease Control

Follow our step-by-step guides to protecting your plants and controlling pest and disease outbreaks organically. No matter what the problem, there’s an all-natural way to fix it.

74 articles

Diatomaceous Earth: Should You Use It In The Garden?

It’s carnage! The Swiss chard chewed to the ground, the sprouting peas vanished, and the new shoots on the delphinium …

Rhubarb Leaves A Key Ingredient In This DIY Organic Pesticide Recipe

If you grow rhubarb at home, you probably think about making muffins, pies, and jams. But how about a homemade …

5 Beneficial Bugs To Look For In Your Garden

Bugs! Just the word itself has connotations of annoyance and intrusiveness. Not to mention that there’s an entire industry dedicated …

Checking In? Why Insect Hotels Are Essential In Every Garden

We build birdhouses for the chickadees, swallows, and robins that call our gardens home. We set up mason bee houses …

What To Do When Cabbage Worms Bust Into The Garden

Before the cabbage worm moved into my garden, my kale had never looked so good. Perfect, dark green leaves stood …

Safe And Humane Ways To Keep Animals Out Of The Garden

…by for lunch, he’ll take one sniff and head off to the milder garden down the road. The spicey spray should also keep deer and squirrels away and many unwanted…

Scouting: 7 Guidelines To Build Your Garden Vigilance

The number one practice that will add power to your Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is scouting. I often see professional …

Organic-Regenerative Gardeners, Here’s The Buzz About Borage

While getting some much-needed garden therapy at my local nursery recently, I came across a spectacular-looking plant that I decided …

Dressed To Impress: Feeding Your Soil From The Top

Topdressing is an excellent way to feed your soil and, in turn, your plants. So in the words of Motley …

Getting In Tune: Keys to Succeed at Integrated Pest Management

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) takes an ecosystem approach to pest/disease management. It focuses on the long-term prevention of pests and …

5 Cool Ways Homemade, Natural Solutions Help The Garden Thrive

Regenerative and organic gardening is about taking a page from Mother Nature when growing plants. Imitating what happens naturally in …

Tissue Culture lll: Reducing Propagation Contamination With Sterile Techniques

In two previous articles, we discussed some requirements for the successful tissue culture of plants and fungi. Some specific laboratory …

5 Cool Ways To Beat The Heat In The Grow Room

The horrors of heat stress! When things get a little too toasty in the garden, your plants will be quick …

A Grower’s Guide To Cost-Effective Crop Nuisance Control

I am fortunate to live in one of the most beautiful places in the world for growing outdoor cannabis. Our …

Hopping Mad! What To Do When Grasshoppers Move Into The Vegetable Garden

If you have a garden, then chances are you have grasshoppers! This common pest is easy to spot, jumping from …

Medicinal Plants And The Thorny Issue Of Mold

We’re all familiar with the blight of thrips, mites, aphids, green flies, black flies, whiteflies, and even caterpillars. Still, an …

Dear Diary: The Summer My Gardens Failed

I enter every growing season with high hopes and visions of gorgeous gardens overflowing with colorful flowers and delicious fruit …

Biodiverse Gardens Improve Pollination, Harvests, and Pest Control

A biodiverse garden has a wide variety of plants, food crops, birds, insects and other living species. Such diversity enhances …

Revolution is a Dirty Business: Two Women’s Journey Reshaping AgriCULTURE

While conventional agriculture turns to fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides to help with crops, regenerative growing takes a different approach. The …

We Like Our Potatoes Mashed, Roasted, and Pest-Free

Anyone who grows potatoes loves them, so why not celebrate them? National Potato Day falls every year on August 19th; …

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