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.

The Secret to A Weed-Free Garden

Tammy Clayton

So, how’s the weeding going for you this summer? You have all my sympathy. I know exactly how hard it is to keep on top of eradicating weeds. But I don’t have weeds in my veggie garden anymore. It’s practically weed-free, and will be all season long. No chemicals. No all weekend weeding frenzies. No…

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Bug Battles: What’s Eating My Tomatillos?

The first year I grew tomatillos I had one plant. The weather was awful. I finally got a couple handfuls of ripe ones right before the early frost, but not enough for canning salsa… so the next year I planted six of them. Holy cow, I got wheelbarrow loads of tomatillo fruits. Not because the…
July 11, 2014
Amber

Something’s Eating My Tomatoes!

Hmm… what the heck is going on here? Is it an animal chowing down on your precious tomato plants? Maybe. Got deer problems? While they don’t normally eat tomato plants, occasionally a youngster decides to check out the flavor. It depends on how much of the plant is missing. A deer will only taste it,…
March 15, 2014
Tammy Clayton

Natural Garden Pest & Disease Control

Getting away from nasty chemicals is something more and more people want to do. There are safer methods to keep things like bugs and mold, mildew and other fungi plant predators in check is on fruit and vegetable plants. It doesn’t matter if you’re treating an indoor garden or one in the backyard, there’s a…
July 6, 2013
Tammy Clayton

A Plant Health Camera

Monitoring the health of plants in your garden might be about to get a lot easier. In fact, it might be possible to catch signs of stress before they even become really noticeable. Not just in your indoor garden, but the backyard veggie plot, your flower garden and the landscape plants too. One of the…
June 15, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Exactly What Is the Problem Here?

At the first sign of plant stress, in both indoor and outdoor gardening, the less experienced grower does one of two things. Either they pour on more fertilizer, or increase their watering. So it shouldn’t be surprising at all to learn that the most common problems in the indoor hydroponics garden are also related to these…
October 23, 2012
Tammy Clayton