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.

What’s Wrong with This Plant?

Callie

Tomato, pepper, squash, cucumber, potato… the type of plant varies, but many gardeners find themselves wondering what’s wrong with this plant or that at any point in the growing season. What did we do to figure out the problem before the internet? I’ve forgotten. Thanks to cellphone cameras and the web, it’s become somewhat easier to…

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Homemade Plant Pest Sprays

Whipping up DIY concoctions to get rid of plant pests or diseases to save money is not penny-wise, unless you’ve got the right ingredients. Listen up, frugal gardeners… Homemade plant pest sprays and fungicides aren’t the answer. The same can be said for those who want to avoid nasty chemicals in the garden. Don’t let…
December 26, 2015
Tammy Clayton

Dealing with Grow Room Mites

Do you have them? They’re a particularly annoying form of vegetarians especially fond of indoor gardens. What are plant mites, how did they get in your grow room, and how do you get rid of them? Wait! Get rid of… as in completely? Read on, frustrated grower, you can win the battle with grow room…
November 23, 2015
Rick LeLoup

Keeping Deer Out of The Garden

Thousands of people a week look for the solution to this dilemma… how to protect plants from deer. It isn’t easy, especially in the city where deer have very little to eat buy your veggies, flowers, and landscaping. But the hardest of all of these to stop deer from damaging or eating completely is your…
April 25, 2015
Tammy Clayton

The Secret to A Weed-Free Garden

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…
July 12, 2014
Tammy Clayton

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 of handfuls of ripe ones right before the early frost, but not enough for canning salsa. The next year, I planted six of them. I got wheelbarrow loads of tomatillo fruits! The weather wasn’t necessarily better,…
July 11, 2014
Amber