How To Prevent And Cure Aphid Infestations
Sacrificial Plants To Help Your Edible Garden Grow
12 Plants to Deter Pests From Your Edible Garden Do you plant marigolds with your tomatoes and radishes with your leafy greens? Using sacrificial or companion plants is a natural pest control method that avoids pesticides and other toxins in the garden. These plants act as a decoy for slugs, snails, white flies, and other […]
Diatomaceous Earth: Should You Use It In The Garden?
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…
A Grower’s Guide To Cost-Effective Crop Nuisance Control
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 plant to plant as it feeds on tender leaves. I experienced a particularly nasty grasshopper infestation in my garden last summer. By the end of the growing season, my zucchini barely had any leaves left! […]
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 our sensory pleasure, health and wellbeing. Bird song, colorful perfumed flowers, exciting flavors and plant textures are just a few of the benefits of a biologically rich garden. Why is Biodiversity Important? Many gardeners struggle […]
Make This Easy DIY Organic Spray To Help Control Blight In The Garden
After a very humid start to the summer, I discovered blight on some of my tomato plants in the garden. The dreaded yellowing and brown spotting of the lower leaves were the first signs. Once it appears, blight can be difficult to eradicate, but you can use a homemade, organic solution to help slow the […]
SOS! Preventing and Controlling Whitefly Infestations
Whether growing indoors or outdoors, likely, you’ve already encountered the whitefly. A typical garden pest, whitefly reproduce rapidly and are incredibly destructive if left untreated. However, with the following tips and tricks, a whitefly infestation can be quickly controlled, and perhaps even avoided altogether! What are Whiteflies? Whiteflies are moth-like bugs. Around 2mm in size […]
How Plants Produce Their Own Pest Control
Plants are robust and adaptable organisms capable of producing a chemical arsenal of compounds to defend themselves, all the more impressive when considering the limited supply of chemicals they have to work with. Stress is the application of pressure on a system that prevents it from running at an optimal level, upsetting its balance and […]
5 Brutal Garden Bugs And What To Do About Them
Most gardeners have had to deal with bugs at one time or another, bugs that we are happy to see in the garden, and others that strike fear in us from the top of our sun hats to the tips of our green thumbs. Let’s take a look at five of the most brutal bugs […]
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 […]
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 […]
Humidity: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Everything and everyone is affected by humidity, or the lack of it. Plants are more sensitive to humidity levels and its variations than humans or animals. We manage to live through the discomfort. Plants manage humid conditions too, but the effect can be undesirable. Improper humidity levels affect plant functions and can cause irreparable damage […]