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 …
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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 …
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 …
Living Organic Soil: Digging Deeper Into Not Digging At All
The first and second parts of this series look at living organic soil, its benefits and how to build it …
An Easy Recipe To Building Living Organic Soil
In the first part of this series, we explored the new wave of indoor organic growing using living soils and …
Grow Your Best Crops With Nature’s Helping Hand And Living Organic Soil
Why do we grow our food? Most growers will say for quality, flavour, and freshness, and to achieve those things, …
A Quick Guide To Growing Organic Greens At Home
Is the shortage of salad greens at the local supermarket getting you down? While they may seem simple, these greens …
How a Topdressing of Easily Accessible Mycelium Can Raise Your Growing Game
Mushroom mycelia are everywhere; with a little search, it’s relatively easy to get your hands on some commercial spent substrate …
How One Market Gardener Makes It Work Growing In The Rainy British Isles
The conversation around environmental control in urban farming is constant, but ‘old school’ soil growers tend not to engage in …
Garden Advice: Ways to Feed your Plants Naturally
All plants need 17 naturally occurring elements to grow, flower, fruit and reproduce successfully. However, they require different quantities depending …
Regenerative Agriculture The Solution To Reconnecting With Nature And Ourselves
The way we treat the soil reflects the way we treat ourselves, and the way we treat ourselves is the …
Is Organic Certification Worth It For Small Scale Farmers?
“It’s the people who spray the chemicals on their food that should have to label it!” We’ve all heard this …
A Gardener’s Journey to Self-Sufficiency, Health, and Happiness
About six years ago, Liz Zorab knew that something wasn’t right. She had gained weight, her hearing and vision were …
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. …
How To Make An Organic Houseplant Fertilizer
We don’t refer to houseplants as ‘plant babies’ for no reason! Showering our indoor flowers and greenery with a little …
The Continued Organic Certification of Hydroponics
Tips For Removing Weeds From The Garden
For most of us, weeding is one of the least pleasurable aspects of having a garden and a cause for …
Cultivating Hope Through Regenerative Organic Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture is a big topic of discussion in growing communities worldwide, but do we know what it means? When we …