This A to Z guide includes growing information for warm season vegetables: green beans, cucumbers, eggplant, okra, peppers, summer and winter squash, tomatoes, and watermelon.
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Guide to Growing Cool Weather Vegetables Part 2
Part 2 includes growing guides for cool season vegetables: lettuce, mustard greens, onion, parsnip, peas, potatoes, radishes, spinach, and Swiss chard. Find Part 1 here.
Continue ReadingOrganic Insect Control for Your Vegetable Garden
Are insects wreaking havoc in your garden, but you want to avoid harmful chemicals? Don’t be discouraged, because there are effective techniques and natural remedies to keep those pests at bay, without compromising the health of your plants or the environment.
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Part 1 includes growing guides for cool season vegetables: asparagus, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, garlic, and kale. Find Part 2 here.
Continue ReadingHow to Control Cabbageworm and Moths in your Organic Garden
Along with slugs, cabbage moths and cabbageworms can do extensive damage to cabbage plants, and other brassicas such as broccoli, cauliflower or kale. But there are some effective ways to control cabbageworm in your organic garden.
Continue ReadingHow to Control Slugs and Snails in your Organic Garden
The most frequent questions I get regarding organic gardening concern control of disease and insects. My answer tends to frustrate people, because I believe that the most important thing you can do to ensure a pest-free garden is to build healthy soil that produces healthy plants. We live in an imperfect world, of course, so there will surely be times that you want a few strategies to control slugs and snails in your organic garden.
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