You want an organic home vegetable garden. But when your garden starts growing and you begin seeing insects using your carefully tended plants as their all-you-can-eat buffet, you wonder whether it’s even possible. You search for the quickest remedy, wondering if it’s even possible to grow a garden without pesticides. I understand. I can remember…
Dealing with pests in an organic garden is quite a hurdle to overcome. Your big dreams of a homegrown, pristine, abundant organic harvest are threatened when you discover bugs, and lots of them. But, before you get discouraged or go and buy something harmful to spray, or before you give up altogether, let’s learn what…
When you’re a beginning gardener, you may find yourself swimming in a sea of unfamiliar garden terms. When I was getting started, I got several things wrong because I misunderstood some of these common words. In this episode of the Beginner’s Garden Podcast and in the article below, you’ll learn some of the most common…
Is it possible to control pests in the garden without using pesticides? Many gardeners determine to use organic practices. But soon they find themselves discouraged when bad insects arrive in their gardens. How do organic gardeners keep bugs from eating their plants? A healthy, productive, organic home garden goes beyond home remedies for pest control…
As a first-time gardener, I would have given anything to have had a more experienced gardener teach me and guide me. But as it was, I taught myself from online sources, books, and trial and error. Out of that bootstrap learning, I decided I wanted to give other beginning gardeners a leg up, so they…
When we start our first gardens, we’re full of excitement and hope. But there’s another feeling not far behind: fear. What if we make mistakes without realizing it? Unless you have a longtime gardener mentoring you — which is awesome if you do — you don’t know what you don’t know. While part of growing…
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