Consider using organic sprays made from ingredients like neem oil or garlic to tackle stubborn infestations without harming beneficial organisms. By incorporating these methods into your organic gardening routin
Organic gardening is essentially gardening without using synthetic products like fertilizers and pesticides. It involves the use of only natural products to grow plants in your garden
Another great product is neem oil; treat the garden and lawn to a spray made of 2 tablespoons of neem oil and 2 teaspoons of liquid soap to make a gallon of natural grub repellent. I prefer to usethis organic neem oil, but really any type will do. How To Prevent Grubs in Your Gard...
YouGo BD/Shutterstock If you're a big fan of gardening, you may already be familiar withneem oil, which is often applied to plantsas an organic pesticide and fungicide. What you might not have considered is that you don't have to just buy the oil — you could instead grow your very ...
Q4: Do I NEED to buy organic coconut oil? Yes yes yes!! The benefits will be greater with organic oils. Q5: I gag over weird textures- can I melt it first before I swish? Certainly! Many people say no no no to nuking in the microwave cause of radiation, yet if it’s just 10 ...
One of our readers recently pointed me in the direction of a rather interesting article on the Fine Gardening (magazine) website entitled, "The Jury is Still Out on Compost Tea". I have little doubt that the article has touched a nerve with many serious
When I have an unexpected break in the flow of my weird days, it doesn’t take much to get me to think about gardening. Or future projects. Or chores undone as the weather threatens this or that. Or to check out the plethora of garden bloggers and You Tubers that I follow, looking...
So what is a spider cricket anyway? And do they cause any harm to you or your home? Here's what to know. 1. A spider cricket isn’t a spider or a cricket. Good news for anyone with arachnophobia—despite their name, these pests aren’t spiders. Instead, they're part of the insec...
Wendy Johnson’s “Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World”, and “Homegrown Herbs: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying More than 100 Herbs” by Tammi Hartung, for plant positioning, organic pest management techniques, starting seeds, and trans...
Gap Depending on the type of spark plug needed for your lawnmower engine, the gap between the post and tongue (center and ground electrodes) must be set a specific width. If the gap is too large, the spark generated in the center electrode will not travel completely to the ground electrod...