Using Corn Gluten as a Pre-Emergence Herbicide in the Fall
Using a pre-emergence herbicide in the fall can drastically cut down your weed problems in the spring. Luckily, organic gardeners practicing natural lawn care techniques do have a commercially available pre-emergence herbicide at their disposal: corn gluten.
You can’t just go to the grocery and buy corn gluten. As with other garden remedies, corn gluten is commercially available from garden supply companies. It can still be a little tricky to find these …
Organic Lawn Renovation
Fall is a good time to renovate the lawn, if your lawn needs lots of work. Cooler temperatures and shorter days allows the grass seed to sprout and grow a strong root system before the winter. Organic lawn renovation is not terribly different than conventional lawn renovation, with the exception of removing or knocking down any existing lawn grass. Conventional practices call for spraying an area to be renovated with roundup before …
Organic Pest Control: Milky Spore
Late summer is a perfect time to treat Japanese Beetle Grubs, if you have a grub problem. During the late summer, the adults have stopped feeding, laid eggs, and the eggs have hatched into vulnerable larvae susceptible to treatment. In order to treat Japanese beetles, you need to understand their life cycles.
Japanese …
Keep that White Clover in Your Lawn!
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Lucky clover. You’ll usually see three leaf clover, but sometimes, just sometimes, you’ll be lucky and find a fourth. Actually, contrary to modern belief, you’re a lucky gardener if you find white clover in …
The Basics of Organic Lawn Care
Anyone interested in organic gardening surely is interested in an organic lawn care regimen. Lawn care free of chemical fertilizers and herbicides isn’t difficult nor is it any more expensive than traditional lawn care. It turns out that our lawns have a major impact on our environment.
Did you know that 30% of water on the east coast, and 60% of …
Organic Landscaping
Am I seriously going to write a post about Organic Landscaping? Yes. Why? Well, because there is a lot of talk about Organic Gardening, and rightfully so (that is what this site is about, yes?), but not so much talk about organic landscaping. Why might we care? Well, because “landscaping” is kind of another term for the plants …
Buying Healthy Plants To Avoid Problems
Every minute of every day, the plants in your yard are defending themselves from their natural enemies. When a gust of wind breaks a tree branch, chemicals concentrated at the base of the plant mobilize into a protective wall to prevent pests from invading the healthy parts of the tree.
A shrub that is being attacked by insects nibbling on its leaves will respond by changing its leaf chemistry, …
Grow Your Own Veggies
I have mentioned before the benefit, both financially and healthwise,
to grow your own veggies.
There is nothing more satisfying in a garden, than to pull your own
carrots, eat your own tomatoes and dig up your own potatoes.
The principles of being able to produce good quality vegetables,
relies on good soil.
A healthy soil is a living community of tiny organisms that cycle
nutrients, which helps plants get those nutrients and overwhelm
disease.
Green manures are …
