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 …
Companion Planting – Your Garden’s Mutual Defence Against Pests
You may have heard the phrase companion planting thrown around a bit here and there in your journey in organic gardening. Like burying beer to deter slugs, crop rotation, good garden hygiene, and proper feeding of the soil; companion planting is yet another tool that is available to make the life of the organic gardener a bit easier.
And, just as many of these aforementioned tools fail from time to time, companion planting is not a …
Down on the Biodynamic Farm
Baby Cows in “Daycare”
Over the past few weeks, I’ve come face to face with almost every facet of gardening/eating/organic/conventional agriculture. There was the trip to Tryon, NC for the BBQ and Bluegrass festival. That was an awesome meat-eating fest if I’ve ever seen one! We sampled lots of “chop,” which is BBQ code for “chopped pork straight out of the hog that is still roasting …
