Pest & Disease Control

You do not need twenty products to handle garden pests — you need ten ingredients that cover the entire pest…

Roses are disease magnets — black spot, powdery mildew, and rust find them within weeks of a humid spell. Organic…

Damping-off is the disease that kills seedlings overnight: a healthy flat of tomatoes, then a patch of stems that look…

Beneficial nematodes are microscopic roundworms that hunt soil-dwelling pests — grubs, fungus gnats, root weevils, and flea larvae — by…

Thrips are the quiet saboteurs of the houseplant world: barely 1–2 mm long, pale and fast, they rasp leaf surfaces…

Every organic gardener ends up assembling the same shelf of supplies — the only real question is whether you buy…

Curled, distorted leaves on peaches and tomatoes look similar, but the causes could hardly be more different. Peach leaf curl…

Companion planting is the oldest pest-management trick in the book — and one of the most oversold. Some pairings are…

Wasps and hornets are not the enemy of the garden — most species are predators that feed on caterpillars, flies,…

Floating row cover is one of the cheapest, most effective barriers a vegetable gardener can buy — but the fabric…