Organic Gardening Tips

Because when you have a garden problem, you don’t want to make it your personal problem

• Horticultural Glue: The Simplest, Easiest Method To Reduce Insect Problems
  Tanglefoot or other horticultural glue is one of my biggest garden friends. This is a glue that doesn’t dry right away – has the consistency of putty, is really, really sticky and is an amazing little bit of hort “stuff”.  And these homemade sticky traps are simply the easiest way to control insects in your ...
• 6 Butterfly Garden Design Rules
  These are the easiest and most important things you can do to attract butterflies to your garden Photo by Justin DoCanto on Unsplash Do Not Use Pesticides The first thing to understand is that butterflies are the adult form of caterpillars. So in order to get the butterflies you have to encourage the first stage of their development — caterpillars. Spraying with chemicals to prevent ...
• Do You Like The Smell Of Petunias? Neither Do Some Insects
  Do You Like The Smell Of Petunias? It turns out that neither do a large number of insects and in fact, it turns out that the isolated compound that forms that smell will kill several important garden pests Summary “You probably know methyl benzoate when you smell it. The natural compound’s wintergreen-spicy, floral-fruity aromas make it a popular ...
• Organic Aphid Control
  5 Things You Want To Know About This Common Garden Pest Aphid control means 1) understanding what this pest looks like so you’re 2) using the right technique to control the problem. Note: Aphids come in black, very pale green that appears almost white and I’ve even seen the odd pinkish one. You’ll mostly find aphids on ...
• How You Can Attract Good Insects To Your Garden
  Here’s a research study with an interesting organic approach you can do in your own garden Photo by Dustin Humes on Unsplash One of the interesting things that scientists are looking at right now are ways to attract predator insects to the garden. Instead of designing more insecticides to kill off pests, the aim is to attract ...
• Do Worms Control Aphids In The Backyard Garden?
  Here’s an interesting little factoid for you brought to you by the Centre of Plant Science, Berlin, Germany. Lead researcher Susanne Wurst reported in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, October 2010, that there is some relationship between aphids on a plant and earthworms in the soil. In greenhouse trials, aphids tended to congregate on tansy plants in ...