On a bright and sunny morning, you go to check on your plants in the garden or greenhouse. Instead of healthy growth, you find they are looking wilted or marked by slimy white wavy lines. These are the signs that the...
Blog
White Spots on Tomato Leaves (Causes & Natural Fixes)
This fruit, often mistaken for a vegetable, is a staple of so many diets, there are dozens of recipes featuring it. Tomatoes are grown nearly everywhere in the world in gardens or greenhouses. Many experienced gardeners...
Using Newspaper to Kill Weeds: The Scoop
When it comes to fighting weeds in gardens, gardeners will do just about anything to avoid hand pulling and using toxic herbicides. Hand-pulling is time-consuming, tiring, and successful in the short term. Chemical weed...
25 Best Fall and Winter Crops for a Good Harvest
When people generally think about gardening and growing things, they think about planting in spring and harvesting in fall. This is the way it’s been done for ages, and it makes sense since most of the food we eat is...
15 Natural Ways to Get Rid of Earwigs on Plants
Falling into the smallest insect order, the Dermaptera, this order has just around 2,000 species divided into 3 suborders and distributed amongst 15 families, some of which are now extinct. Earwigs are found everywhere...
11 Natural Ways to Get Rid of Colorado Potato Beetle (Potato Bug)
Originally from the US where it’s found everywhere but Hawaii, Alaska, California, and Nevada, the Colorado potato beetle is a true bug. It was introduced to Europe through trade and is now found throughout Asia and the...
15 Types of Erosion and How to Prevent Them
Often confused with each other because they generally occur at the same time, erosion and weathering are not the same things. Physical weathering is when a rock gets broken down either by wind or rain or something else...
Good and Bad Companion Plants for Peppers
With the right guidance and some dedication, you could be harvesting your very own freshly grown peppers without the problems some farmers face. When pairing the right companion plants on your farm, the benefits are...
10 Natural Ways to Get Rid of Kissing Bugs (Triatominae)
A subfamily called Triatominae and are the sole bloodsuckers in the family Reduviidae, kissing bugs are true bugs. The rest of the members of this sect are predator bugs. There are about 130 species in the subfamily...
10 Benefits of Ladybirds (Coccinellidae) and How to Attract Them
These lovelies are found in the largest phylum (Arthropoda), class (Insecta), and order (Coleoptera), of which 6000 species spread out across 350 genera in the Coccinellidae family. Known in the Northern States as...