Articles Index

Seed Balls: How to Make Them, and Customize Them for Your Region

A collection of articles about making seed balls, including recipes for wildflower mixes for different regions of the United States.

Complete Guide to Growing Organic Garlic

Here's everything you need to know to grow your own delicious organic garlic, including selecting the right type for your region, how to plant, and when to harvest.

Complete Guide to Growing Organic Tomatoes

Learn how to grow the best organic tomatoes, from selecting the tastiest varieties to how to handle common pest and disease problems.

How to Grow Purple Coneflower

Learn all about how to grow Purple Coneflower, a beautiful, care-free native perennial that is also useful medicinally.

Dandelions: Prevention and Control

Dandelions are the most common weed in most American gardens. They grow particularly well in their preferred conditions, spread easily, and can quickly get out of hand if left to their own devices. Thankfully, breaking out the weed spray is totally unnecessary if you do a few key things to control them.

How to Identify and Control Cucumber Beetles

How to identify cucumber beetles in your garden, and organic solutions for getting rid of them.

Organic Methods for Controlling Colorado Potato Beetle

If you're wondering what's eating the foliage of your potato plants, or you've seen the tell-tale yellow and black striped beetles nearby, you're very likely dealing with Colorado potato beetle. Here are some organic methods for preventing an infestation, and how to deal with one when it happens.

Companion Plants for Potatoes

Here are the best plants to grow with potatoes in your garden (as well as those to avoid.)

Starting an Organic Garden

From selecting a site and testing the soil to preparing a bed and buying plants, learn everything you need to know to successfully make a new organic garden.

Identifying and Controlling Cutworms

Cutworms cause what can possibly be considered the cruelest damage to your plants. After you've coddled seeds and watched them grow into sturdy little seedlings, you walk out to the garden one morning to find them laying on the soil, as if chopped down by tiny axes. This is telltale cutworm damage. Here's how to identify cutworms and protect your plants from these pests.

Spotty Tomato Leaves

How to diagnose your tomatoes to determine whether spots on the foliage are a result of early blight, late blight, or Septoria. This article includes a chart and photos.

Identifying and Controlling Cabbage Worms

Cabbage worms can wreak havoc on brassicas, especially in early fall. Those hungry caterpillars can turn your kale into a hole-ridden mess in no time. Luckily, they're easy to identify and deal with.

Perfect Companions for Broccoli

Here is a list of companion plants for broccoli, as well as those you should avoid planting near broccoli in your garden.

Companion Plants for Beans

Here are the best companion plants for beans, as well as which plants to avoid planting near your beans.

Common Vegetable Garden Pests and How to Get Rid of Them

Here are some of the most common pests in the vegetable garden, and what you can do to get rid of them organically.

How to Set Up and Care for a Worm Bin

Here's what you need to know to set up and care for your own little herd of vermicomposting worms.

Identifying and Controlling Verticillium Wilt

Verticillium wilt is a common disease that affects tomato plants. Here's how to identify it, as well as how to prevent it in the first place.

Tomato Hornworms

Tomato hornworms are some of the most common pests tomato growers have to contend with. This article shows you how to identify a tomato hornworm, and what to do if you find them on your plants.

Perfect Companions: Which Plants Grow Well with Tomatoes?

Several plants make excellent companions for tomatoes in your garden. Some help repel harmful pests, some help your tomatoes grow better, and some just make good neighbors, putting on most of their growth before your tomatoes take off. Here are the best companion plant for tomatoes, and what makes them great.

Identifying and Controlling Blossom End Rot

Blossom end rot is a condition that most commonly affects tomatoes, but can also affect eggplants, peppers, squashes, and melons. Here's what you need to know about blossom end rot and how to prevent it.

Identifying and Controlling Iris Borers

Iris borers are the single biggest pest threat to irises. All types of irises are at risk of being infested by iris borers, but German "bearded" irises are the most susceptible. This article will tell you how to identify them, and what to do if you find them.

Identifying and Controlling Yellow Woodsorrel

Yellow Woodsorrel is a weed that resembles a clover, but with small yellow flowers. This article explains how to identify and control yellow woodsorrel in the garden.

Bindweed: Controlling Bindweed

Bindweed is a vining weed with morning glory-like flowers. This article will tell you how to get rid of bindweed without using chemicals.

Preventing and Controlling Black Spot

Black spot is a disease that plagues many rose growers. Learning about the conditions that encourage this fungal disease, as well as ways to prevent it from spreading, will help you keep your roses looking great.

Preventing and Controlling Powdery Mildew

Powdery mildew is the bane of lilac growers and phlox lovers everywhere. Early detection and action is the key to organically ridding your garden of this annoying fungal disease.