I like it when we use plants to help plants. I am quite positive that all of our problems can be solved with plants. Hungry? Eat a plant. Sick? Medicinal plants. Feeling blue? Smell a rose. Need fresh air? Plant a tree. The list goes on and on….but, here is an ingenious recipe from the book Great Garden Formulas by Benjamin and Martin editors. Apparently … Continue reading Rhubarb Spray for Garden Pests
My roses are suffering from this triple threat. With a cool, wet spring and having been mostly ignored, the danger deepens. The aphids seem to multiply exponentially, small, unassuming and insidious. The caterpillars hungrily munch, munch, munch, without the good manners to finish one leaf before moving on to the next. Black spot is here to stay, and it’s not going away. So what is … Continue reading Awful Aphids, Creepy Caterpillars and Evil Black Spot
“Soil is the basic raw material of the gardener’s art.” From the Organic Garden Book by Geoff Hamilton Continue reading Soil
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