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Fungus Gnat Control in the Organic Garden
It's difficult to control fungus gnats when they invade houseplants and greenhouses. Organic gardeners can kill fungus gnats without using chemicals.
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Grow and Care for Lupine Plants
Beginning gardeners can grow lupines successfully in the flower garden, as this hardy plant tolerates a wide variety of growing conditions.
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Homemade Gifts from the Organic Garden
Organic gardeners can use the harvest from the herb, flower, and vegetable garden to create inexpensive gifts for holidays or birthdays.
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Organic Care for Houseplants
Providing organic care for indoor potted plants is important to gardeners who wish to minimize their exposure to chemicals indoors.
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Growing Organic Beets in the Garden
Organic gardeners grow beets in the ground and the container garden for the roots and salad greens. Gardeners can fertilize and control beet pests without chemicals.
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Gather and Use Dead Leaves in the Organic Garden
Raking in the organic garden yields free soil amendments, like compost, leaf mold, and mulch. Leaf cleanup is easy when gardeners choose the best rakes.
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Organic Crops in Pots—A Book Review
Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell tells organic gardeners how to grow a container garden full of edible plants on a deck, balcony, or even a windowsill.
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Organic Farming Conferences and Events
Both new and seasoned organic farmers benefit from workshops and networking opportunities at farm tradeshows and conventions.
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Buteyko Breathing for Asthma and Lung Diseases
Buteyko breathing is a holistic treatment that patients with asthma, emphysema, or bronchitis can learn with the help of a DVD or Buteyko practitioner to breathe easier.
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Landscaping Software for the Organic Garden
Organic gardeners can shop for garden and landscape software that allows them to plan an entire garden design at once, avoiding piecemeal mistakes.
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Host an Organic Home and Garden Party
Hosting an organic garden party is a way to share the rewards of organic gardening methods with others. Invitations, food, and décor illustrate the garden party theme.
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Planting Organic Tulip Bulbs from Holland
The founder of Eco Tulips discusses the reasons for buying organic tulip bulbs instead of conventional bulbs, and shares the best tulip varieties for organic gardeners.
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Grow an Organic Indoor Vegetable Garden
Growing organic vegetables and herbs is possible for apartment dwellers and those impatient for spring planting. Choose the best indoor garden supplies for success.
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Mealybug Control in the Organic Garden
Mealybugs damage leaves and shoots of many garden plants in the landscape. Kill mealybugs on vegetables and flowers without using chemical pesticides.
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Control Plum Curculios in the Organic Garden
Plum curculio beetles damage many fruits in the organic garden, not just plums. Kill these garden insect pests safely and inexpensively.
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New Mesothelioma Treatment Options
Taking part in clinical treatment trials gives cancer patients a chance to improve the mesothelioma survival rate with angiogenesis inhibitors and other new drugs.
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Grow USDA Certified Organic Cotton on a Farm
Organic cotton production is possible when farmers use cover crops and other natural pest and disease controls to stop boll weevils, bollworms, and boll rot.
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Organic Farming Grants for Agriculture Research
Organic producers can apply for private or government farm grants to further technology and agricultural research that supports organic farming.
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Buy or Make Organic Potting Soil
Organic gardeners can't use heavy garden soil for container gardening. Use potting soils or soilless potting mixes for seed starting, propagating, and container planting.
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Growing Organic Broccoli in the Garden
Gardeners can grow organic broccoli in the spring or fall to enjoy the health benefits of this cool weather vegetable. Stop broccoli pests and diseases without chemicals.
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Natural Fungicide for Organic Farmers
Organic farmers can use natural fungicides derived from unmodified bacteria to control powdery mildew, root rot, rust, and other fungal diseases of vegetable crops.
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Organic Pest Control to Replace Chemical Sprays
Gardeners switching to organic gardening may be reluctant to get rid of chemical pesticides that worked in the past. Learn which organic products to replace them with.
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Wild Bees in the Organic Garden
Not all organic gardeners wish to take up beekeeping as a hobby, but everyone has a stake in maintaining a healthy wild bee population in the landscape.
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Grow Organic Celery in the Home Vegetable Garden
Organic gardeners who think celery is difficult to grow in the natural vegetable garden can grow healthy plants by following a few rules.
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Trace Plant Nutrients in the Organic Garden
There are six important trace elements in healthy garden soil. Organic gardeners can correct poorly performing flower and vegetable plants with natural soil amendments.
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The Best Gardening Tool for the Organic Gardener
Organic gardeners depend on garden tools to help them get high performing flowering and vegetable plants in the natural landscape.
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Natural and Organic Garden Borer Control
Garden borers affect vegetables, trees, and flowers in a way no other caterpillar pest does, eating plants from the inside out. Kill these insects using organic methods.
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Grasshopper Pest Control in an Organic Garden
Grasshoppers are common garden pests in the summer months, feeding on flower and vegetable gardens. Use organic and natural pest control methods to stop these insects.
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Rabbit Control in the Organic Garden
Grazing rabbits cause damage to tender shoots in the spring garden, and they damage tree bark and shrubs in the winter. Control rabbits without toxic chemicals.
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Organic Disease Control of Strawberry Plants
More than a dozen strawberry plant diseases can reduce the fruit harvest or even kill the strawberry patch. Stop these diseases without using chemical fungicides.
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Growing Strawberries in an Organic Garden
Fresh strawberries are at their best when an organic gardener grows strawberry plants in a garden free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
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Bird Pest Control in the Organic Garden
It's possible to achieve bird control in organic gardens with a variety of natural pest control products and repellents that are harmless to wild birds yet effective.
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Trap Cropping in Pest Management
Organic gardeners can plant trap crops that lure insect pests away from the cash crop or desired vegetable plot. Learn about border trap cropping and row intercropping.
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Flea Beetle Pests in Organic Vegetable Gardens
Flea beetles are small garden pests, but they can cause severe damage to vegetable crops such as eggplants and peppers. Control these insects with organic methods.
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Organic Pest and Disease Control for Tomatoes
When growing tomatoes in an organic garden, one can control garden pests and diseases like the tomato hornworm and tomato blight with natural gardening methods.
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Growing Tomato Plants in an Organic Garden
When growing tomato plants in an organic garden one must consider preparing the soil, planting tomato seedlings, tomato cages, and tomato fertilizer.
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Growing Tomatoes from Seed in an Organic Garden
Organic gardeners can control the growing process by choosing the best tomato varieties, by saving seeds, and by starting tomato plants from seed.
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Plant an Organic Living Roof Garden
Green roofing systems allow organic gardeners to create rooftop gardens on their homes or businesses. Learn about the plants and design to make this landscape possible.
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Top 10 Organic Gardening Glossary Terms
Beginning organic gardeners can study this glossary of natural horticulture and landscaping terms to feel comfortable at the plant nursery or in the garden forum.
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Growing Plants With Garden Seed Mats
Organic gardeners can use seed tape or a seed mat as an easy way to grow flowers, vegetables, and herbs in the landscape.
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Celebrity Organic Gardeners
Celebrity gardeners attempting to grow organic flowers and vegetables face the same insect pests, weeds, and diseases as the rest of us.
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Growing Lettuce Plants in an Organic Garden
Organic gardeners must place lettuce plants on their required list for a spring vegetable garden.
Lettuces are easy to grow from seed and do well in container gardens.
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Organic Gardening Myths and Urban Legends
Some false garden ideas have been around so long that organic gardeners forget to question these urban legends. Learn about grass clippings, peat moss, and weed fabric.
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Organic Pest Control – Insect Barriers and Traps
Organic gardeners can use safe physical pest control methods such as bug vacuums, row covers, sticky traps, handpicking, cutworm collars, and water sprays to stop bugs.
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How to Grow Potatoes in an Organic Garden
Planting potatoes is easy for the organic gardener who chooses the right potato varieties, and fights pests and diseases with proven natural gardening methods.
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Make Homemade Organic Garden Pesticide
Natural pesticides are cheap and easy to make for the organic garden. Supplement your gardening supplies with these homemade pest controls.
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Online Organic Gardening Resources
Beginning gardeners, experienced green thumbs, and organic farmers can find flower and vegetable growing answers from garden associations and online chat forums.
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Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Organic Garden
Organic gardeners can improve their soil health by learning about the role of mycorrhizal fungi in improving vegetable and flower plant performance.
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Growing Spring Peas in the Organic Garden
Organic gardeners eager to plant vegetables after a long winter must add peas to the garden plot. Peas grow quickly and aren't bothered by many pests or diseases.
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Grow an Organic Cutting Flower Garden
Grow these flower bouquet favorites for home decorating, weddings, or gift giving. Roses, lilies, and other florist flowers are easy to grow without chemicals.
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Manure in the Organic Garden
Use composted livestock manure safely in the organic garden to fertilize plants with a natural source of nitrogen.
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Make Money from an Organic Garden
Organic gardeners who harvest more than they can eat may earn an income by starting a CSA program. CSA members share both the bounty and risks of the small farm.
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Easy to Grow Organic Vegetables
Organic gardeners can choose from several easy to grow vegetables when starting a vegetable garden. Tuck these favorites into the flower garden, or grow them in pots.
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Beneficial Bugs Known as Parasitic Nematodes
Beneficial parasitic nematodes work invisibly in the soil to control garden and agricultural pests such as grubs and fungus gnats.
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How to Grow Organic Asparagus
Devote a permanent area of the organic garden to perennial asparagus plants. This easy to grow vegetable has few pests and increases its yield over time.
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Indoor Composting Methods
Organic gardeners can create odorless compost indoors using modern bins and composting methods. No red worms are required.
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Organic Straw Bale Gardening
Straw bales can allow organic gardeners to harvest large yields of vegetables in poor soil conditions. This no dig gardening method is easy and inexpensive.
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How to Grow Organic Sprouts
By sprouting seeds for their cooking and salad needs, organic gardeners save money and avoid the unsanitary growing conditions of conventional farms.
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Buy and Care for Organic Poinsettias
When the organic garden lies fallow in the winter, many gardeners rely on houseplants like poinsettias to extend their hobby into the winter months.
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Winter Sowing in the Organic Garden
Organic gardeners can experiment with winter sowing methods to start seeds of hardy vegetables, flowers, and cover crops outdoors; no greenhouse is required.
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How to Treat Common Compost Problems
Turn smelly compost bins and cold compost piles into sources of rich organic humus for the garden with these composting tips.
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How to Attract Wild Birds to an Organic Garden
Wild birds can form a partnership with organic gardeners: we give them food and shelter and they give us song and beauty.
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How to Make a Cardboard Playhouse
Use these playhouse designs to create a simple cardboard playhouse from recycled materials in one afternoon.
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Organic Garden Quotations
Organic gardeners can get inspiration and motivation from the garden sayings and environmentally conscientious quips of famous and ordinary people.
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How to Grow Organic Roses
Roses can succumb to many pests and diseases, but the organic gardener can grow these lush flowers without resorting to herbicides or pesticides.
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Composting Supplies for Gardeners
Organic gardeners who aren't getting quick results from their composting methods can speed up the decomposition process with these compost helpers.
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Choose the Best Compost Bin
Gardeners must compare the features of tumbling compost bins, wire compost bins, and plastic composters before buying this essential equipment for the organic garden.
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Fall Gardening Chores
Organic lawn and garden maintenance doesn't end with summer. You can prepare your plants, flowers, and lawn for winter dormancy with this autumn garden checklist.
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Genetic Testing for Disease
Genetic testing for disease holds implications for future screening, health insurance, and even family dynamics for patients.
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Get a Healthy Organic Garden
Use each of these gardening ideas in your natural landscape to elevate the status of your organic flower and vegetable garden from barely surviving to thriving.
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Autumn Host and Hostess Gifts
If you're attending a harvest celebration or Halloween party this fall, bring a hostess gift that celebrates autumn. Hostess gift ideas include food, drinks, and décor.
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Children and the Media
Parents and educators can consider media literacy programs to counterbalance the effects of a child's naiveté when watching television.
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Grow Organic Garlic in the Garden
Reap the benefits of garlic by growing the bulbs in the organic garden. This easy vegetable will supply your table with fresh garlic for healthy cooking all year.
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Black Walnut Toxicity
Organic gardeners that host black walnut trees on their property must protect garden plants from the toxic juglone emitted by the trees' hulls, roots, and leaves.
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The Deer Repellent Organic Garden
Good deer control methods start with prevention. Stop deer damage in your organic garden by growing plants that deer rarely browse.
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34 Things to do in a Carpool Line
While you're held captive in the carpool pickup line, you can organize your life, reduce parenting stress, engage in a hobby, or practice time-saving beauty tips.
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Engagement Party Ideas
Hosting an engagement party is a fun way to honor a newly betrothed couple. Make it special with these ideas for party planning, engagement gifts, and party favors.
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Stop Mildew in an Organic Garden
Powdery mildew and downy mildew damage plants with white or gray patches on leaves, stems, and flowers. Use cultural methods or organic sprays to control these diseases.
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Organic Gardening Shortcuts
Implement one of 26 A to Z organic gardening tips to increase yields, fight garden pests and diseases, and beautify your landscape.
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Caring for a Wildflower Meadow
Organic gardeners can plant wildflower meadows as a low maintenance lawn alternative. However, wildflowers need a modicum of care to improve blooming and prevent weeds.
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Installing a Wildflower Meadow
Put away your lawnmower, and turn your landscape into a sanctuary for native plants and wildflowers. These hardy plants need no chemicals and little care.
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Summer in the Flower Garden
Continue caring for your annual and perennial flower gardens in the summer months to ensure a continuous succession of blooms until first frost.
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Butterflies in the Organic Garden
Butterfly gardening is a rewarding offshoot of keeping an organic garden. Learn about the flowers, host plants, and habitat that attract butterflies to your yard.
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Keeping an Organic Garden Journal
From pest outbreaks to successful harvests, learn how to organize your garden story and record garden ideas in your organic garden diary.
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Grow Giant Vegetables Organically
If you've ever admired a pumpkin that looked like Cinderella's coach or a giant tomato that resembled a softball, learn how you can grow giant produce without chemicals.
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Volunteer on an Organic Farm
You can learn the basics of sustainable farming by exploring internship and volunteer opportunities with these organizations.
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Have a Cheap Vacation at Home
Include a staycation among your last minute travel ideas. Plan a stay at home vacation for your family, save on lodging, and beat high gas prices.
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Breast Cancer Information Sources
New breast cancer patients need updated information about treatment and support. Pick an organization that provides credible information to breast cancer survivors.
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Kill Spider Mites in the Garden
Spider mites infest stressed garden plants and houseplants, especially in summer months. Control spider mites using natural organic pest control methods.
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The Parasitic Wasp in an Organic Garden
Attract these beneficial insects to your organic garden, and take advantage of this natural pest control source.
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Prevent Weeds in an Organic Garden
If you practice weed prevention in the organic garden, you'll never miss your chemical herbicides.
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Get Rid of Ticks
If ticks are preventing you from enjoying your organic garden, you can kill or control these pests without using harmful chemicals.
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Organic Hydroponics Gardening
More than just a novelty, hydroponic gardening systems can be used by organic gardeners to overcome soil and space problems.
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Kill Thrips in the Organic Garden
Tiny but prolific thrips deform flowers and carry diseases, especially in greenhouses. You can control these pests without chemicals with a four-step approach.
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Organic Edible Gardening With Kids
Even the most reluctant child may eat his broccoli when he commands the organic growing process from soil to table.
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Kill Aphids in the Organic Garden
Aphids appear to come from nowhere in the spring, sucking the life from your vegetables and flowers. Control aphids without chemical pesticides.
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Organic Flower Gardening With Kids
The organic garden gives families a place to learn about life cycles of plants and animals using hands-on activities.
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Kill Cutworms in an Organic Garden
If your seedlings look like a team of miniature lumberjacks invaded in the night, you have a cutworm problem. Control these pests naturally.
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7 Reasons to Garden Organically
Seven is a lucky number when you consider these reasons to switch to organic gardening methods.
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Make Compost Without a Bin
Compost is a vital element in the organic garden, so you mustn't let the absence of a bin stop you from harvesting black gold.
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