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Plants in the garden rarely look as pristine as the images on labels from  stores or websites. All these treatments are perfectly organic and natural!

Western flower thrips, also interested in veggies!

 Western flower thrips

Citrus foot rot, protect your citrus grove from root rot

 Citrus foot rot, also called root rot, is severe but it can be treated

Best types of fermented weed tea – find the one to suit your needs

 types of weedy tea

Pheromone traps, lure insects to their end… with scents!

 Insect pheromone traps

Holes in the garden… and in veggies? It’s the vole!

 Vole, rodent

Aphids, how to get rid of them?

Armillaria root rot, honey fungus, a devastation for all trees

 Armillaria, honey fungus

Invasive bindweed, here is how to get rid of it. Most of all, don’t just pull!

 Bindweed, how to get rid of it

How to rid your lawn of quackgrass (and all growing beds, too)

 How to get rid of quackgrass

Foamy spit on plants: harmless parasite or big problem?

 Meadow spittlebug

Cabbage white butterfly, get rid of Pieris brassicae caterpillars!

 Pieris brassicae - Large white

Potato beetle, strike the striped Colorado beetle early!

 Colorado potato beetle

Natural and organic weeding, which of these methods work for you?

 Natural weeding techniques

Preventing damping off: How to save your seedlings

 Damping off

Damping off – why do seedlings turn brown and die

 Seedling dying

Fermented comfrey tea, an excellent fertilizer

 Comfrey fertilizer tea

Botrytis, a formidable fungal opponent – Fear not! These tips will eradicate it!

 Botrytis gray mold

Shield bugs and stink bugs, not so welcome in the garden!

 What is a shield bug

Wormwood weedy tea, ferment Artemisia against fungus and pests

 Wormwood weedy tea

Bt, Bacillus thuringiensis: how to use this organic caterpillar killer

 Bt, bacillus thuringiensis

Leek moth identification and control

 Leek moth

Diatomaceous earth, a powerful – and natural – insecticide

 Uses of Diatomaceous earth

Pump sprayer, a key tool for gardeners

 Hand pump spray for gardening

Cranefly, harmless Daddy Long Legs… but voracious larva!

 Cranefly, daddy longlegs, Tipula

Nematodes, excellent to target pests directly – and naturally!

 Nematodes for pest control

Fermented stinging nettle tea, both treatment and fertilizer

 How to make stinging nettle tea to use as a pest repellent and fertilizer

Strawberry tree problems, Arbutus leaves with black spots on leaves

 Leaf spot on strawberry tree

Stephanotis, solve its problems for it to bloom again

 Stephanotis problems

Sooty mold, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

 Soothy mold symptoms cause treatment

Problems with sunpatiens? Possible diseases and pests

 Sunpatiens problems

Biological control of Russian olive

 Biological control of russian olive

How to control Russian olive tree, an invasive species in America

Scab, everything you need to know about it

 Scab

Bird vs. Bush – can there be too many birds?

 Can bird droppings kill a bush or tree

Sunpatiens wilting and rotting – treatment and recovery

 Stunted growth and spots on leaves reveal rotting fungus under sunpatiens.

Plants vulnerable to transplant shock

 Plants vulnerable transplant shock

Transplant damage – protect your plant & avoid wounds

 Roots exposed on a plant during transplanting

Minimizing transplant shock – tips & tricks to make sure your plant survives

 Reduce transplant shock

Green manure, use cover plants to fertilize the next harvest!

 Green manure steps to prepare

Black spots on maple leaves, treatment

 Tar like black spots on maple leaf, yellowing and brown around the rim.

Techniques to save a poisoned tree

 Dead tree

European brown rot, rotting fruit, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease

 European brown rot infecting a fruit

Organic treatments for your fruit trees

 Organic treatments for fruit trees

Cypress canker

 Disease killing cypress trees

Bollworms, dreaded caterpillars defoliating vegetables

 Large bollworm on a cabbage leaf with excrements

Chlorosis, yellow leaves that signal nutrient deficiency in plants

 Chlorosis on leaves of a bird-of-paradise plant

Iron chlorosis, identify this disease and heal your plants in a few easy steps

 Iron chlorosis can occur in the tropics, like on this bougainvillea

Fermented tea, using weeds to make fabulous organic treatments

 Wooden bucket used to prepare fermented weed tea in.

Fire blight, a bacteria that flares through entire orchards in months

 Symptoms of fire blight include red, dry leaves

Vinca rotting and dying off, how to treat and save the plant

Garlic decoction, technique and timing

 Garlic and clove on a countertop with a dark background, still life