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Treating diseases and pests - page 3

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!

Earwig, fearful pinchers we can rejoice about!

 Earwigs on a yellow flower

Ladybug, the assistant gardener

 Ladybug in garden

The ladybug lifecycle, helping us out at every stage

 Ladybug: the lifecycle of this precious garden assistant

Allium leaf-mining fly, techniques and treatments to avoid and cure the disease

 Leaf miner symptoms on an allium leaf

Sycamore lace bug, organic treatments to control it

 Beautiful but deadly, the sycomore lace bug can kill a tree

Green lacewing, the genesis of aphid lions

 Green lacewing adult on flower

Preparing fermented rhubarb tea

 Rhubarb, fermented, is excellent pest-combating tea

Fruit flies, how to fight them

 Fruit fly, yellow, on bright green leaf with black background.

Tomatoes without diseases

 Tomato plant with no disease

Treatment against Otiorhynchus larvae

 Otiorynchus larva in the ground, like a short white worm or caterpillar

Avoiding mold on food

 A plate with molding food like apples, prunes and tomato.

Tomato early blight, the dreaded Alternaria fungus: alternatives to beat it

 Black necrosis on leaves with a yellow border are the marks of alternaria, or early blight, on tomato plants

Aphids and ants on hibiscus killing off flower buds

 Aphids on a hibiscus flower