John’s Organic Garden

Solarize: Kill Disease and Weeds, Improve Yields

We used to believe that certain plant disease pathogens lived in the soil and could not be eliminated. Pestilence like verticillium wilt fusarium wilt were believed to be with us and just had to be tolerated. In the past ten years, some enterprising Israelis came up with solarizing. It is an excellent way to kill weeds, fungus, and general pests that live in your soil. It is all natural and requires no chemicals. Solarizing has been tested at universities across the US and by extension programs all over the country. It must become part of your arsenal in developing ...

15 Steps for Disease Prevention in Your Garden

You have fewer tools for fighting diseases in your garden than for eliminating pests. You get a pest, you pick it off, hit it with insecticidal soap, go after it with natural elimination methods. With diseases, in many instances, your best bet is to to destroy the individual diseased plant. There are very few practical and effective methods to control of plant disease on an individual plant; however, removal of the diseased plant is effective control for your garden as an entirety. Your first step in disease control is being able to recognize the disease and determine the identity of the ...

So Tomorrow I am Putting Up a Scarecrow

[aom url= http://johnsorganicgarden.com/shop.php?c=001&n=1063498&i=B000071NUS&x=Contech_Electronics_CRO101_Scarecrow_Motion_Activated_Sprinkler] I am putting one or two of these up in my garden tomorrow. I'll add pictures then. I put a couple up last year, before the dog fence, and they worked until Clover (my dog) realized that she liked chasing water. Then they didn't work so well. In any event, I love them. A humane way to keep squirrels, possum, raccoons, birds, and deer off of you plants. My zucchini is already getting nibbled and it not two inches high. I'm gonna fix that. But I love the scarecrow. The videos of it in action are hilarious. You can ...

Mole and Vole Control