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• Vegetable Tips

  If there was one simple answer to all your garden questions, we'd love to have it ourselves, but part of the joy of gardening is its puzzles. Still, you can make life a little easier by knowing your garden's character (soil, temperature, sun, water) and by grouping plants together by their needs--too much nitrogen can wilt or encourage blight in some plants, for instance, so don't place them near plants that need heavy fertilizing.

• Mosquito

  Best Natural Solutions to Prevent Mosquito Bites

• Bugs

  We love nature in all sorts and forms, but you've got to admit that while on the one side there are butterflies and crazy beetles so cool looking that we'd use them to decorate our walls, on the other side there are some bugs that are just pests.

• Ants, Fire

  Control Fire Ants with natural solutions like corn grits, coffee grounds and molasses!

• Bats

  Attracting Bats to Your Garden

• Birds

  Understanding what a bird wants and needs is the first step to drawing them into your garden. Trees, shrubs, and large plants like rhododendrons will offer them food and protection that smaller plants cannot.

• Bugs

  We love nature in all sorts and forms, but you've got to admit that while on the one side there are butterflies and crazy beetles so cool looking that we'd use them to decorate our walls, on the other side there are some bugs that are just pests.

• Butterfly Garden

  Like frogs, butterflies are also very sensitive to changes in the environment, and help warn us about unhealthy changes that are taking place. There are 10,000 varieties of butterflies in North America and 120,000 varieties worldwide.

• Canning and Preserving

  A family tradition of making strawberry jam or homemade pasta sauce can be simple enough, but a full-blown canning routine is going to require ample time, money, storage space, equipment, and not a small amount of know-how.

• Composting

  Perhaps you pay per bag or per pound for the amount of garbage you send to the dump. Or maybe your garden could use a bit of enrichment. Any way you cut it, composting is the cool new thing for the fashionable do-it-yourselfer, and the right thing for the planet too.

• Deer Control

  Safe and Harmless Deer Control Solutions for Your Garden

• Earthworms

  Chemical lawn treatments, as well as general environmental pollution, may have killed off your local earthworm population. Frankly, they're too helpful in conditioning your soil and feeding your plants to live without them, particularly in an organic system.

• End of Season

  Among the many steps you can but need not undertake at the end of your harvest season, planting cover crops is among the most important in solving a variety of garden problems. After your regular season harvest, choose a bean, peas, or some other cold-resistant plant to prevent soil erosion and add organic matter to your soil.

• Fruit Trees

  Remember to think of your fruit trees in terms of their drip line -- the full circumference of soil dripped upon by the tree's crown -- then apply mulch (thickly but not in a pest-friendly mound), grow ally plants, and clear tall weeds in that area.

• Fire Ants

  Fire Ant Control natural solutions like corn grits, coffee grounds and molasses!

• Fungus

  Fungus Remedies from Earth Clinic

• Getting Started

  Whether you're thinking about feeding yourself the best of freshies or looking for a gardening hobby without accepting a shed full of chemicals in the bargain, well you're in for a growing season full of pleasure and less toil than you imagine.

• Grass Tips

  Tips on selecting and growing the best organic grass for your lawn.

• Hydrangea Tips

  Although tricky at times in their own right, hydrangeas are favored for their relative ease as well as for their striking blooms. A good spring mulch should support a plant's nutritional needs for the year, and your flowers will suffer more from over-watering than from neglect.

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• Lavender

  Beautiful, aromatic lavender is an herb long treasured in the garden for its appearance, its perfume, as an insect repellant, and by a lucky few even as a flavor of ice cream. Preferring full light and good drainage, lavender can be grown inside and outdoors alike with a minimum of care.

• Lawns

  When it comes to lawns, fertilizer and pesticides are heroin. A quick jolt that leaves your lawn wanting ever more, every chance it can get. More studies are proving that an organic lawn care system, while more expensive and maybe laborious at the start, is much less expensive and less work in the long run--because you're working with nature and not against it.

• Lettuce

  Organic Lettuce Tips for Your Home Garden

• Mosquito

  Best Natural Solutions to Prevent Mosquito Bites

• Moss

  Moss Garden Tips on Earth Clinic Planet

• Mowers

  Lawn Mowing for a Better Environment. Noisy, dirty, and expensive, lawn mowing is always going to be a chore, but why give yourself a headache when you could return to a simpler time?

• Mulch

  By adding mulch to your garden, you will improve the health of the soil, reduce the need for water, keep weeds to a minimum, and improve the appearance of your landscaping. Mulch also keeps dirt from splashing up onto your flowers or veggies when it rains.

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• Organic Pesticides

  Natural solutions for your fruit or vegetable garden.

• Ponds

  Did you know that ponds truly are little worlds of their own? Most are closed systems, with no or little outflow and fed by underground springs. Critters bound to the water are generally stuck with one pond, generation after generation.

• Pesticides, Organic

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• Rain Barrels

  Rather than depleting your state's water supply, use rain barrels to water your garden. You will be helping to reduce erosion and storm water runoff and increase water quality.

• Reel Mowers

  Lawn Mowing for a Better Environment. Noisy, dirty, and expensive, lawn mowing is always going to be a chore, but why give yourself a headache when you could return to a simpler time?

• Rock Gardens

  Tips for making your own, elegant and easy to maintain rock gardens, from Earth Clinic Planet.

• Roses

  Perhaps no other garden plant is as coveted and feared in equal measure. Lovely to look upon, roses are a tricky customer for the gardener, requiring frequent feeding and full sun. Your roses will also benefit from soil that is well drained and high in organic content.

• Seeds and Planting

  Whether your individual plants thrive or wilt is liable to depend on where exactly you place your seeds and seedlings. Location is everything in gardening, finding that proper balance to fit each plant's needs. Knowing the needs of each plant you intend to grow, start early in mapping out your available space for light and shadow, drainage, and soil quality before you begin planting.

• Shade-Loving Plants

  Tips on selecting and caring for your shade-loving plants.

• Small Garden Spaces

  Earth Clinic Planet offers tips on gardening in small spaces.

• Snail and Slug Control

  From the shear number of folk remedies available to combat them, you can easily see what a problem snails and slugs can be in the garden. Their aesthetic failings aside, these munchers can ravage a plant's leaves in no time at all. Prevention goes a long way.

• Soil

  Caring for Soil in Your Organic Garden. Raised bed planting, especially together with the French intensive gardening method of double-digging, can be a terrific option for organic gardeners.

• Sun

  Most likely, you've chosen a nice sunny space for your garden, so your challenges in this area might be more in finding a proper bit of shade for plants that don't do well in the sun's full glare. One option is to plant taller plants all around your light-sensitive crops.

• Ticks

  Ticks are increasingly communicating Lyme and other diseases to people and their pets, but living with chemical baths, collars, and sprays doesn't exactly promote our optimal health either. What sorts of options are out there for repelling or killing ticks?

• Tomatoes

  Everyone loves tomatoes in one form or another. Unfortunately, that includes a wide variety of pests and diseases. Give your plants the best chance at health by maintaining a supportive environment: tomato plants require a continuing supply of natural fertilizer (try manure tea every few weeks as a side-dressing), keep the leaves dry when watering, support the stalks with a cage or stake, and consider solarizing the soil for fungal and bacterial problems (mature tomatoes can tolerate the heat, unlike other plants).

• Trees

  Plant a tree and do your part in the effort against worldwide deforestation. Includes tips on how to water trees in drought conditions.

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• Vegetable Tips

  If there was one simple answer to all your garden questions, we'd love to have it ourselves, but part of the joy of gardening is its puzzles. Still, you can make life a little easier by knowing your garden's character (soil, temperature, sun, water) and by grouping plants together by their needs--too much nitrogen can wilt or encourage blight in some plants, for instance, so don't place them near plants that need heavy fertilizing.

• Watering

  Too much is at least as big a problem as too little water in our gardens. Attack the issue head-on by monitoring and improving your garden's drainage. If your soil is too high in sand or clay content, mix in a little peat humus to increase both soil drainage and water retention.

• Weeds

  You can't entirely prevent weeds without poisoning everything else in the area, so the best alternative is making them easy to pull. The easiest step you can take there is to reduce soil compaction. Till the garden well before planting, walk on the soil as little as possible, think about laying down straw around plantings as a cushion, and add humus to loosen the soil so that what weeds do grow pull straight out without your having to grit your teeth or pull any muscles.

• Xeriscaping

  "Xeriscaping and xerogardening refers to landscaping and gardening in ways that reduce or eliminate the need for supplemental irrigation. It is promoted in areas that do not have easily accessible supplies of fresh water, and is catching on in other areas as climate patterns shift."

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• Zone Finder--World

  "A hardiness zone is shown on the scale to the right; or usually shown on a map... These zones show a geographically-defined area in which a specific category of plant life is capable of growing, as defined by climatic conditions, including its ability to withstand the minimum temperatures of the zone. The zones were first developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have subsequently been adopted elsewhere."