Plant diseases can often be very problematic.  Frequently the only indication of a disease is a plant “symptom” such as yellowing leaves, necrotic (dead) tissue in the leaf or stems, stunting, curling, or some other plant response to the disease.  Unfortunately, other problems can lead to the

We got a great question today from The Thrifty Mama a fellow blogger who is wanted to know about organic gardening and using Safer® Brand pesticides.  She wrote her question as a comment on a previous post “Yard Debris is Not Garbage! Make it into New Soil by Composting”:

“Are these

I have several gardens in Chicagoland. My community garden plot is a sunny patch of clay where I can grow my veggies. I decided we would grow organic. Simply put I didn’t want my wife and I to ingest toxins.

[Even as a kid I had an aversion to poisons, both mentally and physically. I’m

I love the outdoors. As a kid growing up in South Carolina, nature always attracted and inspired me.  Carrying nets and jars, I frequently walked through the woods to creeks or ponds looking for tortoises, turtles, crayfish, snakes, salamanders, frogs, toads, caddisfly larvae (which we called ‘little