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Pest and Weed Management Strategies

7/10/2018

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Next to dealing with late frosts in June, there's nothing more frustrating as a gardener than having your plants munched on by critters. After the effort of babying those seedlings throughout the spring and meticulously planting them in nicely amended soil, it's disheartening to wake up one day to flea beetles boring small holes in your potato leaves, green juicy cabbage loopers taking chunks out of your broccoli leaves, or aphids attacking your pepper plants. 

But as an organic gardener, you know that the last thing I'd recommend is grabbing a bottle of pesticide. Pesticides not only kill beneficial insects and soil microorganisms, they only treat the symptom and not the cause of the pest. So what options do we have instead?

In my video today, I talk about some general pest and weed management strategies that you can adopt in your garden. Rather than going to war with the pests, this approach encourages you to add life to your garden. Click on the video below to learn more!

What pest and weed management strategies do you use? I'd love to hear about them in the comments below! 

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Ellen
7/16/2018 05:43:51 pm

Fantastic information! Thank you, Kareen! I am finally starting to understand the benefits of diversity instead of long rows of the same vegetable in am finally starting to understand the benefits of diversity Stead of long rows of the same vegetable in my beds! Many thx! E

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Kareen
7/20/2018 06:23:38 pm

You're welcome Ellen, glad the video was useful to you!

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Rebecca
3/24/2020 06:12:41 pm

Do you have any advice on how to keep mice from nibbling on strawberries (and such) in our greenhouse?

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Kareen
3/26/2020 07:13:43 pm

Hi Rebecca! Are you able to set traps? That would likely be the most effective. Do you have a lot of them in the greenhouse?

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