3 top natural fertilizers for a fully organic garden
Natural fertilizer turns crops into vigorous growers without degrading the environment. Derived from plant, mineral or animal matter, it gives ornamentals and vegetables a powerful boost.
Fermented Tea
Fermenting is one type of decomposition for plant materials. It involves yeast.
Fall, Autumn, the ideal season to prepare your garden
Fall has come, time to unsheathe your weapons to have an astounding garden come spring.
Magic potions from plants… for plants!
Prepare your own magic potions! Infusions, decoctions, fermented tea… take advantage of natural plant properties to easily prepare organic fertilizer and treatments at a very low price.
Organic gardening ABCs – got the basics? We’ve got you covered!
Organic gardening means gardening together with nature instead of against it. Organic growing techniques endeavor to respect soil, plants… and the consumer, too. They rely on vegetable and fruit species that are well-suited to local growing conditions.
Horn meal and dried blood, nitrogen-packed natural fertilizers
N, P, K… does this fertilizer alphabet mean anything to you? These three elements – present in blood and bone meal – are crucial for proper plant growth.
Natural fertilizer for vegetables: source it from the entire Circle of Life!
If you want to stop bloating your vegetables with polluting chemical fertilizers, it is time for you to familiarize yourself with natural fertilizer!
Tansy, a wonderfully versatile plant for the garden
Fermented tea, maceration, infusion, decoction… garden tansy sure shares many benefits! Pest repellent and fungicide, it’s also an interesting flower that fosters biodiversity.
Best types of fermented weed tea – find the one to suit your needs
Weed tea, prepared by simply fermenting weeds in a pail, is excellent to treat plants against diseases. Here are the different types of weed tea and their uses.
Aphids, how to get rid of them?
Aphids are fearsome insects that attack leaves and feed on plant sap. There are natural ways to treat against them. Leaves curl up and become sticky.
Damping off – why do seedlings turn brown and die
When seedlings die off at an early stage in life, chances are it’s due to fungus. “Damping off” is the term to describe this infection.
Fermented horsetail tea, for the orchard and the vegetable patch
Fermented horsetail tea is an effective fungicide that helps avoid most fruit tree and vegetable patch diseases.
Fermented comfrey tea, an excellent fertilizer
Organic gardeners favor it above all others: fermented comfrey tea is one of the most effective organic fertilizers for gardens and vegetable plots.
Fermented stinging nettle tea, both treatment and fertilizer
Thanks to fermented stinging nettle tea, create your own 100% organic fertilizer and parasite repellent! Discover fermented stinging nettle tea
Nettle and tomato – convert weeds into great harvests!
Who hasn’t yet suffered the sting of wild nettle? Far from being a weed, stinging nettle is an excellent ally for organic gardeners, especially for growing tomato!
6 tips to make soil richer – completely naturally
Chemical fertilizers that some gardeners use sure can feed those vegetables in the patch, but not the soil itself!
Horsetail, mesmerizing ornamental patterns
Field horsetail is a perennial that is replete with advantages, but it often turns invasive in gardens.
Techniques to save a poisoned tree
Have you sprayed too much insecticide on your tree? Applied too much fertilizer? There may still be a chance to save your plant. Here is how to save a poisoned tree.
Fermented tea, using weeds to make fabulous organic treatments
Fermented tea from weeds is an effective and environment-friendly resource to fight most insects, pests and plant diseases.
Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments
Fall and Winter are the time to apply various treatments that will help eliminate parasites and fungus from fruit trees. This will reduce risk of disease in Spring.
Septoria, a leaf spot fungus destroying harvests – learn to destroy it instead!
Septoria is a species of fungus that infects vegetables, trees and ornamental plants. In some cases damage is insignificant, in others there’s no hope.
Garlic decoction, technique and timing
Garlic decoctions are an excellent solution to treat most diseases and fungus that impact plants, fruit trees and vegetables in the vegetable patch.
Preparing fermented rhubarb tea
A natural pest control solution, use fermented rhubarb tea during the plant’s entire growth phase. It is also possible to keep using the fermented tea after maceration for
Around the summer vegetable bed
If the summer is hot, watch over the vegetables in the patch and take up these easy and organic habits to ensure you get a proper harvest.
Rust, techniques and treatments to avoid it
Even though the number of fungal diseases called “rust” is very high, they almost always share the same symptom: brown-orange blisters
Eggplant growing at last? Proper care leads to great harvests!
The queen of moussaka and ratatouille, eggplant is among those vegetables we’re happy to meet again in summer. To grow a fabulous harvest, follow our tips on how to care for it.
Tomato early blight, the dreaded Alternaria fungus: alternatives to beat it
This blight is a true plight! Early blight covers tomato plants with black spots, and even makes the fruits inedible. From trying to avoid in the first place, to treating it with natural treatments, discover how to deal with this disease while using only completely organic techniques!
