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  • How-To

    The Helpful Green Lacewing

    Green lacewings are slender, bright, green-bodied flies that have massive appetites and use their big, sickle-shaped mouthparts to consume soft-bodied insects like aphids, thrips, white flies, and spider mites, as…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Book Review – Good Bug Bad Bug

    Good Bug Bad Bug, by Jessica Walliser, is an indispensable field guide for quickly and easily identifying the most common garden pests and beneficial insects.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    How to Protect Your Garden Naturally

    If you’re tired of fighting pests in your garden, you need to arm yourself with Ed Rosenthal’s new book. "Protect Your Garden" is a troubleshooting guide for growing a healthy…

  • How-To

    DIY Raised Bed (Removable) Pest Gate

    This do-it-yourself pest gate is removable and can help keep out unwanted guests.

  • Article

    Book Review: Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    The Texas Bug Book is a glossary of the most common pests and beneficials around the garden.

  • Article

    Some thoughts on Groundhog Day

    You say groundhogs, I say woodchucks. Either way, February 2 is their special day.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Video: Squash Bug Control

    Here are some organic solutions to control squash bugs, featuring an insecticidal soap recipe.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Pest-Fighting Flowers

    Growing flowers alongside your veggies can greatly help in the fight against pests.

  • Article

    A Gopher in Your Garden

    After watching these gardeners try every back-breaking, mind-numbing thing they could think of to protect their own, I've decided to throw in the towel before I ever break a sweat.

  • Article

    Garlic and Chile Insecticidal Soap Spray

    I have been making this spray for more than 20 years--I don't remember where the idea came from--perhaps an old issue of Organic Gardening or Mother Earth News. I do…