Tag: Plant Problems
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Post-Storm Garden Recovery: How to Revitalize Your Garden After Severe Weather
For gardeners, heavy summer storms highlight the importance of being prepared both beforehand and ready for quick and decisive post-storm garden recovery. This article offers guidance on assessing damage, immediate care, and long-term recovery. It emphasizes the importance of quick action, evaluating plant damage, removing debris, caring for broken stems, waterlogged soil, and considering fertilization…
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Natural Ways to Keep Chipmunks and Squirrels Out of Your Garden
Chipmunks and squirrels can wreak havoc on your garden, but there are ways to deter them. These rodents dig holes in search of food or to bury their own stash. You can deter them by offering a distraction of their preferred foods or using decorative stones to cover soil. Companion planting with marigolds may not…
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Your Hardening Off Handbook: Tender to Tough Before Transplanting
To ensure your young plants thrive when transplanted outdoors, it’s crucial to harden them off. This process toughens them up to handle the unpredictable elements outside. By gradually exposing them to wind, rain, and direct sunlight, their stems and leaves become more resilient. Skipping this preparation can result in transplant shock, causing wilted stems and…
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Gnats No More: Getting Rid of Fungus Gnats in Indoor Gardens
Fungus gnats may be tiny, but they can cause big headaches for indoor gardeners. These pesky insects are common nuisances in houseplants and indoor gardens, but with the right knowledge and strategies, you can effectively manage and eliminate them. In this guide, we’ll explore what fungus gnats are, why they’re attracted to indoor plants, and…
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Performing A Garden Year In Review: Analyzing For Future Success
Performing an annual review on your garden can help you (and your garden) to perform better next year, overcome mistakes, and imagine new possibilities for the future. But how do you even start with such a review? There’s a few steps that I go through in my annual garden year in review that help plan…
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Green Tomatoes With Envy
Green tomatoes isn’t necessarily a tomato problem you need to overcome. But as the growing season grows to a close, the question arises: what to do with all those green tomatoes?
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Cabbage Worms: Garden Grazing Gremlins
It is so heartbreaking to spend your time and effort cultivating produce for your table, only to end up feeding the local wildlife. Some garden pests can do their irreparable harm in as little as a single day. Gardeners of lettuce, cabbages, kale, spinach, brussels sprouts, and other leafy vegetables must beware of the dreaded…
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Blossom End Rot, What It Is, How To Fix It
Nothing is more upsetting to a gardener than dutifully caring for your plants only to find issues once the plant has begun to set fruit. Blossom End Rot is one of many common problems gardeners will encounter. It often occurs on common beginner gardener plants like tomatoes. Just because they’re easy to grow, however, doesn’t…
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Common Tomato Problems
Tomatoes are the most common plant for gardeners of all types and skillsets. It is an easy plant to grow and is extremely forgiving to most kinds of weather. Yet even as easy as tomatoes are to grow, they come with a whole host of problems. Fortunately, tomato problems are easy to diagnose. Today, I’m…
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Plant Lice: The Dreaded Aphid
Typically appearing in Spring from late May to early June (in the Northern Hemisphere), aphids are a common but nasty insect that feasts on all kinds of garden plants. Once aphids make their home on your plants, without intervention they kill even well-established plants dead within a month. This post is all about what aphids…