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Rotate vegetable crops to help control pests, disease and to keep the soil in good condition.

Plant warm season vegetables indoors now for transplanting outdoors in May.

If you haven't done so already set out onion seedlings and perennial vegetables such as horseraddish, asparagus and artichokes.

Cool weather vegetables such as peas, lettuce and radishes can be started now.

Put small felt collars around young cabbage plants to protect the roots from being attacked by root flies.

Sow maincrop potatoes approximately 2 feet apart; to ensure room for development later.

GARDENS AROUND THE WORLD

Natural Garden Remedies

Janice of Edmonton - "When growing tomatoes in pots put a few carrots around them to keep bugs at bay."

samuel of Staten Island, Ny - "When using outdoor soil for potting first place it in a pan in the oven and heat for 15 minutes at 400 degrees to sterilize and purify the soil. Then add a starter fertilizer when it cools to room temp."

Amanda of Woodstock, GA - "For Japanese Beetles: Tap beetle into a bowl of soapy water"

Mary of Dayton, Texas - "I purchased redworms not only to consume our scraps but also to be able to use the castings in the garden mix. It works!"

pat of australia - "I plant marigold and garlic among my vegetable rows to prevent pests. I lemon and soapsuds when I need to spray for pests."

Mar of Canada - "Ever since I found out that used coffee grains are "Garden Gold", I have been requesting bags of the stuff from all the local coffee houses. They are just too happy to hand it over to me. It makes the soil appear rich and black. I even cover my flower beds with it.It works so well and you can't beat the price. I don't know why I have less insects, but I do."

Roz of Ottawa - "plant basil with tomatoes to help each other control pests."

Dorothy of LaGrange, Ga - "I try to use natural balance, and refuse to use pesticides, other than those provided by Mother Nature. I use Mr. Jerry Baker's techniques with unsurpassed success."

anne of nova scotia - "I always plant marigolds in my garden. These flowers seem to help deter those pesky insects that want to devour our planted seedlings. Also, my father would often use a concoction of boiled garlic, onions, and red peper to deter plant-eating animals that may roam into the garden. May even work on the two-legged kind..."

Fran of St. Charles - "Plant Borage near curcurbits to deter squash bugs. It really works! Also, the little blue flowers from the Borage are edible and good to throw in salads or float in drinks."

Doreen of Elizabethown,Ontario - "if you have creepng charlie in your asparragus patch use rock salt it will not hurt the asparagus but will get rid of the creeping charlie"

Laurel of Texas - "I use marigolds around my vegetable garden to deter insects."

Clivia of Cheshire, UK - "Horsetail, sometimes known as marestail, can be made into a tea by soaking it in boiling water. This tea is a natural protection against many moulds and fungi. It will help protect seedlings from damping-off disease."

Chuck of Toledo, Iowa - "I use a variety of means in my garden as remedies or helps. I use row crop cover, newspaper, grass clippings, straw, compost.

I also plant Marigolds,dill and onions in various places of garden. Cukes are grown on trelliss, takes less room and easier to pick.

A idea I have used for several years is: go to a garage sale and find a old food blender, use this to blend down table scraps for use on plants, they love it and the foods break down faster and the added water is great addition,use about 50-50 mix water table scraps.

This year i will try a drip system I found at Wal-Mart, especially on onions and carrots, as they are heavy drinkers, onions have short roots and water keeps them from getting a hot taste and lets them grow larger.

I do a lot of daily handpicking of bugs and keep a bird bath in garden to attract birds that feed on insects.keep the birds happy,they keep my garden clean. I also like to wrap the tomatoe plants with a piece of #9 copper wire as a blight deterent. I use several organic products like Spray-n-grow, and Garden Alive products to make my plants super healthy and large and heavy producers. One plant last year using these products was a Early Girl Tomatoe, I harvested 620 ripe and over 80 green tomatoes from it.it was over 7' tall and first ripe fruit was picked on July 5, very early for Iowa. So I am a believer in organics - constant moisture - and attention to detail"

Shea of Falmouth, Maine USA - "Growing up on a farm in the midwest, I often wondered why our tomatoe plants were about 6 feet tall. It might seem like a "tall tale", but it isn't! My stepfather told me his down-home secret- spread a little pig's blood and the plants will grow strong and hearty from the high nitrogen content. I do it to this very day, and have delicious, plump tomatoes, as well as great corn and leafy greens all summer long at my Maine home."

Dan of Mansfield, TX - "keep clean water for birds, a light shower for them helps too."

John of Westchester County, NY - "Cut back your weeds around your garden as they harbor bugs and bring bugs to your garden.

1 1/2 tablespoons of Fine garlic powder desolved in a 1 quart water (plus a drop of dish soap )spray bottle applied once a week to vegetable plants or after a rain storm will discourage 90 percent of all insects.

Marigolds attract pollinators while discouraging pesty bugs. You'll be especially amazed by an increased tomatoe fruit yeild which will be made possible by putting marigolds along the outside border of your garden.

Start bagging your grass clippings and apply them around your garden vegetables as a mulch (note wait a few weeks after applying any grass fertilizers before you do this as they contain weed killers that may harm your vegetables). Grass mulch can be applied to all path areas. This will slow weed growth and increase moisture in the soil. It gets compressed quickly so make don't worry about how much you put on the ground.

Put a small bird house or 2 near or in your garden he'll take care of a lot of those bugs.

Soaker hoses save flowers, reduces top soil errosion.

Inexpensive inflatable owls can be found at your local Walmart... put it on a post near the garden and laugh at all those silly rabbits who will be too afraid to enter your garden. Move the owl 2 times a weeks so they don't get used to it as being a dummy. Or duct tape a stick with a plastic (paper) plate to its base. The wind will make the owl shake in the wind a little."

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