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Organic Gardening Information Blog

Organic Gardening Information Blog provides you with information you can use right away to grow your own vegetables in a way that is safe for you, your family and the environment.

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May 8, 2008, Sources for Garden Seeds

If you're looking for vegetable seeds to plant this year in your organic garden - check out our Organic Gardening Information Directory seed category.

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May 8, 2008, Your Soil

Organic gardening soil health is the most important aspect of your garden

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May 8, 2008, Cutworm

The Cutworm attacks all garden vegetables, especially new seedlings and transplants.

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May 6, 2008, Wine Growers Join Forces With Insects

California's wine growers are ditching pesticides and fungicides to battle cutworms, leafrollers and Dagger nematodes and switching to natural predators. The California Association of Winegrape Growers and the Wine Institute are encouraging vintners statewide to participate in a five-year-old Sustainable Wine growing Program. The San Francisco Chronicle reports "vintners are turning increasingly to natural predators as allies," with "more than 1,165 wineries and growers" currently abandoning chemical pesticides and adopting organic practices and Integrated Pest Management -- a strategy first introduced by University of California researchers in 1959. In addition to relying on ladybugs, wasps and other natural predators, winegrowers are using natural compost instead of synthetic fertilizers, planting cover crops, and creating habitat to encourage insect and plant biodiversity.

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Apr 22, 2008, 10 Additional Container Gardening Resources

Container gardening is fun and very easy. We've added more resources to our Organic Gardening Directory. Check them out!

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Apr 21, 2008, Organic Gardening Information Directory

Organic Gardening Information Directory - Human Edited Web Directory with organic gardening related websites. Lots of new listings!!!!

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Apr 19, 2008, Growing Organic Vegetables

Growing Organic Vegetables

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Apr 16, 2008, Organic Fertilizers for Organic Gardening

Organic Fertilizers - The difference between organic gardening and chemical based gardening is philosophy and approach.

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Apr 16, 2008, Gardening Information Search

Providing organic gardening information search capabilities for all your organic gardening information needs.

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Apr 16, 2008, Organic Gardening Compost

Organic gardening compost is food for your soil - supplying and replenishing all the important nutrients that your soil needs for healthy crop growth and increase insect pest resistance.

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Apr 16, 2008, Organic Gardening by the Moon

Organic gardening by the moon is a subtle refinement to your organic gardening practice.

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Apr 8, 2008, Cool New Link Added

Grandma is all about saving money and natural or organic things. "Pennypinching Grandma" is required for survival in any day and age. Many people don't realize that gardening organically, in most cases, is less expensive than they think..this site proves that!

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Apr 4, 2008, Free Organic Gardening Compost eBook!

Now you can take OrganicGardenInfo's valuable Composting guide with you.

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Mar 29, 2008, Hoof and Horn Meal Organic Fertilizer

Hoof and Horn Meal organic fertilizer is a great source of nitrogen (12%) for your organic garden plants, especially your high feeders like corn, tomato and lettuce.

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Mar 29, 2008, Growing Rutabagas

Growing Rutabagas is thought to have originated in the Middle Ages. The Rutabaga prefers a cool, long growing season.

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Mar 13, 2008, Growing Tomatoes

Growing Tomatoes from seed is easy. You can also purchase seedlings from local nurseries and get an even faster start.

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Mar 11, 2008, One of the most toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative pesticides ever registered.

EPA has stopped the use of lindane in agriculture, calling it "one of the most toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative pesticides ever registered." Yet FDA continues to allow lindane use in shampoos used on children.

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Nov 20, 2007, Honey Bee

Orchards are especially dependant on the honey bee for pollination.

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Nov 20, 2007, European Apple Sawfly

European Apple Sawfly larvae attacks apples mining through the fruit, leaving a trail of dry material, or sawdust, on the surface of the fruit.

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Nov 20, 2007, Green Lacewing

Both the adult and the larvae Green Lacewing will eat Aphids, various larvae, and the eggs of other insects.

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Nov 20, 2007, Encarsia formosa

The Encarsia formosa female searches for Greenhouse Whitefly nymphs and pupae on foliage, and lays its eggs in each.

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Nov 20, 2007, Bean Aphid

Bean Aphid prefer bean, beet, chard, pea, rhubarb, and spinach.

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Nov 19, 2007, Yellow Jacket

The adult Yellow Jacket feed on pollen, nectar, and small insects. They capture the insects to feed their young.

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Nov 19, 2007, Walnut Caterpillar

The Walnut Caterpillar attacks apple, peach, pecan, and walnut plants by eating the leaves.

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Nov 19, 2007, Trichogramma Wasp

The Trichogramma Wasp is a parasite inside the eggs of other insects.

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Nov 19, 2007, Tachinid Flies

The Tachinid Flies feed on nectar and honeydew. The larvae are internal parasites of such insects as beetles, bugs, Caterpillars, grasshoppers, and sawflies.

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Nov 19, 2007, Striped Cucumber Beetle

The adult Striped Cucumber Beetle chews on leaves and flowers and carry Bacterial Wilt and cucumber mosaic, while the larvae feed on stems and roots.

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Nov 19, 2007, Spring Cankerworm

The Spring Cankerworm attacks apple plants by feeding on foliage, often dangling from silk threads.

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Nov 19, 2007, Soldier Beetle

Soldier Beetle's diet consists of aphids.

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Nov 19, 2007, Slugs and Snails

Slugs and Snails may graze off young seedlings. More commonly, they climb larger plants and chew holes in the leaves.

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