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organics

Curious about organic gardening, without chemicals? I don’t use chemical herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, or synthetic fertilizers. Some of the basics of that environmentally safer practice — including composting and mulching and natural pest control — are in this archive.

soil-supporting advice from the real organic project

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neonic dangers, with the american bird conservancy’s hardy kern

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less work, healthier soil: no-dig gardening, with charles dowding

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an eco-focused fall cleanup, with native plant trust’s uli lorimer

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organic vegetable gardening success stories, with joe lamp’l

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cornell’s climate change demonstration garden, with sonja skelly

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a smart approach to soil care and compost, with annie novak

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fall garden tips, from cleanup to composting to fig-tree storage, from lee reich

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smarter composting (skip the gimmicks!) with u.s. composting council’s cary oshins

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beyond organic gardening: ecological horticulture, with rebecca mcmackin

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science-based companion planting: ‘plant partners,’ with jessica walliser

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fall cleanup with ecology in mind, with doug tallamy

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composting smart (including in a pit!), with ‘the new gardener’s handbook’ author daryl beyers

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growing potatoes organically: when and how to plant, hill and harvest

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grow onions from seed, with seed breeder don tipping of siskiyou seeds

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facing a changing world (plus the power of houseplants): garden trends report, with katie dubow

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which fertilizer should i use? feed the soil instead, says lee reich

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battling mice and voles (but never with mothballs)

soil preparation: 7 ways to make a garden bed

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pollinator plants to make room for, with uprising seeds’ brian campbell

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what garden ‘pests’ are trying to tell us, from eliot coleman’s ‘the new organic grower’

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being ‘moreganic,’ plus growing diverse greens, with you grow girl’s gayla trail

a saner approach to fall cleanup, with the habitat network’s rhiannon crain

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controlling lily leaf beetles, with u. of rhode island’s lisa tewksbury

'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener