Pest-Control Quick-Guide

Do you have a pest in your food garden, but you are not sure what it is, or you don't know what to do about it? Here is to-the-point info and photos that give you the answers!

Veggie Patch Basics - 6 (Dec - Jan)

The December to January part of the food garden season is a busy time in the food garden. Veggie Patch Basics - 6 covers this period and aims to help you make your food garden even more productive and successful.

Pink Eye potato flowers

Online Food Garden Chat May 2020

On Sunday 17 May 2020 the Food Garden Group's first-ever online food garden chat took place. We talked about aphids in Brussels Sprouts, biochar, improving soil, weed mat, wicking beds, moving an olive tree and carrots.  See below for a summary of the discussions.

Safe Pest Control - Step 5 and 6

Best-practice safe pest-control for food-gardeners involves six steps (in this order):

1. Make your food garden as healthy as possible 
2. Don’t please your pests 
3. Keep them out 
4. Catch and remove 
5. Is further action needed? 
6. Use a low-impact pesticide 

Step 5 and 6 are discussed below.

Safe Pest Control - Step 3 and 4

Best-practice pest-control for food-gardeners involves six steps (in this order):

1. Make your food garden as healthy as possible 
2. Don’t please your pests 
3. Keep them out 
4. Catch and remove 
5. Is further action needed? 
6. Use a low-impact pesticide 

Step 3 and 4 are discussed below.

Safe Pest Control - Step 1 and 2

What to do about food garden pests if you don’t want to use chemical pesticides? This series of blog posts discusses pest control strategies that result in healthy produce without leaving harmful chemical residues.

Preventing and Overcoming Mildew

Yesterday my peas and tomato plants looked vigorous and healthy.  Today mildew arrived seemingly out of nowhere and my plants suddenly look very ill. Where did the mildew come from? Could I have prevented its arrival? And what can I do to get rid of it? This blog post tries to answer all these questions.

A tomato leaf affected by Powdery Mildew