Gardeners can plan early control methods to limit the need for insecticides and protect their harvest.

July and August in the vegetable garden typically bring bountiful harvests of colorful vegetables. These are also the months when insect pests can really make their presence known, with plant and ...

Rotating where you plant specific vegetables each year naturally reduces pests and diseases in your soil.

Managing pests and diseases can be a particularly tricky piece of the vegetable farming puzzle, and can leave growers with ...

Researcher touts hubbard squash as being effective against two species. I had the opportunity to attend my national meeting for county agricultural educators this past week. It was wonderful going ...

These companion plants for garlic—including vegetables, flowers, and herbs—can increase your yield and naturally deter pests.

The other day while poking around a Delicata squash plant looking for blossoms, I found a good-sized colony of black bean aphids on the undersides of some leaves. Those aphids are the hardest of all ...

Raising a vegetable garden with years of continuous success and high-yielding plants is a skill. However, it’s not just a matter of having a green thumb. Utilizing crop rotation in the garden can ...

For success in next year’s veggie garden, the smart gardener considers not just the basics, like light and water needs, but what was planted in the space the year before. Crop rotation is all ...

Caterpillars can be cute, but you don't necessarily want them all over your vegetable garden. We have some expert insights on ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...