Make Cheap Yet Effective Homemade Insect Traps
Sometimes we can turn the insects' desire for food into a trap. Your garden can become a deadly trap for certain insects and yet not be a hazard to you, your family, or beneficial insects. We can accomplish this simply by making the trap attractive to the pest insect. Your vegetables and flowers, because of the color of their foliage, attract certain insects.

Barriers That Keep Pests Away From Your Garden (Part 1)
Using barriers to prevent pests from reaching plants is one of the simplest, oldest, and most effective ways to prevent damage. Most of the methods for protecting plants with barriers are familiar to organic gardeners. However, there are recent technical improvements in materials that make barriers more effective than ever before.

Barriers That Keep Pests Away From Your Garden (Part 2)
Tree Bands: Barriers around tree trunks can be used to prevent pests from crawling up the trunk, so they're an effective control for insects that can't fly. Tree bands can be coated with sticky materials to make them into traps. Tree bands are excellent barriers for older gypsy moth larvae, because ...

Squirrel Power!
Gardeners have one of the most challenging pastimes of all hobbyists. Other hobbies are usually under the control of one person and not subject to the various natural disasters in existence. Model airplanes don’t worry about being caught in a storm on their trip through the living room. Cross stitchers don’t have to fear wild animals coming and devouring their work (unless they have a cat with a gigantic appetite).

Wabbit Season! Holding the Hares at Bay
I had come home from work, ready to take a taste of the glorious head of broccoli that I had had grown. When I arrived, I found it chewed down to a small green nub poking out of the mulch. Apparently, a family of rabbits had taken it upon themselves to make a feast out of my work. Words cannot describe the ire that I felt toward the hideous beasts. And so, as is my Constitutional right, I took up my arms and stood guard to defend my property against the invading hare force.