Strategically use certain vegetables in your garden to naturally deter pests and enhance your harvest without pesticides.

Aside from the usual slugs and snails that invade coastal gardens during the drippy fog days of summer, there are a host of other summer critters that love to feed on vegetables and flowers. Some are ...

If you planted a vegetable garden this spring and summer, chances are something might be bugging your garden. Usually in the spring slugs and snails are the most common pests that destroy young plants ...

Gardening is a spiritual experience where many people find peace and comfort in the turning of the soil and growing of plants. Or, it is until you find something truly horrid hiding under the dirt, ...

Thanks to its strong, refreshing scent, this fast-growing herb can act as a form of natural pest control that will ward off ...

Q: How do you keep maggots from getting into carrots, radishes and onions? I run into that problem every year, and I'd like to stop it this year. A: These burrowing pests are the larval forms of what ...

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