What’s bugging your tomatoes: 12 tomato troubles
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What’s bugging your tomatoes: 12 tomato troubles

We uncover the top 12 tomato troubles, from whitefly and blossom end rot to fruit fly and blight, with organic controls for each.

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A scent-sational win for chemical-free pest control

The winner for the 2024 Eureka Prize of Environmental Research has developed a new method of pest control as an alternative to pesticides.

How to control disease in organic vegetable gardens
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How to control disease in organic vegetable gardens

Wet humid weather is a recipe for fungal problems in the vegie patch. PHIL DUDMAN shares his tips on how to control plant diseases organically.

Add molasses to your pest control kit
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Add molasses to your pest control kit

Molasses makes a handy addition to any gardener’s pest control kit. You can use it to manage chewing pests like caterpillars as well as root knot nematodes. Here's how.