Basic Tools for Beginning Gardeners
Here is my list of basic tools for beginning gardeners. Give it the once-over and more...

Bayer Product Labels
These product labels are current in 2007

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Bird Mites - Pesticide Mis-use
Beware of free pest control advice; it can be very expensive.

A client called Dr. Paul Guillebeau with a serious prob more...

Chlordane - Gardening Nearby
For many years, homes were treated with chlordane to kill termites. In 1988, the Environmental Protection Agency banned its u more...

Cool Tools and Funky Fertilizers
Items I’ve collected or that have been sent to me to evaluate:

Tools:

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De-Icers - Damage to Plants
When ice and snow pile up it's not unusual to reach for a deicing product to help melt the frozen stuff. Deicers work by low more...

Fertilizer – Using Old and Lumpy
If you have partially filled bags and boxes of fertilizer in your garage or garden shed, there is no need to throw it away. E more...

Fertilizers – Confused When Buying
I recently saw a description of a fertilizer in a newspaper. It said that a 12 ounce bottle of the stuff provided the same le more...

Foaming Root Killer
From a reader:
We planted a river birch near the house four years ago in honor of my mother after she died. We coul more...

Foliar Fertilization - Pro's and Con's
When and How to Use Foliar Fertilizers
Carl Rosen and Peter Bierman, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
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Green Light Product Chart
The Green Light Company distributes many useful garden pesticides.

The document below lists their products and their a more...

Homeowner Pesticides - Active Ingredients
As if gardening weren't complicated enough, the subject of pesticides adds another layer of complexity.

Beyond all of more...

Image Herbicide Products - Labels
It is difficult to keep up with all of the situations in which herbicides can and cannot be used.

Here is the label fo more...

Insecticidal Soap - Homemade
You’ve probably heard that one of the newest organic insecticides is “insecticidal soap”. Several manufacturers make insectic more...

IPM - Defined
I value the opinion of Dr. Paul Guillebeau, entomologist and pesticide specialist at the University of Georgia. He tries his more...

Labels - Read Before Buying
Some people collect stamps. Others accumulate coins. I collect garden product labels.

I don’t actually collect the lab more...

LiquiVac Lawnmower Oil Change System
I often get products to review. Many of them are quite handy.

Visit my "Cool Tools and Funky Fertilizers" page for a l more...

Messenger (harpin protein) - For Plant Protection
When scientists at Cornell University investigated the response plants have to disease, they discovered an interesting fact: more...

Organic Herbicides
Many homeowners want "organic" choices when it comes to selecting weed killers.

Vinegar (acetic acid) has been touted more...

Pesticide Misuse - "People Dumber Than Us"
California Department of Pesticide Regulation's "TOP 10 PESTICIDE BLUNDERS AT HOME"

None of the following cases result more...

Pesticide Toxicity to Earthworms
by Daryl Pulis, Mrs. Green Thumb

Once called the "intestine more...

Pesticides - Disposing
When my father died a few years ago our family faced a situation familiar to many: disposing of his pesticides. In his more...

Pesticides - Dissipation Rate
If you're concerned about how long various pesticides stay in your lawn, this excerpt from HORTIDEAS gives a good, scientific more...

Power Tools - Vibration Injury to Hands
If you run a chain saw, leaf blower or rototiller for several hours without gloves, your fingers will probably feel numb or " more...

Pyrethrin Insecticide - Homemade
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Roundup - Health Concerns
Good gardeners try to minimize the use of pesticides but one weed killer that has shown a good environmental record since it more...

Science Project - Effect of Vibration on Plants
This is an idea for measuring the effect of vibration on the growth of plants.

Scientists in Japan found that vibratin more...

Science Project - Effects of Vitamins on Plants
This link discusses the research of scientists in India who soaked pearl millet seeds in various vitamin solutions.

Th more...

Sources of Professional-Quality Tools
I did a lot of research before buying a backpack blower recently. My main source of information was Rick Upchurch at more...

Spinosad - New Insecticide
Gardeners are always on the lookout for insecticides that are made from natural sources.

Spinosad is a nerve toxin der more...

Tools (Gifts) - Choosing
I was out working in the garden last weekend, doing final cleanup chores for the winter. I’m a rather haphazard gardener so i more...

Tools (Gifts) - Recommended by Gardeners
A couple of weeks ago I listed several garden tools to which I am particularly partial when performing garden chores. I invit more...

Treated Wood - Sodium Silicate
Radio caller Phil answers his own question!

"A few weeks ago, I asked if you had heard about a wood product that was t more...

Vantage herbicide - Label
It is difficult to keep up with all of the situations in which herbicides can and cannot be used.

Sethoxydim (Vantage, more...

Wood Ashes - Use as Plant Fertilizer
On a cold winter weekend, nothing is cozier than a fire in the fireplace. But when the fire has died, you're faced with the c more...