Our Top-5 Summer Gardening Tips
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A roundup of our top-5 summer gardening tip articles to help you grow your best organic garden ever!
Ahhh… summer gardening
It’s getting hot outside. Your garden is taking off with plants seemingly doubling in size overnight.
Bees, butterflies, and insects are buzzing around everywhere, including some insects that seem to want to eat your plants just as much as you do. Peak season for certain plant diseases is also fast approaching.
It’s one of life’s most gratifying experiences to see your time and effort pay off to the tune of a full harvest basket full of delicious homegrown produce from your garden.
While gardening is incredible rewarding, it can also sometimes be frustrating. It’s always heartbreaking when you find your plant babies have been killed by pest insects or diseases.
We’re here to help make sure you have more gardening success and less heartbreak! This roundup of our five favorite summer gardening articles are full of tips to help you grow your best summer garden ever:
GrowJourney’s Top 5 Gardening Tip Articles For Summer Gardening
1. Top 5 Ways To Prevent Or Stop Plant Diseases In Your Organic Garden
Unlike with cool weather gardening season, warm weather wakes up lots of pathogenic microorganisms that can wreak havoc on your garden plants. Here’s how to reduce the prevalence and severity of most plant diseases using organic gardening methods.
2. How To Work With Insects To Grow An Amazing Garden
On one acre of healthy land, there are 400,000,000 insects. Thankfully, 95% of them are beneficial or benign — and the good ones can help you control the pests.
What does this mean for you if you want to be an organic gardener? You need to learn how to work with insects to get better production and less pests in your summer garden.
3. How Much and When to Water To Get Your Plants Established
We hear this question a lot: “how much do I water my seedlings after I transplant them into my garden?”
Knowing how much to water your new plants to get them established can have life or death consequences for your plants. This article will answer all your plant watering questions.
4. How to Make Strong Tomato Cages (and cages for other plants)
Tomato cages you get from the garden center tend to be too short and too flimsy. We’ll show you how to make strong tomato cages that can last for decades.
Yes, these tomato cages work for other plants too.
5. Six Ways to Prevent or Stop Squash Vine Borers
Squash vine borers are perhaps the most hated of all garden pests for anyone who lives east of the Rocky Mountains. Squash vine borers can turn healthy squash plants into limp, dead squash plants seemingly overnight.
If you live in the right half of the United States, this means you should learn how to control squash vine borers using organic methods so you can enjoy summer squash all season long.
If you have any summer gardening questions, please ask us in the comments section below!
