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Newsletter Archives - Articles
Helpful articles published by ARBICO Organics in our seasonal GoOrganic Newsletters. These articles are being listed here to help our customers and website visitors gain insite into various gardening and pest control problems and solutions. |
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The colder winter months may not be your favorite part of the year, but most household pets look upon them as the flea free time. Up and coming, whether they like it or not is "flea season."
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Depending on where you live, tending indoor plants may be the only gardening you can do. While not the same thing as shoveling in the dirt, caring for houseplants can fill the void of the human yearning to nurture.
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If your deciduous fruit trees are still dormant, give them a soaking with All Seasons Horticultural and Dormant Spray Oil. Many pests such as aphids, whitefly, scale, and spider mites are best controlled by this wintertime treatment.
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This is a term that you should garden by. It happens every year: You put in the best plants, sow the best seed, and get up the next morning to find them chewed to bits or gone altogether. Slugs, snails, earwigs and other crawling critters are waiting—patiently—for that nice person to put out the tasty plants again.
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Cabin fever can get the best of most folks. It's not just the cold that can do it, but short days and raining too much can just about drive you crazy. It may not be the time to plant, but there's nothing wrong in taking steps to prepare. Often the most overlooked (or intentionally avoided step) is that of effective preparation.
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Nothing ruins a great day outside like getting attacked by mosquitoes! With the itchy skin and now the threat of West Nile Virus, it is import-ant to keep mosquitoes away from us.
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I just had to write to tell you about my experience with a new product from last year— John & Bob’s Soil Optimizer. Last year, my 4 year old son and I decided we would try to grow pumpkins for Halloween instead of buying them at the local grocery store.
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I have always enjoyed spending time outdoors in nature and with pets. In my twenties, I started to develop physical symptoms such as severe chronic fatigue, headaches, and joint pain. It was not until years later that I realized I was suffering from Lyme Disease, an infection carried by deer ticks.
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An old family tradition, dating back to before my grandfather was born, was to plant a tree upon moving into a new home. This is still a very popular tradition practiced by my extraordinarily large extended family.
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Ah, those tasty fruits. Apples, peaches, plums, even grapes!...mouth watering jewels of the season. We love such bounty of the earth, and so do those pesky worms! Have no fear. With a little planning you can have a worm free season by using these tiny wasps.
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One of the most successful biocontrol agents on the planet is Bacillus thuringiensis (varieties Bti, Btk and Btt). It is particularly popular this time of year with mosquitoes on the loose, caterpillars munching away and Colorado Potato Beetles that missed the squish patrol.
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Neem Oil is a wonderful thing. It's extracted from the seeds of a tree with a name that chimes like sweet fairy bells in the ears of insect haters across the land, Azadirachta indica. But the coarser amongst us just call it the Indian Neem Tree.
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