GARDENER'S READING ROOM
Fertilizers, Pest Control and Soil Management

Preparing Your Vegetable Patch for Next Year’s Bounty
As you harvest the last of summer’s bounty, it’s time to think about preparing for next year. Read more.

Fall Fruit Tree Care: An Ounce of Prevention
With its cooler days and longer nights autumn is the season to enjoy the fruits of your labors, literally. It is also the time to take steps to ensure that next year will prove to be as productive if not more so. Read more.

New Products for 2008
The bane of the home orchard is hard-to-control apple maggot. Pheromone and sticky traps can be partially effective, but for serious growers the Seattle Tree Fruit Society recommends little nylon “footies” called Maggot Barriers. Read more.

New Products for 2008
Every year Sky Nursery strives to bring you both the tried-and-true products you depend on and the best of the new. Read more.

The Solution for Clay Soils: Gardner & Bloome Soil Building Compost™
If you are looking for a long-term cure for hard clay soils with poor drainage, look no further. Read more.

Soils and Bulk Materials 101
When gardeners talk about their successes, the conversation inevitably turns to the soil. Improving the health and vitality of the soil is the heart of any garden. Read more.

Disease Control... the Organic Way
The Pacific Northwest is a great place to live and garden. The ocean and mountains give rise to a variety of microclimates that allow us an unmatched breadth of plant material. This same wet, mild climate makes our area a great incubator for plant diseases. Read more.

Feeding Mulches, Weeding Mulches
Used properly, mulch can suppress weeds, enrich your soil, hold moisture, improve your soil texture, protect plant roots from erosion and temperature extremes, and immediately neaten your garden beds. Read more.

LifeLink: Add Life to your Soil, Health to your Plants
Scientists have found that the right balance of soil life increases plant vigor and disease resistance, while decreasing plants’ needs for fertilizer and water—naturally! Read more.

Beneficial Organisms in Your Garden
Spring is almost upon us: the time of annual renewal. Perhaps it is also the time to re-think how we garden, how we deal with pest problems and other dastardly garden situations. Read more.

Help! I’m in Dursban Withdrawal!
Yes, Dursban is no longer available and Diazinon is set to go away, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. There are new products that will do an effective job with far less toxicity. Read more.

Cranefly Control
Don’t panic! Controlling cranefly is not as difficult as you think! Read more.

Good Bugs Bad Bugs
It’s spring, and as the weather warms and the daylight increases with each passing day, so does the insect populations in our gardens. Read more.

Organic Gardening. Part 1: Soil Management & Fertility
Modern organic gardening combines the best of time-tested techniques and new advances in knowledge. Read more.

The Battle between Good and Evil . . . Insects
As the days start lengthening, you might find yourself venturing outside checking on your roses looking for the early signs of spring. Read more.

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