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Organic Garden Insect and Disease Control

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Insect and disease control in an organic garden starts with the soil. The soil needs to be of a good structure full of organic matter and nutrients for your plants to thrive and produce a healthy, productive crop. Plants can change their chemistry naturally to defend themselves from their natural enemies. They do it all the time as when a branch gets broken a plant protects the wound by creating a protective coating over it to prevent pests from attacking it and when an insect starts to nibble a plants leaves a plant can have the ability to change it's leafs chemistry to be less appetizing to the insect. They can only do this if they are strong and healthy. Diseases and insects thrive off of weak or injured plants. Soil structure is essential in having healthy soil. Healthy soil is a proportioned mix of minerals, organic matter , air, and water that creates an environment for life. Life in an organically active healthy soil consists of insects, bacteria, fungi, microorganisms, ...

Tomato Diseases and How to Prevent Them

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It doesn't matter if you are the neighborhood tomato gardening expert, or the newbie that's just learning the ropes, tomato diseases can sneak up on you and ruin your entire crop. The good news about growing tomatoes is that they are one of the easiest crops to grow for fledgling gardeners, but care must still be taken because there are lots of diseases that can infest the garden. Fortunately, proper preventative measures and good garden maintenance should keep your plants healthy and fruitful. In the event of the appearance of a malady, early detection is the best medicine as far as keeping your plants alive for the remainder of the growing season. As mentioned above, prevention is the single most important factor in avoiding problems that may arise in your garden. Wintertime is a great time to do some information gathering regarding diseases that are more common in your particular area. Arm yourself with this intel before going out and selecting your seeds for the upcom...

Organic Gardening - Cultivating a Healthy Soil to Prevent Disease and Pest Problems in Your Garden

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It is all about the soil, the foundation for growing healthy plants that can defend themselves from disease and pest problems in the garden naturally. Good healthy soil is one that can provide for plants so that they can nurture themselves. It gives them the ability to find and use the nutrients that are stored in the soil as they need them. How to prevent soil-borne diseases When plants are grown in soil with poor structure quality, compact, and low in nutrients, they will grow weak and be stressed by nutrient deficiencies. This leaves the plant being an open target, or prey, for insects and diseases. Having a soil that has a good healthy organic structure, one that retains the nutrients and moisture that plants need, along with being well-drained and one that supports the vast complex community of live that is needed to continuously improve the soil's structure while feeding on the pests, along with the disease organisms is very important. Pests and disease organisms...

Composting Used As a Method of Soil Amendment

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Organic Gardening is all about soil, feed the soil so it will benefit the plant life you are growing in your gardens, and as a part of your landscape. Compost is the answer you are looking for when looking for a soil amendment that offers many natural benefits for both the plant life you are growing and the soil you are growing our crops. An excellent healthy organic structure is the key to growing strong, healthy plant life and is its ecosystem. It's what organic Gardening is all about, having a well-balanced soil, so chemicals aren't needed for disease and pest control. Putting together a good soil management plan and amending your garden's soil with organic matter, compost is the key to improving your gardens soil structure. Soil Borne Diseases Management Having a good healthy organic garden soil structure doesn't mean that pests or diseases won't ever be present in your garden, but it will grow strong, healthy plant life that can defend themselves fr...

Use of Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria Biofertilizer in Crop Production

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Nitrogen-fixing bacteria can increase crop yield and play an important role in agricultural production. At present, the most widely used bacteria are rhizobia, and biological nitrogen fixation is getting more and more attention. It will develop in a deeper and further direction. At present, the main strains used to produce this kind of microbial fertilizer are Azotobacter chroococum ; Beijerinckia derxii, Klebsiella SPP., Enterobacter SPP., and Alcaligenes SPP. Mechanism of Action Azotobacter Chroococcum Nitrogen fixation (nitrogen fixation) is the reduction of nitrogen molecules in the process of ammonia and other nitrogen compounds. In nature, nitrogen (N2) is fixed in two ways: one is abiotic nitrogen fixation, that is, nitrogen fixation through lightning, high-temperature discharge, etc., so that very few nitrides are formed; The second is the biological nitrogen fixation, that is, the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia in the biological bod...

Trichoderma Viride Biopesticide Application in Agriculture

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Trichoderma viride is a high-efficiency organic biological agent. It produces antibiotics, nutrient competition, parasitic, cell-wall degradation, enzymes, and induced plant resistance mechanisms, which have antagonism effect on a variety of plant pathogenic fungi. Protection and treatment can effectively control soil spread fungus diseases with dual effect. Use Trichoderma viride products , which can enhance the survival rate of seedling and transplant, keep the seedlings robust growth. It can also be used to prevent grey mold. Efficacy of Trichoderma viride: 1, Through the protection and treatment, can effectively prevent and control root rot, cataplexy, blight, wilt, verticillium wilt, anthrax, and other soil-borne diseases; 2, Improve the soil, break the knot, improve the soil permeability and oxygen supply of the root system; 3. Promote root growth, make crop growth more vigorous and increase crop yield, etc. Mechanism of Action of Trichoderma viride 1. Comp...

Fish Protein Fertilizer- Effect & Function in Agriculture

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Fish protein organic liquid fertilizer is a pure natural fertilizer, It's rich in organic matter, fish protein, peptides, biological polysaccharides, etc. It's also a kind of functional fertilizer, can be used as base fertilizer, topdressing, can be irrigated root, drip irrigation, flushing spray. Fish protein fertilizer with rich organic matter, protein, polypeptide, etc., after plowing soil significantly increased the content of soil organic matter, can rapidly promote the soil microbial breeding, greatly activate the soil nutrient, increase the soil fertility, improve soil protecting fertilizer water retention capacity, the use of fish protein fertilizer can effectively improve soil harden problems, maintain soil fertility. Use fish protein can promote root development, improve photosynthesis , promote the growth of plants, and is beneficial to flower bud differentiation, mature early, and can greatly improve the quality. Spraying fruit trees, the leaves green glow, dis...