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The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way
An invaluable, easy-to-follow guide for growing and maintaining an organic garden with information on 200 popular plants, including flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and fruits, as well as preventative measures and treatments for common ailments.
One of the rewards of organic gardening is developing a balanced ecosystem, in which plants naturally defend themselves against pests and diseases and where you’ll seldom have to intervene. But if trouble does make its way into your garden, this comprehensive handbook will help you stop insect pests in their tracks and curb plant diseases at the first sign of outbreak.
Featuring science-based recommendations for keeping plants healthy and productive, The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control includes hundreds of organic techniques and products for dealing with garden problems. You’ll learn how to decide whether you need to treat an infestation or outbreak, how to make choices among the numerous safe, natural options available, and how to use these home remedies and nontoxic control products and methods.
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• Your Healthy Learn how to create a garden and landscape environment that helps plants stay healthy naturally.
• Symptoms and Use these troubleshooting tips for more than 200 types of plants, including annuals, bulbs, fruit trees and bushes, herbs, perennials, shrubs, trees, and vegetables.
• Identifying Pests and With hundreds of photos, you can figure out which garden pest, disease, or beneficial insect is in your garden.
• Organic Pest and Disease Discover the best and lowest-impact controls to keep pests and diseases from ruining your harvest and your plants.
By creating a healthy garden environment and keeping a watchful eye, you can rely on completely natural methods to manage a wide range of common insect and disease problems in your garden, yard, and landscape.
One of the rewards of organic gardening is developing a balanced ecosystem, in which plants naturally defend themselves against pests and diseases and where you’ll seldom have to intervene. But if trouble does make its way into your garden, this comprehensive handbook will help you stop insect pests in their tracks and curb plant diseases at the first sign of outbreak.
Featuring science-based recommendations for keeping plants healthy and productive, The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control includes hundreds of organic techniques and products for dealing with garden problems. You’ll learn how to decide whether you need to treat an infestation or outbreak, how to make choices among the numerous safe, natural options available, and how to use these home remedies and nontoxic control products and methods.
Discover information
• Your Healthy Learn how to create a garden and landscape environment that helps plants stay healthy naturally.
• Symptoms and Use these troubleshooting tips for more than 200 types of plants, including annuals, bulbs, fruit trees and bushes, herbs, perennials, shrubs, trees, and vegetables.
• Identifying Pests and With hundreds of photos, you can figure out which garden pest, disease, or beneficial insect is in your garden.
• Organic Pest and Disease Discover the best and lowest-impact controls to keep pests and diseases from ruining your harvest and your plants.
By creating a healthy garden environment and keeping a watchful eye, you can rely on completely natural methods to manage a wide range of common insect and disease problems in your garden, yard, and landscape.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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March 23, 2023
Research purposes.
March 5, 2012
Awesome book full of useful information. It takes awhile to read and process the information. I borrowed it through my local library but it would be worth buying to have the wealth of information handy.
July 25, 2013
I really like this book. I found it very comprehensive and informative. I also like that it gave cultivars that were disease resistant if you have a reoccurring problem. This is one for the book shelf and a go to for answers
September 10, 2012
This is a great resource for organic homesteaders. Great info about common pests and diseases with photos of all and info for several organic options for treating the problem.
October 14, 2021
A constant reference on my garden bookshelf.
May 27, 2022
Great resource reference book on garden diseases and pests. It’s a book that you will want to refer to every now and then.
December 18, 2022
useful information.
July 20, 2012
Don't look at this book while eating. Too many pictures of bugs. I only used it to look up a few problems I've encountered. I liked how easy it was to use and how thorough the information was.
April 6, 2017
The organic handbook of natural pest and disease control has a great deal of information in it but no illustrations. I feel illustrations help the reader better understand just what the author is trying to explain.
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