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
Fern Marshall Bradley · Barbara W. Ellis · Deborah L. Martin
Feb 2010 · Rodale Books
3.0star
2 reviewsreport
Ebook
320
Pages
family_home
Eligible
info
reportRatings and reviews aren’t verified Learn More
About this ebook
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.
Discover information on:
• Your Healthy Garden: Learn how to create a garden and landscape environment that helps plants stay healthy naturally.
• Symptoms and Solutions: 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 Diseases: With hundreds of photos, you can figure out which garden pest, disease, or beneficial insect is in your garden.
• Organic Pest and Disease Management: 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 on:
• Your Healthy Garden: Learn how to create a garden and landscape environment that helps plants stay healthy naturally.
• Symptoms and Solutions: 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 Diseases: With hundreds of photos, you can figure out which garden pest, disease, or beneficial insect is in your garden.
• Organic Pest and Disease Management: 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.
Ratings and reviews
3.0
2 reviews
ramandeep singh
- Flag inappropriate
September 4, 2017
Best book ever but too costly
3 people found this review helpful
About the author
Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara W. Ellis, and Ellen Phillips are all former managing editors of Rodale Garden Books. The three coauthored the 1992 edition of The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control, in addition to having written numerous books and articles individually. Bradley lives in Cambridge, New York; Ellis in Chesterton, Maryland; and Phillips in Brienigsville, Pennsylvania.
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
