Hardcover
472 pages
By: Fern Marshall Bradley
1-59486-307-5
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Price: $29.95
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Rodale's Vegetable Garden Problem Solver
With a wealth of information and tested advice, this problem-solving treasure gives gardeners every-thing they need to do battle with garden pests, diseases, and weeds - with safe, natural solutions. Combining a troubleshooting approach with encyclopedic coverage and drawing on the most up-to-date research on biological and non- or low-toxic controls, Rodale's Vegetable Garden Problem Solver features: - More than 60 vegetables, organized alphabetically from asparagus to zucchini
- Individual pest entries on the 30 most common insect pests and how to combat them
- Individual disease entries on the 30 most common vegetable plant diseases - including symptoms and causes and ways to keep plants disease-free
- A problem-solving approach to such favorite gardening topics as seed-starting, soil, weather, watering, crop rotation, fertilizing, transplanting, and season extension
- "Beyond the Basics" sidebars for those willing to go the extra mile to eradicate a problem in the garden in a safe and natural way With numerous tips on prevention so gardeners can spend less time putting out fires and focus instead on producing higher-yielding and more attractive gardens, this will quickly become the trusted companion of every vegetable gardener.
FERN MARSHALL BRADLEY, is a freelance writer and editor with extensive experience in garden and nature books. A former garden book editor for Rodale, she conceived and edited several top-selling titles, including Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening and The Experts Book of Garden Hints. To preview content from this title, click the links below: Sample pages Table of Contents
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ALWAYS in my garden bucket!, 2008-08-25 18:42:26.0
Reviewer: Laura
from Powder Springs, GA USA
Seriously, I take this book to the garden with me every single day! It is a fantastic, thorough resource for planning gardening strategies, and most importantly it provides detailed pest descriptions and illustrations. I cannot tell you how many times I have discovered mysterious eggs on vegetable leaves, an insect or giant population of them hiding on a plant . . . with a quick look at the insect chart in the back and a quick read about that pest, I can determine if they are bad guys or good guys. If they are bad guys - the book will guide you to the best and worst organic controls as well as info on the insects reproductive habits in that part of the year, for example: squash bugs actually can have up to 3 egg laying cycles during the summer - pretty scary, huh? If it is a good beneficial insect, you can pat yourself on the back because you read the beneficial insect entry in the book, and planted flowers, herbs that keep these good guys around and happy!!!
This is not the common gardening book that gives a few lines on plant or pest descriptions...I consider myself a garden book junkie and a novice gardener, and I find myself reading it like a book when I am not using it for quick reference!
Bottom line - I LOVE this book and will never go to the garden without it!!
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