Gardener To Gardener Almanac Pest Control Primer

Gardener to Gardener focuses on natural, organic pest control -- the most common problems among gardeners. For each month of the year, readers are given specific projects & activities, which are complimented by garden-tested advice from both the readers & writers of Organic Gardening magazine.

Month by month, this illustrated volume will help you plan, plant, and enjoy your garden. It's filled with great ideas, nifty gadgets, and secret shortcuts. You'll find: monthly zone-by-zone to-do lists of gardening tasks for lawns, landscapes, flower gardens, and food gardens; how-to instructions and illustrations for essential gardening tasks -- composting, planting, pruning, harvesting, tool care, and garden cleanup; journal pages for your personal garden notes; special record-keeping pages, including a seed inventory and a pantry record; secrets of professional pest spotters, a problem-solving table for the least-wanted garden pests, 14 ways to negate slugs, a compendium of organic pest control techniques, and much more!

In Organic Gardening magazine, the popular "Gardener to Gardener" column is a forum for gardeners across the country to reveal their most ingenious ideas to one another. Now, this unique format is combined with the best of a practical record-keeping tool and a garden almanac, offering readers a gardening book unlike any other on the market. The focus of Gardener to Gardener is on natural, organic pest control -- the most common problems among gardeners. Each month, readers are given specific projects and activities, which are complimented by garden-tested advice from both the readers and writers of Organic Gardening magazine. Journal pages allow gardeners to chart the progress of their developing gardens. Every region of the country is addressed, and readers are given fully-illustrated, what-to-do-in-the-garden instructions for their particular region. Timed for December, when gardeners begin planning for the growing season, Gardener to Gardener will help and inspire them to create their own organic masterpieces.

Provides advice for planning, planting, and enjoying a garden, and contains lists of tasks based on months and temperature zones.

Reveals tricks for starting seeds, creating healthy soil, tending gardens, and taking advantage of the full growing season.

Reveals tricks for starting seeds, creating healthy soil, tending gardens, and taking advantage of the full growing season.

The team at Gardeners' World bring you the ultimate guide to your gardening year, from planning and planting to troubleshooting tips and gardening discovery. Organised by month, this book includes lists, timetables, step-by-step guidance and expert advice for year-round gardening, as well as an informative guide on what to plant when and projects for every season. Complemented by beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and tips from your favourite gardening personalities, The Gardeners' World Almanac will help you make your garden look its very best throughout the year.

With growing consumer awareness about the dangers of garden chemicals, turn to The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control (by Fern Bradley) as the most reliable and comprehensive guide on the garden shelf. Rodale has been the category leader in organic methods for decades, and this thoroughly updated edition features the latest science-based recommendations for battling garden problems. With all-new photos of common and recently introduced pests and plant diseases, you can quickly identify whether you've discovered garden friend or foe and what action, if any, you should take. No other reference includes a wider range of methods for growing and maintaining an organic garden. The plant-by-plant guide features symptoms and solutions for 200 popular plants, including flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and fruits. The insect-and-disease encyclopedia includes a photo identification guide and detailed descriptions of damage readers may see. The extensive coverage of the most up-to-date organic control techniques and products, presented in order of lowest impact to most intensive intervention, makes it easy to choose the best control.

An abridged version of "Common-Sense Pest Control", this guide offers solutions to a variety of garden problems, including aphids, slugs, moles, root maggots, cutworms, powdery mildew, crabgrass, Japanese beetles, gypsy moths and other pests. Chemical controls are suggested only as a last resort.