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The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals | 
| Creators: Barbara W. Ellis, Fern Marshall Bradley Publisher: Rodale Books Category: Book
List Price: $21.95 Buy Used: $10.99 You Save: $10.96 (50%)
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Rating: 28 reviews Sales Rank: 616
Media: Paperback Edition: Revised Pages: 544 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 1
ISBN: 0875967531 Dewey Decimal Number: 635.049 EAN: 9780875967530 ASIN: 0875967531
Publication Date: May 15, 1996 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Over 600,000 Feedbacks Posted!!! Great Buy!!!*** Never Used*** May Have a Publisher's Mark~We have over 3,500,000 Books Sold!!!
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Product Description
End your worries about garden problems with safe, effective solutions from The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control!* Easy-to-use problem-solving encyclopedia covers more than 200 vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs* Complete directions on how, when, and where to use preventive methods, insect traps and barriers, biocontrols, homemade remedies, botanical insecticides, and more* More than 350 color photos for quick identification of insect pests, beneficial insects, and plant diseasesNewly revised with the latest, safest organic controls.A New York Times Best Gardening Book
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Excellent reference for "natural" pest control! July 8, 2008 Bures 98 (Puerto Rico) Living in the tropics, I have had frequent failures starting up my organic garden due to pests taking it over. This year I have used some tips and "natural pesticide" recipies from this book with great success. It has also helped me identify "good" versus "bad" insects so I can better assess what treatment, if any, to use. I strongly recommend this book to anyone trying to start an organic vegetable garden!
Excellent reference book July 2, 2008 K Watson (Mississippi) Have referred to this book numerous times for specific problems that I've have in my garden and find it to be very helpful. It covers many plants and every pest and disease that you can imagine. It has separate sections on plants and pest/diseases.
Great book. June 18, 2008 CAM (Jacksonville, NC) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great information on many different subjects. It would be helpful if it had more color pages with pictures of the actual bugs (which is has some of these but I needed more). It has many different places to look up things that you find yourself easily drawn into other subjects you were not looking for. It has plants seperated by diseases, or by insects that attack them. A ton of information on how to do an organic garden with sacrifical plants, a few home brewed help receipes, and lots of information for the new gardener, plus some wise parts for the small home farmer. Something for everyone and easy to read and understand.
The perfect handbook June 14, 2008 Annie (Campinas, Brazil) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book really is complete, easy to consult and delightful to page through. I live in a tropical area outside the US and was afraid the book might not cover the (many) pests we withstand here. But they were all there, and were referred to attacks against tropical foliages, which actually amazed me! The detailed pictures of insects and disease symptoms are accompanied by an informative text, and the chapter on organic controls covers cultural procedures, physical control, biological control and organic sprays and dusts, both commercial and homemade, with recipes. The structure is perfect for a handbook, easy to consult in any situation, be it garden design, crop choice, regular maintenance or solution of installed problems.
Very Good Reference April 21, 2008 Kevin Guru (Irving, TX USA) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the organic gardener, this is a must have for your reference library. Very informative and comprehensive.
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