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The Gardener's Bug Book: Earth-Safe Insect Control

by Barbara Pleasant

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Publisher Comments:

Make your garden a no-pest zone!

Use The Gardener's Bug Book — the health-conscious gardener's guide to safely controlling garden pests. Author Barbara Pleasant shows you how to work with nature to reduce garden pests while producing bountiful, environmentally safe, and chemical-free harvests.

The Gardener's Bug Book includes:

-- descriptions of more than 70 common garden insects

-- tips for telling the good bugs from the bad bugs

-- a convenient guide to the pests found on 72 common vegetable and fruits

-- clear illustrations and behavior hints for identifying each insect

-- dozens of easy formulas for making natural pest-fighting preparations

-- instructions for using commercially-available pest controls, including floating row covers, traps, and parasitic insects

Synopsis:

This completely revised and updated garden guide shows how to identify and control more than 70 common garden insects using the best homemade and commercial control strategies.
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About the Author

Award-winning author Barbara Pleasant has written abouttackling some of gardeners' worst nightmares: bugs, plantdiseases, and weeds. Her books include The Gardener's BugBook, The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases, The Gardener'sWeed Book,and Garden Stone,2003 winner of the Garden Writers Association's Garden Globe Award.A contributing editor to Mother Earth Newsand regionalcorrespondent for Gardening How-Tomagazine, Barbara lives in the mountains of western North Carolina. Her website isbarbarapleasant.com.
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Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition

Chapter 1: Insect Control in Your Own Backyard

Chapter 2: Getting to Know Insects: Their Life Cycles, Habits, and Interactions with Plants

Chapter 3: Common Food Plants and the Pests That Love Them

Chapter 4: Common Garden Insects: Identification and Control

Chapter 5: Remedies, Recipes, and Formulas for Earth-Safe Insect Control

Appendix A: Sources for Natural Pest-Control Products

Appendix B: Scientific Names of Common Garden Insects

Appendix C: Basic Equivalents for U.S./Metric Measures

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780882666099
Subtitle:
Earth-Safe Insect Control
Editor:
Stell, Liz
Editor:
Stell, Liz
Author:
Pleasant, Barbara
Editor:
Balmuth, Deborah
Author:
Balmuth, Deborah
Publisher:
Storey Publishing
Location:
Pownal, Vt. :
Subject:
Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
Subject:
Techniques
Subject:
Organic
Subject:
Insect pests
Subject:
Organic gardening
Subject:
Insect pests -- Control.
Edition Description:
paperback
Series Volume:
8
Publication Date:
January 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
160
Dimensions:
8.95x6.03x.48 in. .57 lbs.
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