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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 | 
 enlarge | Creators: Barbara W. Ellis, Fern Marshall Bradley
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $13.01
You Save: $8.94 (41%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (34 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3253
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
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
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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 diseases
Newly revised with the latest, safest organic controls.
A New York Times Best Gardening Book
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
good nic January 6, 2009
this book arrived in perfect condition and very quickly - more quickly than it was advised when I ordered it!
Invaluable resource! December 8, 2008
I bought this book about a year ago. I'm new to gardening and organic methods really appeal to me. This book has been referenced countless times this year for diagnosing problems and what actions are necessary, if any. I highly recommend this book to anyone. It makes organic pest/disease control seem tangible!
Perhaps the Best December 1, 2008
As a farm advisor with an extensive agricultural library, I find this book tops most of the text books I have. I recommend this well-illustrated and educational book to organic crop farmers, and to organic farm inspectors and certifiers. You won't be disappointed if you purchase it.
Great Reference for Bugs September 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a Master Gardener, I get a lot of questions about insects and plant diseases in the home/backyard setting. Unfortunately, bugs have always been my weakest knowledge area, so it used to take me forever to figure out just who the culprit was and the damage it could inflict. This book has been invaluable in providing excellent pictures so that I can quickly identify the critter in question, and understandable text to know what, if anything, to do next. I highly recommend this book for novices as well as accomplished bug people.
 Complex July 28, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
The book was very good from a technical standpoint but more than I wanted or needed. I was looking more for the home remedies to my garden problems. Things that I would normally have in the kitchen, such as soap, garlic, pepper, etc. It did have some of those remedies but there were many more technically more complex and commercially available fixes to my garden problems. I could have gotten this information from reading the backs of compound containers at the the garden supply store.
A good and well researched book but not what I was looking because the title led me to believe it was solutions without chemicals and most of the solutions are what I consider to be chemical.
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