Böcker av Barbara Pleasant

"Detailed planting and care designs for 24 beginner-friendly gardens, from what to buy, where and when to plant, and how to care for each vegetable"--

Become a Skilled Doctor of Plant Care! This easy-to-use reference fully explains more than 50 of the most common plant diseases -- where they occur, what they look like, what to do about them, and the long-term prognosis for the affected plants. Most important, gardening expert Barbara Pleasant recommends proven organic methods for controlling each disease.The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases features:-- Informal encyclopedia style, making information and answers very easy to find.-- Illustrations that show the techniques for distinguishing between look-alike symptoms of different diseases.-- Cross-referenced list of common vegetables and fruits and the diseases most apt to affect them.-- Loads of facts on symptoms and tips for detecting diseases (including those diseases that are often too small to see).-- Simple, inexpensive organic treatments to halt the spread of each disease and prevent its recurrence.

Now that you've mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more -- to keep your pantry stocked throughout the year.

Offers the principles for improving gardens. This book helps the readers to learn how to: choose labour-saving sites; work with the compostable riches produced at home; help composting critters do their work by balancing ingredients; reuse recycling bin items; keep diversity in the mix; and, customize composting to suit specific garden needs.