Hobby/DIY/gardening

Item Description

This book discusses pests and diseases of edible plants.  Plants are listed in alphabetical order, with information on planting times, depth and spacing, temperatures, time to maturity, water, feeding, weeds, yields, harvesting and storage.  The second section provides a wide array of natural and environmentally safe methods to prevent, and reduce damaging insect infestations.  Descriptions and pictures of the many insects that pervade fruits and vegetables are provided.  The section on diseases (fungal, bacterial and viral), provides ample descripion of symptoms, transmission and controls, but emphasizes prevention methods.  The final section on garden management provides in-depth information on soil (including compost and mulch), planting, watering, feeding, weeding and harvest.

"Rodale Press without a doubt has published some of the most practical and valuable gardening guides available. Rodale Press does, however, have a definite bias towards organic gardening. You will probably never find a Rodale book that recommends using an insecticide to solve a problem. What you will find are books that are well designed, easy to use, and jam packed with practical information to help you diagnose your plant problem (and no, we don't own stock in Rodale Press). Rodale's Garden Problem Solver series is an excellent example of the Rodale Press commitment to quality gardening guides.

Since diagnosis is the hardest part of plant problem solving, and the one that gives home gardeners the most trouble, even those of you who are not organically oriented will benefit from the Garden Problem Solver guides. A word of warning: these are not cheap books (they run about $28.00 apiece) but they are hardback books and printed on acid-free (longer lasting) recycled paper.

Unfortunately, the major drawback of the Garden Problem Solver series is that it is not region specific. To get around this problem, when individual diseases are discussed, the authors usually list the general areas of the country that are most likely to have a particular problem as well as the environmental conditions under which the disease thrives." (University of Arizona, Master Gardeners)

Used - very good

Published 1988.  550 pages.  9-1/2 x 7-1/2 x 1-1/2"  Hardback

 

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