Home Gardener's Garden Pests & Diseases
Planting in containers and designing, improving and maintaining container gardens
$22.19
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2016
Summary
Home Gardener’s Garden Pests & Diseases is the essential guide to identifying, targeting, and banishing common pests and diseases from the garden. All gardeners know the disappointment of finding their flowers nibbled, or their prized produce riddled with rust. Armed with this essential guide, you can stop the destruction. Get acquainted with all the common pests and diseases that afflict ornamentals, vegetables, fruits, and houseplants, and learn the best ways to deal with them. The effective options include both biological controls—increasingly popular in the gardening world—as well as the better-known organic and chemical methods. At-a-glance checklists explain which ailments generally afflict various plant types, from roses and rock-garden plants to soft fruits and vegetables.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580117791 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580117791 |
| Author: | David Squire |
| Publisher: | Fox Chapel Publishing |
| Imprint: | Creative Homeowner Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 279mm |
| Series: | Specialist Guide |
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David Squire
David Squire is an experienced gardening writer and editor. Having contributed to numerous gardening magazines he is the author of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books including four titles in the Home Gardener’s Specialist Guide series. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants which, in 2005, was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.
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